Collection of FFXIV News from Media Sources

[miokomioko]

Campaign was my last straw.

[SamanosukeShiva]

ffxi's music was fine for me, i find myself turning off WoW's music more often, heck once i dinged 80 and start raiding i turned the music off and never turn it on ever again.

[Cesaria]

I turned 11's music off after I caught my then-boyfriend unaware he was whistling the Sandy bagpipes music. The loops on the tunes in 11 are so short that it does your head in after about 10 minutes - especially (however much I do actually like them) the Jeuno Xmas jingle bells... only ever put the sound back on when I'm doing things like WOTG cutscenes or the mini-expansion final fights.

[Lordender]

Thank god Dragons Aery or Attowah Chasm didn't have music, phew.

[willriker]

One thing I've always found really odd (but interesting) about FFXI is that it was initially designed for Japan, yet every single NPC and monster in the game only has a name in English, and players can only use English characters for their own names. If you play the Japanese version of the game, the names above monsters don't change to Japanese or anything, they're exactly the same.

Most Japanese peoples' English is not very good, so I can guarantee that names like "Virulent Peiste" mean absolutely nothing to them. Seems like a very weird design decision to me to name everything in a language your main audience doesn't speak.

Ill give you that, but there is also a healthy mixture of Japanese in the game as well. Every Katana, Great Katana, Ninjitsu Spells, some Yagudo, every Katana WS, every Great katana WS. Basicaly almost all things that was derived from that area of the world used Japanese. Even in the english version. Though, only english characters were used.

Then you have a good mixture of european names for gear/enemies in the game as well. Things like Kamphmaschine, the whole Eisen set, many NM's have Norse/Greek/English names.

Forgive me if im wrong, but for most of FFXI's existance... the majority of players were english speaking. It does make sence that most of the items/enemies are in english characters, with english based names.

[Rokku]

Forgive me if im wrong, but for most of FFXI's existance... the majority of players were english speaking. It does make sence that most of the items/enemies are in english characters, with english based names.

When FFXI was originally released SE had made the announcement that there were no plans to localize it for any countries other than Japan, so that isn't a valid point. They changed their minds in later years, but saying that they used English names to facilitate a large English speaking userbase for a game that they didn't plan to release to English speaking countries just doesn't make sense.

[Makwa]

I think the chocobo riding music made me turn of ffxi music alot... ;/

I got sick of it too. But then I changed it for some guitar F-Zero X Mute City theme, and promptly rode chocobo everywhere.

[Vuitton]

Campaign was my last straw.

This! I hate the campaign battle music. It is so repetitive and harsh to listen to. Really grated on my nerves. Which says a lot because I like to keep FFXI's music on because I enjoy it, but the campaign battle music made me want to slash the composer's wrists.

[Kuya]

I hope the main music will be done with japanese only
, personally music just sounds better done in japanese then english for game music ;/

lol

[Evensong]

how can anyone possibly hate the chocobo riding music???

[Destinye]

When FFXI was originally released SE had made the announcement that there were no plans to localize it for any countries other than Japan, so that isn't a valid point. They changed their minds in later years, but saying that they used English names to facilitate a large English speaking userbase for a game that they didn't plan to release to English speaking countries just doesn't make sense.

Well that's a special case. Japan isn't the biggest PC gaming country compared to say Korea and the US, there was demand for a PC version of FFXI which they decided to localize it to English for the PC release because they may as well get more money for it right?

Also, it's required that you need to know at least basic English by the end of Highschool in Japan and since romanji is used in favor of Kana at a lot of the time by younger people it's just easier to use English..even before releasing it the west.

[Rulke]

Doesnt the chocobo riding music fade out after like 5 minutes of riding?

[Deimos]

Also, it's required that you need to know at least basic English by the end of Highschool in Japan and since romanji is used in favor of Kana at a lot of the time by younger people it's just easier to use English..even before releasing it the west.

I'm not sure where you're getting this from. I've never seen a case of "romanji is used in favor of Kana at a lot of the time by younger people", and very few people in Japan speak even extremely basic English.

It's just like here in Canada, we're required to learn some French in school, but almost nobody takes it seriously beyond what's needed to get through the course. It's all forgotten immediately as soon as possible.

[Elmer the Pointy]

I'm not sure where you're getting this from. I've never seen a case of "romanji is used in favor of Kana at a lot of the time by younger people", and very few people in Japan speak even extremely basic English.

It's just like here in Canada, we're required to learn some French in school, but almost nobody takes it seriously beyond what's needed to get through the course. It's all forgotten immediately as soon as possible.

You're right, it's actually quite the opposite. People text/mail/message each other almost exclusively in hiragana/katakana, and even modern words that develop (Google, Twitter etc.) are quickly given hiragana/katakana equivalents that are widely used.

They continue to try and ramp up the educational system here for English, but still many people end up like your example, "Ah yea, I learned some French in high school, but I forgot it."
Still, I think many Japanese know a lot more than they let on, it's just harder to draw it out because they don't want to screw up. They have started some new courses in elementary school this year aimed at getting students familiar with other cultures before introducing full-on language classes, which they hope will help remove a lot of that uneasiness.

[Kaluuki]

since romanji is used in favor of Kana at a lot of the time by younger people it's just easier to use English..even before releasing it the west.

Uhm... I'd like to know your source for this statement. lol

I'm pretty sure it's easier to communicate in their native language rather than English.

[tsaroth816]

I think all the music in FFXI is great...just not listen to it 5 years straight great. I don't think any music "lasts" 5 years, listening to it everyday, nonstop. Kinda the way MMO goes unfortunately.

I turn music on for new Missions/Quests/Zones. And when I pop in an old zone/city/area, the music gives a bit of nostalgia until I re-turn it back off

[Gulkeeva]

Doesnt the chocobo riding music fade out after like 5 minutes of riding?

5min.. everywhere you go.. repeating a 30sec? song constantly... every day for hours on end, it was madness!

[McGoonagle]

Doesnt the chocobo riding music fade out after like 5 minutes of riding?

I make it slightly over six minutes. I do wonder if it's timed for the ride from the stable to the nearest crag. That's a pretty easy ride from Sandy to Holla, but you have to be going some and getting the best possible path with no mistakes to make Dem or Mea from the stables (never quite managed either) in that time.

[ringthree]

I hope the main music will be done with japanese only
, personally music just sounds better done in japanese then english for game music ;/

Thats just because the lyrics are always cheesy and when they are in Japanese you don't know what they are saying (at least as well) and it doesn't make you cringe as much.

[Khalil]

I'm not sure where you're getting this from. I've never seen a case of "romanji is used in favor of Kana at a lot of the time by younger people", and very few people in Japan speak even extremely basic English.

It's just like here in Canada, we're required to learn some French in school, but almost nobody takes it seriously beyond what's needed to get through the course. It's all forgotten immediately as soon as possible.

You're not required to learn French in Canada. Official languages are English and French, therefore you have a choice to learn either one or two. However, in QC, you're forced to learn French.