Quote Originally Posted by MAJRIS View Post
they did have ENG translators, but JP players complained the live letter takes 8 hours because there's always break for translator to translate everything into engrish, sentence by sentence.
I believe The un-translated live letter is result of community demand.

I agree that there could be subtitles but having double the time of LL, the complaint was absolutely justified and while this is not the best solution, it's the most convenient one, compared effort/price and result. Thanks fellow redditors for translation.
The real reason liveletters are so long has more to do with how incredibly poorly organized they are. There is often an inordinate amount of time in each liveletter that is more or less wasted by Yoshida just kind of rambling nonsensically.

Frankly, they should just be scripted and recorded ahead of time, with an official translation being made available immediately.