Live producer letter - live translation

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A rough translation by Reinheart

Live producer letter - live translation

EDIT: The damn thing is too long to put into 1 post and I don't have a lot of time this morning. Someone else can copy & paste but there's the link.

Also, attention Mods: look at the attachment

[Taskmage]

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Fixed the front page typos.

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Live producer letter - live translation

don't think it went too well since they talk fast and a lot at same time was hard for me typing while trying to listen to the next part lol but posting what I got from the live producer letter.

Will update once I get the video clip from others to go over the video or can just wait for the official translated one with english subs like they did with first producer live.

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Producer Letter Live 11/03/2011

I’ll try to put some translation when producer letter live goes on in here.

Youtube Live Address:

Twitter: Twitter

---- 2.0 concept art translations done from last Live interview --- Translations (JP to English) - Page 158

Just remember my translations are not 100% I understand what it means in Japanese but having hard time putting it into better words in English due to lack of vocabulary.. If you want you can try auto-translators but those are harder to use for JP to English. Or you can wait for the official translation when the reps to respond.

Y = YoshiP / F = Foxclon /

*cough* lol ...chocobo music.... *cough*

hi everyone
producer letter live time is here
first please give your introduction

producer/directer yoshida here
for overseas people its good afternoon
for Japan today is a holiday and all the dev team is off today so its quiet and no one will stop me this time.

F: from last time it’s been exactly 1 month, in that month lots have changed
Y: since last time its been 1 month and we were able to release 1.19 and 1.19a and we were able to announce 2.0

Y: I just came back from overseas just the other day and was able to go talk to different community members

F: We will answer questions we received up until now from the forums and from those being sent via twitter
will start the live

F: Q: regarding payment coming up
Y: I have answerwed in other interviews, was able to release chocobo, air ship, and content like feature such as ifrit. But still missing player search system, auction system where you can see atleast 20 history, for situation I believe it’s still 50% and that hasn’t changed but from 1.20 we will be including these and it should be up with those features. So would like for you to try first.

Y: We will be adding more and more events as we go through patches regarding the danger coming up to Eorzea, also to keep the quality service up we have to start charging sometime soon. I undertand some feel you didn’t have to bring this payment info up along with 2.0 information; I had to put this along with big information so players know that it’s going to happen and it’s not going to be announced later on in a little update where players may miss the information. For us it’s to just move forward.

Q: For the 2.0 how much data will be transfered from previous? Will all the points/stats carry over and if I don’t pay up till 2.0 will the character data still stay?
Y: Everything will basically be transfered so you don’t have tow orry, but there are 2 parts you have to remember there are parts like say 5 step quests, if you started a quest sand finished say 3 quests but have 2 more leading quests there may be possibility it will roll back where you have to start that quest over again. Also the other part is I want to reduce the inventory to 100 but it will be where we move the remaining player items to the NPC so you pull it out from them we will make them clear when we announce in forums or topic. Also for those players who pay or not we are still planning to transfer over data since I believe thats my responsibility so please don’t worry about that.

Q: Can gatherer or Crafter can be played as main class in future, like be able to use tools as weapons.
Y: A: I have been watching this closely in the forums for this one and thought I should answer this one, after I have taken over the FFXIV it’s been 11 month. for FFXIV there isn’t much trouble goign on, I want FFXIV to be where players team up and help each other to help the world so I want to make it where it’s like that. For Final Fantasy in general I have never been chosen to lead but I know how it is; but for it being MMORPG I believe to save the world is main for battle class. IF you play WoW you would know but with content finder using it makes it feel like you’re playing solo play; in FFXIV there are lots of things to do so I would like for you to try all tof them out like being crafter, gatherer and fighter and choosing which one you want to be as main. But for main features to upll the game it will involve fighter so would like for you to play as fighter to try those.

Q: for map remodeling, will there be cases where the chat log is skipped when you go through zoning.
A: you don’t have to worry too much since the loading isn’t that much and we’re programming where it’s keeping the log.

Q: received this a lot from foreign players be played with keyboard only
A: yes we have it set so you can key bind everything so this shouldn’t be a problem

Q: When accessing something and it’s stopping
A: for 2.0 everything will be changed so you shouldn’t see this problem if you could please wait till

A: kill boss and take that to crafter to make stuff like trophy to put inside house

Q: engine
A: it will make it possible to change settings in-game so you can lessent the number of players visible, or effects on/off to make it optimized for low spec pcs
it wont make it heavy load

Q: There are pictures in the back we see we didn't see at the last interview
A: We went to different square-enix offices when traveling so these are pictures of the staff from different countries. Wanted to post pics from the
interview also, we want to show this much people are involved in 14

Q: Want to be able to change race in 2.0
A: I think it's OK but is it really ok as a player where you were lalafel guy then suddenly become lalafel F !? but thats up to the player so the system is
in there

Q: Will be able to rename character?
A: We may ask to change the name since it's bit too long, but we cannot answer this yet, and it will depend

Q: When can we change gear for chocobo?
A: Good it's here, dev's not here so I can show this today you guys ready? (shows pic) this is current chocobo
F: That one looks nice
A: Just think of it like important people have horns

