The Case for Spanish -- A Letter of Hope

[Abriael]

I'm Italian, and honestly I'd hate for SE to waste resources to translate the game in my language. Their Italian translations are unsightly anyway.

To be completely honest, people, I feel the focus should be elsewhere. In this day and age if you aren't fluent in English, you should *really* learn it. And playing games in English is a good way to start.

That's how I started when I was 6, and localizations didn't exist.

[Vilhem]

I'm a native Spanish speaker as well, and while I absolutely abhor most Spanish translations (especially Spanish as in actually from Spain *shudders*), I believe it would be really nice for a great deal of players around the world. Some of my friends, RL ones especially, have had a pretty hard time with the game because of that language barrier.

(Also, how it is translated into German yet not Spanish is beyond me)

Yeah same here. A lot of my Spanish speaking friends have a functioning level of English, but not the kind of level needed to enjoy some of the lore (especially the pirate lingo in Limsa lol). Would love to have them be able to play this game and enjoy it in a language they can comprehend better.

[Shougun]

Yeah same here. A lot of my Spanish speaking friends have a functioning level of English, but not the kind of level needed to enjoy some of the lore (especially the pirate lingo in Limsa lol). Would love to have them be able to play this game and enjoy it in a language they can comprehend better.

Dont worry - no one can undestand the pirates in limsa. When I was vacationing in Taiwan I understood Taiwanese (never learned) better then I understood that stuff.

[Vilhem]

Hahaha! Too true too true. I just about died when one of the elf pirates called me a "tosspot", then when I repeated in my linkshell everybody was like, "Huh?"

[Allesasi]

Seria bueno que tuvieramos nustro porpio server en ves de estar separados siempre.

[Vilhem]

Seria bueno que tuvieramos nustro porpio server en ves de estar separados siempre.

Hablas en serio? >.> No hay razon que tengamos nuestro propio servidor si todos los demas estan desparramados igualmente entre los servidores. No somos los unicos

[Aethelinda]

Seria bueno que tuvieramos nustro porpio server en ves de estar separados siempre.

Si, la verdad no creo que haya necesidad de eso. Terminariamos en un servidor con muy pocas personas. Por lo menos yo, prefiero la diversidad. Tengo muchos amigos de diferentes regiones como para sacrificar eso por un servidor donde hablan mi idioma.

Deverdad no hay muchas personas de habla hispana en estos juegos como para tener un servidor o llenarlo completo. Si algo, la mayoria vienen de España y ya ellos caerian en un servidor Europeo en el futuro.

Aqui lo unico que se esta pidiendo es que pongan el idioma Español.

[Allesasi]

Seria bueno verlo antes de jusgarlo.

[Klefth]

Nah, no creo que sea buena idea segregar aún más a la comunidad. El aspecto internacional de este juego (y el XI) es uno de los pro que siempre ha tenido. Yo esperaría que eso se conserve. Sí sería bueno tener una interfaz y dialogos en español para algunos, pero ¿un servidor propio? Nah.

[Rabntah]

to distant people with dedicated server? are you serious whith what are you saying?

People will choose what to do, and MMO uses to make people together, take a look on linkshells and actual servers. Why most of Ragnarok is spanish?

To have another language doesn't make people dsitant within them, just help people that can't understand the story to be abble to enjoy it. English speakers don't have any trouble with others because their languaje is used to mediate within other languages.

Don't you use autotranslate when you can't talk with someone with another languaje that you not even understand?
Like some japanese players that don't speak english at all. Do you think all people have english notions?

I'm sure you enjoy playing with all, and language
All the spanish people I know that want to play it and don't do it is because they don't like to play non translated games.
Most of spanish players not play a non translated Offline RPG because story is 100% for RPG players.

Most of the spanish comunity playing here, have low english or none, and are helped by the ones that understand better.
You can ask any other player if not noticed when a spanish is within them when playing.

And about sales, you have only to ask anyone of your friends why they played WoW instead FFXI.
Quality? Let me laugh.