“There’s good news regarding the Spanish translation”: Square Enix is ​​open to localizing Final Fantasy 14

Final Fantasy XIV Very soon it will get its fifth expansion, Downrailwhich Square Enix will start with a new story that is expected to keep the game alive for another ten years. Although before its launch on July 2nd (June 28th for those who pre-ordered) on PC, Xbox Series X/S, PS4 and PS5, the Vandal We’ve already had a chance to check out and chat with the still-in-development version Naoki Yoshidaits director and producer.

During our interview with Yoshida We took the opportunity to ask him again about the possibility of one day translating the game into Spanishsomething that has been in high demand in the Spanish community for years and that even recently led Spain fans to make a joint request on the official forums.

Good news regarding Square Enix’s change of direction

In asking this question, we remind him that last time he told us that they would need a good team of translators to do something like this, telling us the following: “As for translating the game into Spanish, We haven’t received any requests for Spanish translators, but there is good news“.

“There have been recent changes at Square Enix and we now have a new CEO, Takashi Kiruwho like me He wants as many people around the world to enjoy our games as possible, and one of the things we need to do to achieve that goal is to increase the number of languages ​​we translate them into, as he himself told the company’s internal team. This applies not only to Final Fantasy XIVbut I hope that going forward we can generally increase the number of languages ​​we support in our titles.”

as you can see This is a much more optimistic and hopeful response than what we have received in other cases.although nothing has been confirmed yet.

Yoshida’s response to a request from the Spanish community

Incidentally, we wanted to echo the aforementioned translation request made by the FFXIVESP community on the official forums, which he was unaware of. After pausing briefly in the interview to read the post, he asked us to tell you this: “First of all, I’d like to thank the entire community and our passionate fans. Many thanks for this forum post.“.

“Here we have our own A global community producer (he said, pointing to Tosio Murouti, who was also present during the interview) that certainly going to send the teams a report order so I can take a look at it myself and read what the community is asking for. I would really appreciate it if you let the Spanish community know that you shared this with me and that I saw this post, so I will do my best to prepare an answer.“he concluded.

Our impressions with a very promising expansion

Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail will bring with it many new featuresincluding the ability to upgrade our jobs to level 100, new regions to explore, new dungeons, two new classes (Viper in Pictomancer), Hrothgar women as a new playable race, new abilities, new equipment, new story and more. If you want to learn more about this extension, we recommend you take a look at the impressions we just published on Vandal.


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