Tokyo Fan Fest - Only keynote to be translated

[RagingAvatar]

I was at Paris Fan Fest and found it pretty amazing that the whole thing was available in English, and probably most of it understandable for Japanese people too while being live streamed on Twitch.

Why isn’t the Tokyo Fan Fest available wholly in English on livestream?
The fact that the key note is being translated makes me feel like Square Enix just don’t want to deal with the expense.
Heck, I’d be happy to pay $5 to watch the Tokyo Fan Fest in English and I suspect I’m not alone.

What do you guys think about this?

[Kaedan]

The Europe Fan Fest was in English because it was being held in Europe. They couldn't very well have the thing in Japanese while it's being held in Europe.

But since Tokyo Fan Fest is being held in Tokyo, there's really no need for them to have English for anything but the keynote. The attendees are going to be 99% Japanese, with maybe a small number of foreigners. So it really doesn't make sense to translate the side panels.

Later, when the side panels are available online, I'm sure some FF fan will translate them (and I think they often post summary translations here on the forums). I've done a bit of translating as well, if I have the time.

[RagingAvatar]

There’s no reason S-E couldn’t translate the side panels on stream is what I’m saying.

Obviously they’re not going to translate it live for a predominantly Japanese audience.

An MMO game is a worldwide game, trying to communicate with as wide an audience as possible is always a good idea.

[Lambdafish]

But since Tokyo Fan Fest is being held in Tokyo, there's really no need for them to have English for anything but the keynote. The attendees are going to be 99% Japanese, with maybe a small number of foreigners. So it really doesn't make sense to translate the side panels.

Except the whole thing is being live-streamed online to a worldwide audience. I kinda understand why generic live letters aren't translated given their small scale, but this is a Fan Fest.

[Barraind]

Except the whole thing is being live-streamed online to a worldwide audience. I kinda understand why generic live letters aren't translated given their small scale, but this is a Fan Fest.

I actually dont understand the lack of official translations on things being delivered to the community as a whole.

At this point, more people playing 14 speak English than any other language, and they employ people for that purpose.

[Celef]

I was at Paris Fan Fest and found it pretty amazing that the whole thing was available in English, and probably most of it understandable for Japanese people too while being live streamed on Twitch.

Why isn’t the Tokyo Fan Fest available wholly in English on livestream?
The fact that the key note is being translated makes me feel like Square Enix just don’t want to deal with the expense.
Heck, I’d be happy to pay $5 to watch the Tokyo Fan Fest in English and I suspect I’m not alone.

What do you guys think about this?

Just go on Twitch man, fluent people do the insta trad for free there

[kikix12]

Except the whole thing is being live-streamed online to a worldwide audience. I kinda understand why generic live letters aren't translated given their small scale, but this is a Fan Fest.

Live translation takes time, more than anything. They will have to interrupt speaking to let translator speak the same thing just in different language. That interrupts the flow and takes away from what they are able to present.

The Live-Stream is there, yes, but who exactly told you that it's "for you"?! It may be for the Japanese that could not attend the Fan Fest, and you are just allowed to latch on.

Just wait for the translation or depend on the fan translations. Live translations are not only inaccurate but interfere with the event.

[Nedkel]

Because it was for the Japan community, which is about 1/3 of the whole playerbase of this game.
A translation would be really terrible, its difficult to translate from japanese to english on the fly.

[Mansion]

A translation would be really terrible, its difficult to translate from japanese to english on the fly.

Like Koji fox did for Las Vegas and Paris?

I mean, a Keynot is not random speech, it's a set of bullet points. You can prepare an English version for this in advance and deliver at the same time it like they did for Las Vegas and Paris.

[Kaedan]

Like Koji fox did for Las Vegas and Paris?

I mean, a Keynot is not random speech, it's a set of bullet points. You can prepare an English version for this in advance and deliver at the same time it like they did for Las Vegas and Paris.

The Keynote will be translated on a separate channel.