FFXIV in Arabic?

[Ganbachi]

I'd like to know if it's possible in the future to have the game supported in Arabic. I know it costs a lot, but I'm sure it's gonna pay back with all the Arab fans.

[Rau]

There is a pretty large Arab population on Durandal, so I know a bunch of people would appreciate it. But yeah, huge cost to translating, so don't see it happening :|

[Astrix]

That would be pretty awesome~(funny at times) but yea, as rau said would prolly be way too much to have it done.

P.S. Halla walla ganbachi matwaqa3t ashoofik ehny! Esh7alik?

[Ganbachi]

That would be pretty awesome~(funny at times) but yea, as rau said would prolly be way too much to have it done.

P.S. Halla walla ganbachi matwaqa3t ashoofik ehny! Esh7alik?

wow....... long time no see O_O same server as well woah!

[Punainen]

I haven't seen any Arab players. Chances are their population in this game is very small, and therefore translating would not be cost effective.

[Arkine]

To be completely fair, the Arab game market is still fairly young, during the PS1 and PS2 era most (1995~2004) most game consoles available in the middle east were modded and pirated games were so common that there are many people that weren't even aware that 50$ games even excised.

It's only at this gen of consoles with the previously un-hackable PS3, and the online functionality of the Xbox360 that people were inclined to get legit games.

Arabic titles are starting to come out and sites like IGN is now available in arabic. (http://me.ign.com/ar/)

Who knows, maybe the next FF online title will will have arabic in it.

[kazaran]

Some other Final Fantasy's were translate dto Arabic and Turkish. THey may do it in 2.0 ALso be cool if they could some how integrate the newer google tranlation program.

[Alhanelem]

Odds are you'd see Spanish before any other language- it's been requested quite a few times. As of yet though there's been no plan for additional supported languages.

cool if they could some how integrate the newer google tranlation program.

Google translate is not anywhere near close to being good enough to be used in a production software title. You can't translate context, so even if it accurately translates the literal meaning of all words correctly, people often use these words in ways software can't predict. This is why machine translation gives you a basic idea of what's being said at best.

[Klefth]

If anything they should translate it into Spanish first. It's the second most spoken language worldwide. Make it happen, SE!

[Rau]

If anything they should translate it into Spanish first. It's the second most spoken language worldwide. Make it happen, SE!

iirc chinese > english > spanish