Q: What is that crown?
A: You saw it??? crown??? oh this stuff? (shows rain deer hat)
A: oh there are these (shows pic with crown)
A: for raindeer just imagine for the crown please think of it as a achievement it will require lots of work but to obtain something like this
will take some effort so please look forward to 2.0

Q: will tehre be mini game like Gold Saucer or Triple Triad
A: For Gold Saucer like area there is a plan but it will but some time ahead since housing has more priority but thinking of it as after that. We also have to investigate how different regions will think of this so we will look into this carefully.
A: for the card game I made one before but it takes a lot of work to make it; for MMORPG players think as rewards so just being it a card game alont wont do it, we have to make sure that part is taken care of. Dev team bring me request that they want to make card game but we're still looking into it.

Q: For Ifrit killed 45 times and my stuff didn't drop yet and losing motivation.
A:
(if over 50 people viewing google docs changed the mode to read only....)

Q: For players that pay up till 2.0 will there be some kind of reward for them?
A: There are event that will occur in the game so that is one, and there will be achievement you can only get from this as well as we are talking right now to see if we can include special mount for those players who stay. It’s kind of dangerous showing this but since it’s new info... some dev staff in the back worried lol. It’s flying but its
F: Ahriman???
A: It’s ahriman but that’s just example like this.
Y: We’re looking into different things and seeing which one is good
F: lol thats him
Y: yeah it’s him
Y: you can ride it but we may have something like this.
Y: now maybe I can’t come to work tomorrow... maybe I released too much... getting people looking at me that way

F: Want to take some break so you can go bathroom for 5min but don’t want to just leave it so we want to answer some question by showing slideshow showing whats those stuff were in the 2.0 image.

- first slide show with 2.0 image
(heads up might change to read only again, going over 50 people viewing, if that happens i can’t update while live is going on. I’m still translating on word pad and will copy/paste when google lets me so don’t worry)

iimage 2: T - tank, A - attacker, b - buffer - h healer - c caster - making it wso you can do like <tank> to display name or <p3>
image 3 - character name top “Dragon salyer” “materia hunter” achievement titles, titles are planned to be in English only.
Enemy name number next to it, the target number
PC buddy uddy can be called 1 buddy per PC, if playing with 2 PC you can play up to 4
You can turn on off the name displayed for own PC, other PC, PT member, Monster individually
- missed other part

- Free company name showed after the @
free company name for long ones can be shortened/abbreviated.
Example FinalfantasyXIV company name - short FFXIV

- Usable items can be registered in action bar by drag/drop
- slot 9 showing x142 is potion x142
- emote selection/ pc search/ party/friend/black list/ linkshell letter/ company/ support/ system
- actve/passive / status/equip / inventory /

- bag display
- 5x5=25 bag display
- left side is currently equiped and color shows the durability

(too fast ><)

Y: will show these in the forum later so don't worry

F: it's not mentioned in the 2.0 docs but whats going on with jump?
Y: For 2.0 if we're including jump it will require lots of checks so were talking about it's better for 2.0 but I have something to show in a video
Y: I said thats jumping too high and rejected but if its for taru it doesn't feel so weird but it's bit too comical so were still testing.
Y: as for swimming it will be after 2.0 but we want to add content for it like underwater ruin, or raid, and also thinking about air/breathing also.

F: will there be level sync?
Y: We are looking into this but we have to look into how the gears will affect since we have to make sure thats balanced out right.
Y: It's hard to balance out if high level player comes in so we have to look closely.

Y: in 2.0 can we show eye/head gear separately or head and face/ hat + glasses. For future it's different but for 2.0 release it's hard so we are looking into this.
F: how about cape?
Y: For cape for as it being Final Fantasy it requires to have good graphic quality and to make it up to FF standard to make the cape wave, or move smoothly, it will be really hard.

F: how about two-handed weapon
Y: looking into it so you can hold sword as two-hand, or be able to duel wield like thief class and moving to job like ninja.
Y: might move the dagger like weapon not much people using into this
Y: we are looking at everything but right now teh priority is for caster class

F: guid token
Y: for 1.20 with class changes, all ability/ws will change to where you learn everything through level up.
Y: we are talking if they are removing the guild token in general since with this there wont be much for token.
Y: we are planning to stop the token system temporarily in 1.20 and will ask players feedback to see what players want as reward

F: for chocobo, can it swim?
Y: for mount system I'm saying no, but there are devs that wants to jump while on mount.
Y: for swimming it will be really hard to do so it may be where you can walk/float on top but can't dive.

sorry missed question due to lag on google docs )

F: when will the smart phone application be available?
Y: we talked this in foreign interview but we’re preparing with 2.0 where you can access the game from outside. Like be able to access the inventory info, or auction. Or add features that can access stuff we mentioned before like the farm but since we’re doing this we want to make it work right and do it all the way so it may take some time to do this but will require some time like 6 month after 2.0 to start talking about this.

