FFXIV Chinese Version Coming Soon

[Blair]

The recent interview about FFXIV Chinese version, below is google translate.

http://translate.google.com.tw/translate?hl=zh-TW&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fff14.17173.com%2Fzt%2F20110428%2Findex.shtml


I didn't know this until one of my HongKong friend send me the link.
Then I realize everything make sense about why Yoshi is making FFXIV so easy.

SE need to make MONEY out of China market first, then come back to implement more as a whole to FFXIV international.

Maybe FFXIV will actually be saved by China, similar to what WOW did.

[Rau]

If Chinese RMT play on our servers, i'm quitting this game.

Seeing that Taru rapesquad in uldah is already annoying enough.

[Moth]

Not all Chinese players are RMT you know :/ but i guess it would increase the rmts regardless.

[Randis]

in many Asian countries, the majority of the kids who play MMO do play them at internet coffee, there are literally 1-2 of those internet shops at every street corner everywhere.

The thing is that most of the shops have rather cheap and not up to date hardware and while games like WoW, Ro and a zillion of other asian free to play and PtP MMO games run on every machine, FFXIV does not.
Nor was there any prepaid card based payment method introduced for FF yet.
The games are not played by monthly subscription, plus all installed games must function with any account, ergo no unique IP, serials and so on.

[elkhorn]

If Chinese RMT play on our servers, i'm quitting this game.

Seeing that Taru rapesquad in uldah is already annoying enough.

well damn you musta quit 5 months ago because thats when the RMT population boomed accross all servers. You might not see them in your play time but rest asured they are around..

[Evangela]

I don't think so...

SE sold XIV to chinese provider just because they want to separate RMT to play on their own world (I didn't mean all chinese players are RMT but... little amount of all chinese = a lot)

and there's nothing to do with how they developing the game

[Ark_mage2]

So this is probably a result of the bad automatic translation, but did Yoshi-P mention in the interview that there would be UI changes coming along with the battle changes, and that they are in fact working on optimizing game performance?

[Duelle]

If Chinese RMT play on our servers, i'm quitting this game.

Seeing that Taru rapesquad in uldah is already annoying enough.

As I've said before, RMT thrives in rarity-based economies. I haven't seen much of that in this game so far. The moment you start really going towards rarity-based, you'll start seeing RMT gain steam.

[Xenor]

As I've said before, RMT thrives in rarity-based economies. I haven't seen much of that in this game so far. The moment you start really going towards rarity-based, you'll start seeing RMT gain steam.

The lack of rarity in this game is why the economy is so terrible. Fear of RMT shouldn't mean the game has to suffer. I'll happily put up with RMT if it means a functioning economy.

[Radaghast]

Horsebirds!