Spanish localization, when?

[Anikad]

Come on... Is the 4th most spoken language in the world.

Some will say that the game doesn't have enough Spanish speakers to justify it, I don't think that's the case. But that's also the reason why they aren't here.

Please.

[Deveryn]

It's not the population that's the justification issue. It's the amount of work to get caught up and then keep things going. That's a lot of hours of expensive studio time.

[Bukachu]

It's not the population that's the justification issue. It's the amount of work to get caught up and then keep things going. That's a lot of hours of expensive studio time.

ah yes the small indie company SE, imma donate 10 euros so they can advance.

[Deveryn]

ah yes the small indie company SE, imma donate 10 euros so they can advance.

"sMaLl InDiE cOmPaNy" Polly want a cracker?

Logistics are clearly beyond you, so maybe take that nonsense elsewhere.

[Enkidoh]

Also it's economics that play a part - the reason there are German and French translations in the game is because they're the two main economies in Europe (larger than the UK even) so there is a far greater economic incentive to SE to support those languages in the game, and English is considered a de facto world language.

Unfortunately Spain's economy is not as large as their neighbour, and even many of the countries of South America where Spanish is spoken as an official language... are in economic turmoil, so the financial burden to SE is probably considered to be just too great I'm sorry to say.

[Anikad]

Also it's economics that play a part - the reason there are German and French translations in the game is because they're the two main economies in Europe (larger than the UK even) so there is a far greater economic incentive to SE to support those languages in the game, and English is considered a de facto world language.

Unfortunately Spain's economy is not as large as their neighbour, and even many of the countries of South America where Spanish is spoken as an official language... are in economic turmoil, so the financial burden to SE is probably considered to be just too great I'm sorry to say.

I really doubt this is the case.

There are several MMORPG translated in Spanish (WOW, ESO, GUILD WARS 2) to name a few, I really, really doubt that the latest makes more money than square with their game.

ESO had no Spanish localization and they added it recently.

[Deveryn]

I really doubt this is the case.

There are several MMORPG translated in Spanish (WOW, ESO, GUILD WARS 2) to name a few, I really, really doubt that the latest makes more money than square with their game.

ESO had no Spanish localization and they added it recently.

That sounds like just text localization. Over here, it would mean text and voice, which I assume is the only way they would add it on. Text translation probably exists already.

Korea gets their own localization and version of the game and I believe there's another company that handles that.

[Theodric]

It's not the population that's the justification issue. It's the amount of work to get caught up and then keep things going. That's a lot of hours of expensive studio time.

The Elder Scrolls Online launched roughly around the same time as FFXIV did and has a lot more text in general when accounting for quest dialogue, item descriptions and the five thousand or so in-game books that can be found and read. That didn't stop it recently expanding localisation for Spanish speaking players.

Furthermore, every single bit of quest dialogue in TESO is voiced as well...

[Crimen]

I get what everyone is saying about it taking way too long / too much money to record everything from the start. That's a good point. I think doing text translation to Spanish and just starting Spanish voice recordings for the story as of 7.X onwards would be a neat idea. I know text translation in itself is a behemoth of a task, but it would def be less time-consuming and more cost-effective than also doing all the voice recordings. Of course, it'll be up to SE to decide if it would ever be worth it. Spanish is usually a language option for most games, so it surprised me they've never added it.

[Anikad]

That sounds like just text localization. Over here, it would mean text and voice, which I assume is the only way they would add it on. Text translation probably exists already.

Korea gets their own localization and version of the game and I believe there's another company that handles that.

The UI in Spanish is good enough, I don't think that's too much to ask