F:
Y: There will be higher caravan quest

F: player created add-on
Y: it’s mainly for skin/how the UI looks or be able to show everything by graph, or separating infomation in a log to show different info on different window. Will make it so it’s free where some people can create a system where it shows who’s in danger (in party) but thats upto the player developing. For those developing player UI please look forward to it.


F:monster NPC name, can it be show in English it will make it easier for communicating.
Y: from 2.0 it will be possible to set this optionally.

F: Will there be artifact for crafter/gatherer class
Y: In FF14 there is no artifact yet so can’t say anything there but there are class specific gear.
Y: shows image of gold saw, shield.
Y: want to make as much specifc (class) gear; we are making sure gatherer/crafter get it dunno if you call these artifact

F: For job system
Y: there are series of job quests for example knight, it will require gladiator say 30 where you can take the first quest to become a knigth, then after 5

F: will there be free trial version with 2.0 release?
Y: We are looking into it but right off 2.0 release might be too early so it will be after.
Players may be worried about RMT so we are looking into this to make sure we prevent them from beginning so there will
be tiem when free trial will start but will have to make sure the timing is right

F: please explain more about the combo
Y: class doing self combo, we will show this in next week along with class changes
Y: Say weapon skill A, B, C where you use A and move around and using B where it adds additional effect to stun the mob then using C to give high damage. It will require timing. It could be up to A to D.
This is for attacker but say for other class, say it's low hit damage but due to more hit rate it does more damage overall in the end. Where it's done within the same class. when other class action comes in breaks that system
can be used to break hate.
F: so this will be released info soon?
Y: yes

F: COn/THA which one will be WHM/BLM?
Y: jyujutsu = blm, genjutsu = whm

F: What will happen to the HQ once achievement comes in and it may lose quality of crafted.
Y: there will be items that will drop from mobs, but we are makingadjustments to parameters so when looking at the stats alone it wont beat the equipment
but with materia system it's possible to meet the same status and if it's HQ it will gain more.

F: from concept art in the back there is WHM showing hood up and own can players do this?
Y: we are working/looking into this but from devs its really hard to do this
Y: We are looking into this to where you put hood up/down but from some they are saying its not possible.

F: Moogle battle - There isn’t anyone stopping us today so...
Y: showing image/video of moogle fighting
F: can you explain a little?
Y: for the battle please look forward to it, for moogle there are several classes... so there is a team battle so please look for that.
Y: for ifrit it’s been defeated in 4 days and the person in charge who made that is working on moogle but wants to make it harder.

F: will there be no more public dungeons in the future?
Y: you can say everything will be gone but like public field there will be those that will still exist but it’s easier to design where only few members can go in, so we’re looking to go that direction.

F: with 2.0 for new players will they be able to go through current story we are
Y: for primal or instance raid those will remain

F: For the current story players how will this carry on to the 2.0
Y: like I mentioned earlier their will be achievment but also we wanted to include a character feature where it shows you went through the danger. Sorry it’s scenario related so can’t spoil too much.

F: More info on magitech armor
Y: like this? we took player poll in the past and received magitec armor like from FF6 is nice.
Y: that image i just showed is just rough art, its not confirmed, i asked

talking about this like being able to call other players to the room or having some kind of benefit when logging out in these type areas.

F: really want to know this but will there be wyvern for dragoon?
Y: At overseas interview when I answered this I asked this as questions since you're having it there as a pet, we have to balance out as both set so by having a pet your main character will do lower damage and the pet also damaging.
But I understand what they mean from dragoon's poitn of view, so we're looking to stuff like being able to jump and when coming down calling a dragon or something which will be possible with 2.0's system

F: next is last question - before the 2.0 release is there plans to release cap
Y: at 1.21 there are no plans sicne we are including job but after that up till 2.0 release we will look into this carefully but generally up till 1.21 there is nothing.

F: we can only look at the camera when talking so we can't tell how players
Y:

F: lets call him since he's there waiting. Wada youichi.

W: Thank you for supporting; as Yoshida mentioned to make it a quality game we have to ask for payment.
W: wanted to talk abotu payment, there are lots of things coming but in order to make this happen we ask for
W: we are looking into discount to get as much players possible.

Y: We want to get as much players so we want to look into discount
W: You guys are showing lots of info but whats this?
Y: It's time so that it for today
W: what thats it?

Thank you, bye

[Raydeus]

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TL;DR

[Etra]

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I'll just read the original Japanese one, but this English makes my brain hurt.

[Feba]

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For the lazy folks out there, Rikaichan + A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar are your friends.

[Aeni]

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I'll just read the original Japanese one, but this English makes my brain hurt.

Eerily reminded me of a badly used Google Translate ...

[Etra]

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Eerily reminded me of a badly used Google Translate ...

Mine? Yeah, I know. I typed but instead of because. I was tired! >o>

[Aeni]

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Mine? Yeah, I know. I typed but instead of because. I was tired! >o>

No, the one in the OP. The person who provided the translation is supposedly fluent in both languages? Because the translated portions look like they got fed through Google Translate.

[Etra]

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No, the one in the OP. The person who provided the translation is supposedly fluent in both languages? Because the translated portions look like they got fed through Google Translate.

...I would not call that fluent. At all. Ever... D: