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#1 Apr 30 2014 at 5:32 AM Rating: Good
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In-case someone hasn't seen this in an email or on the eu pol site:

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Dear valued FINAL FANTASY XI player,

We have an announcement regarding an important change for FINAL FANTASY XI in-game text support. At present, players are able to choose between Japanese, English, French, and German language options, but due to the decreasing numbers of French and German language players, we have had to make a difficult but necessary decision on the support for these two languages. As such, we will be removing the French and German language options from FINAL FANTASY XI after the July 2014 version update, but will continue to support Japanese and English. Of course, French and German-speaking players will be able to continue playing using their current characters and settings in an English language environment. (Note that some macros may need to be modified.)

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to our francohpone and germanophone players for their fantastic long-time dedication to FINAL FANTASY Xl, and will continue to provide French and German speaking customer support services.

Although it greatly saddens us that we will no longer be able to offer in-game text for these two languages, English localisation support will continue, and we hope that you will continue to experience exciting adventures in the world of Vana’diel.

Akihiko Matsui, FFXI producer

http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/index.shtml

Edited, Apr 30th 2014 7:32am by Szabo
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#2 Apr 30 2014 at 6:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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I wonder if this will this have implications for Canada. "Oh no, our beloved Quebecois will be forced to use English!"
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#3 Apr 30 2014 at 7:42 AM Rating: Decent
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FFXI is dying.

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

Edited, Apr 30th 2014 9:42am by Kragorn
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#4 Apr 30 2014 at 7:50 PM Rating: Decent
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So does this mean I won't be able to type '/translate "Ace's Helm" eg' anymore to amuse myself? Sadness
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#5 May 02 2014 at 3:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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Elwynbelwyn wrote:
I wonder if this will this have implications for Canada. "Oh no, our beloved Quebecois will be forced to use English!"




Most of them use the english version of the game, in case you didn't know.


Edited, May 2nd 2014 5:03pm by MisterRandy


Edited, May 2nd 2014 5:04pm by MisterRandy
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#6 May 02 2014 at 6:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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MisterRandy wrote:
Elwynbelwyn wrote:
I wonder if this will this have implications for Canada. "Oh no, our beloved Quebecois will be forced to use English!"

Most of them use the english version of the game, in case you didn't know.

That was a joke, in case you didn't know.
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#7 May 06 2014 at 4:33 PM Rating: Good
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Does this mean an expansion of terms for the auto translate function?

But to be honest, I've never seen french or german used in game. Aside from english all I've seen was japanese, and occasional spanish.

Edited, May 6th 2014 6:39pm by akudama
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#8 May 07 2014 at 8:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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akudama wrote:
Does this mean an expansion of terms for the auto translate function?

But to be honest, I've never seen french or german used in game. Aside from english all I've seen was japanese, and occasional spanish.


I have, but they also spoke English. I was in a FR/EN linkshell for a long time on Seraph. Since we were all EST, we were able to coordinate our events pretty well.

This also means that, per the rules of the EU, no more expansions will be published in the EU zone. They're the ones that required the two extra languages.
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#9 May 08 2014 at 6:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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I've been in a LS with a couple of FR players on Fairy/Sylph, never seen any German, seen other random languages from time to time. I've always been surprised they thought German was worth the effort, but not Spanish. At least French has a valid excuse of making Quebec happy.

Top ten languages by user count on Wikipedia:
English 27%
Chinese 25%
Spanish 8%
Japanese 5%
Portuguese 4%
German 4%
Arabic 3%
French 3%
Russian 3%
Korean 2%
other 17%

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This also means that, per the rules of the EU, no more expansions will be published in the EU zone. They're the ones that required the two extra languages.

Maybe they could remove the region restrictions on SE/FFXI accounts to allow EU accounts to migrate to NA FFXI.

Edited, May 8th 2014 8:25am by Elwynbelwyn
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#10 May 09 2014 at 6:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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Catwho wrote:
[quote=akudama]This also means that, per the rules of the EU, no more expansions will be published in the EU zone. They're the ones that required the two extra languages.


That's sad, I hope I can get the next expansion packs without problems as German or French support don't help me much when I live outside of those countries but still in EU.
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#11 May 10 2014 at 12:05 AM Rating: Decent
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Maybe they could remove the region restrictions on SE/FFXI accounts to allow EU accounts to migrate to NA FFXI.


Not sure they can, because of the Playstation. They'd have to drop Playstation support, surely? I know Sony is *huge* on its region restrictions; they don't want gamers actually getting access to games (which is why they have such retarded restrictions in the first place). I used to talk over the internet with an Aussie guy who could never get anywhere near half of the awesome games, because very few of any Playstation games were playable in Australia due to the region control BS.

So, if SE allowed EU PC accounts to migrate to NA, then you'd have all the Playstation users crying foul.
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#12 May 10 2014 at 1:24 AM Rating: Decent
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Lyrailis wrote:
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Maybe they could remove the region restrictions on SE/FFXI accounts to allow EU accounts to migrate to NA FFXI.


Not sure they can, because of the Playstation. They'd have to drop Playstation support, surely? I know Sony is *huge* on its region restrictions; they don't want gamers actually getting access to games (which is why they have such retarded restrictions in the first place). I used to talk over the internet with an Aussie guy who could never get anywhere near half of the awesome games, because very few of any Playstation games were playable in Australia due to the region control BS.

So, if SE allowed EU PC accounts to migrate to NA, then you'd have all the Playstation users crying foul.
Sony hasn't used region locks since ps2 Smiley: dubious Ps3, ps4, psp, and vita are all region lock free. I believe there is a version of the ps2 too that doesn't have region locks.

Edited, May 10th 2014 3:26am by Rachel9
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#13 May 10 2014 at 1:37 AM Rating: Good
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Publishers can choose whether or not to implement region locking on the PS3 and PS4 which happened with recent games like Persona 4 Arena and Lightning Returns. The PSVITA is pretty stupid for only letting you have one playstation account active, which means I can't access the US and EU store at the same time.
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#14 May 10 2014 at 3:45 AM Rating: Good
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I have spent many years in an EU ls in the past with many people speaking different languages.
(Most were UK peeps with French, some Dutch, Swedish and German players.)
Of course they muddled through with English but if there were a few of them in alliance, they would talk amoungst themselves in their native tongue because it was easier to express themselves.
I can see why SE would want to scale back the service but it's a shame they won't be catered for anymore.


Edited, May 10th 2014 5:46am by Janeash
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#15 May 10 2014 at 5:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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Lyrailis wrote:
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Maybe they could remove the region restrictions on SE/FFXI accounts to allow EU accounts to migrate to NA FFXI.
Not sure they can, because of the Playstation. They'd have to drop Playstation support, surely?.

There was never an EU PS2 version.
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#16 May 10 2014 at 9:26 AM Rating: Decent
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Lyrailis wrote:
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Maybe they could remove the region restrictions on SE/FFXI accounts to allow EU accounts to migrate to NA FFXI.


Not sure they can, because of the Playstation. They'd have to drop Playstation support, surely? I know Sony is *huge* on its region restrictions; they don't want gamers actually getting access to games (which is why they have such retarded restrictions in the first place). I used to talk over the internet with an Aussie guy who could never get anywhere near half of the awesome games, because very few of any Playstation games were playable in Australia due to the region control BS.

So, if SE allowed EU PC accounts to migrate to NA, then you'd have all the Playstation users crying foul.


The account system has nothing to do with platforn, it's mostly due to the regional differences in payment systems.
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