We need better comunication with the Community team

[Remedi]

I'm def not happy that they are removing the translations of the Live letters from here onwards.
I know that they said they want to post a digest earlier but frankly it's not an ideal situation.
They should work towards making the Live letters understandable to non japanese players too, since imho japanese players can actually watch a eng live letter and understand it, while we are kinda shafted till a translations is done.
I'm not going to save that I'm not grateful for the unofficial translations because they are doing one hell of a work, but I think that non JPN having an official live translation of a Live letter would only be a fair treatment.

[Alleo]

I'm def not happy that they are removing the translations of the Live letters from here onwards.

Wait what?? They are removing that too? Can we then just stop with Live letters at all?

Square Enix more than half of your playerbase is from NA and EU...stop thinking just about your JP playerbase...

Really this is just getting worse..now we even need to rely on fan translations with an official live letter..

[Tridus]

The lack of translation on the live letters sucks. Why even bother advertising it to us when it's effectively meaningless to the audience? Might as well just advertise the fan translation page on Reddit.

It's not a good look at all when the view that they already pay less attention to us than Japan is so widespread.

[Remedi]

The lack of translation on the live letters sucks. Why even bother advertising it to us when it's effectively meaningless to the audience? Might as well just advertise the fan translation page on Reddit.

It's not a good look at all when the view that they already pay less attention to us than Japan is so widespread.

YES! YES! I even forgot about them advertising LL in-game. They really ought to step up on this.

[Hestzhyen]

The lack of translation on the live letters sucks. Why even bother advertising it to us when it's effectively meaningless to the audience? Might as well just advertise the fan translation page on Reddit.

It's not a good look at all when the view that they already pay less attention to us than Japan is so widespread.

Absolutely this. The Live Letters are so important to us. Theye're one of the few reliable ways we can get some insight on what's planned and how SE feels about the state of the game. And they just leave it up to the fans to translate them? That's absurd!

I should not have to go to a 3rd party site to get official news. If the company officially supports a language, they should communicate important news like Live Letters and YoshiP's "walks" in it.

[Vstarstruck]

wait what is going on with the latest live letter? did they say outright they need players translate them or something?O_o

[Stormfur]

No... it's just that they tell you to tune into the live letter and tell you when and where, then at the very bottom, say that the audio will only be in Japanese.

I mean, translation is not an easy job to be sure, but many people feel it shouldn't fall to the community of players to translate live letters,interviews and the like.

[Remedi]

They simply said they won't be doing active translations on the forum and instead give a digest earlier (usually takes several months for them to do).

Granted my complaint does come from the fact that digests takes a lot of time from them, though how quick they'll post them up this time is on the unknown yet side, that said my point still stand it's only fair that non JP players can be able to understand LL directly

[Remedi]

As said they are removing it to focus on the digest, which may or may not come faster and hence my worry.

(Though considering what happened with the chrono trigger port, maybe even enough ppl will ask for this SE will comply)

[MageBlack]

They werent even going to keep up the live letters at all after 3.0's launch but because so many people wanted it they just reduced the frequency of them.

Are you guys meaning the short hand (and later long hand) official translation threads will no longer happen? If so, that does suck, kinda the opposite of what we are looking for. Although the fan translations are generally better, faster, and more detailed than the official translation. I miss the days when they did a live english translation with a translator during the actual event.