The Case for Spanish -- A Letter of Hope

[Irana]

Good to see more Spanish speaking people are joining the game!

Saludos desde Argentina!!!

[acidmax]

Number of native speakers of the top languages

1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion)
2. English (330 million)
3. Spanish (300 million)
4. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
5. Portuguese (220 million)
6. Arabic (200 million)
7. Bengali (185 million)
8. Russian (160 million)
9. Persian (149 million)
10. Punjabi (130 million)
11. Japanese (125 million)
12. German (90 million)
13. Javanese (80 million)
14. French (75 million)

Unfortunately Portuguese / Spanish ​​are two languages always set asaid even though they have more speakers that French and German together.

One exception is Blizzard who has always had the WOW version in Spanish and most recently in Portuguese.

Portuguese player.

[vax]

No veo la hora para que se pueda hacer world transfer y juntar a todos los argentinos.

[Lienn]

Number of native speakers of the top languages

1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion)
2. English (330 million)
3. Spanish (300 million)
4. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
5. Portuguese (220 million)
6. Arabic (200 million)
7. Bengali (185 million)
8. Russian (160 million)
9. Persian (149 million)
10. Punjabi (130 million)
11. Japanese (125 million)
12. German (90 million)
13. Javanese (80 million)
14. French (75 million)

Unfortunately Portuguese / Spanish ​​are two languages always set asaid even though they have more speakers that French and German together.

One exception is Blizzard who has always had the WOW version in Spanish and most recently in Portuguese.

Portuguese player.

This is in part still the culture of "only north hemisphere counts". The most of spanish/portuguese speaking nations are at latin america and africa, still considered by northern cultures as "not economically active markets" if compared to north america, EU and Asia. This culture is slowing going down, but i'd expect at least another 5 years before the official language choices reflecting their real market.

I do support the idea of having as many languages as possible ingame since a RPG can only be fully experienced if the player fully understand the texts. It would be great for SE to add more languages to their games because not only it would have even better acceptance for those who don't speak well one of the availble languages but also would be a great way to get closer to the playerbase.

After all, if the players are offering to help with this, why not accepting the help?

[Barik]

Please SE, listen to us, we are a huge community right now, but it could be giant if you transalte the game!
There is a lot of people who love final fantasy series and would play this game, but the language is a problem for most of them. And, even knowing the language, we lost many details of the story... and I think that those details are what makes a final fantasy, so we are loosing a big portion of the game experince

Porfavor SE, escuchanos, ya somos una comunidad enorme, pero podría ser gigante si traducís el juego!
hay un montón de gente que adora la serie final fantasy y que jugaría a este juego pero para muchos el idioma es un problema. E, incluso conociendo el idioma, nos perdemos muchos detalles de la historia... y yo creo que los detalles es lo que hacen a un Final Fantasy, asi que estamos perdiendonos gran parte de la experiencia del juego

[Nynnde]

SE please read our request, I soi member of Spanish blood in Besaid server. both Spanish and Italian should present in their translation time we are willing to pay a little more for the TRANSLATION. SE looks at the record sales of mmo Wow Spain because of its TRANSLATION. final fantasy all who came to Spain came translated into Spanish, because this is not final fantasy? Please read our letter

[Cyhlraw]

Español:
Creo que aunque no están obligados a traducir el juego, ya que están empezando con un nuevo proyecto (2.0) podrían traducir el juego por completo. No entiendo por que no traducen el juego cuando traducen el resto de Final Fantasy que llegan a europa.

English:
I think that they are not required to translate the game, they could translate all the game now that they are starting a new project (2.0). I don't understand why they don't translate this game when they translate the rest of Final Fantasy when they reach to europe.

My english isn't really good so I apologize.

[Ruisu]

Being a Spanish speaker myself, I can say that I am for the option of translating the game to Spanish, but not stop there. However, I don't think this is one of Square's concerns at the moment. Perhaps for the release of 2.0 we can see a Spanish/Dutch/Russian/Korean/etc translation, I just don't see it being at the top of Square's priority list.

Plus it'll encourage Russians/Spanish speakers to use auto-translate, because it's kind of annoying not being able to speak with them at all.

[FreyjaAzeyma]

SE please read our request, I soi member of Spanish blood in Besaid server. both Spanish and Italian should present in their translation time we are willing to pay a little more for the TRANSLATION. SE looks at the record sales of mmo Wow Spain because of its TRANSLATION. final fantasy all who came to Spain came translated into Spanish, because this is not final fantasy? Please read our letter

Soy Freyja Azyema de Besaid, miembro de Sangre Hispana y apruebo este mensaje!!!!!!!!
jajaja ^^ Nynn

[Asgard]

SE please read our request, I soi member of Spanish blood in Besaid server. both Spanish and Italian should present in their translation time we are willing to pay a little more for the TRANSLATION. SE looks at the record sales of mmo Wow Spain because of its TRANSLATION. final fantasy all who came to Spain came translated into Spanish, because this is not final fantasy? Please read our letter

¿Veis lo que pasa por usar Google translator?