Final Fantasy XIV

Ich spiele auch die Open Beta und muss sagen optisch ist es wunder schön aber die Menüs bzw. die ganze Spielführung ist ja extrem träge tausend Menüs zum durch klicken usw. das macht das Gameplay extrem langsam irgendwie. Und man muss es mit Controller spielen auf Tastatur und Maussteuerung kann man das Spiel vergessen, das ist viel zu träge und viel zu sehr auf Controller ausgelegt.

Ich hab´s vorbestellt bin nun aber gespaltener Meinung, optisch wunderschön, Präsentation auch aber diese ganzen Menüs und ne also irgendwie weiß ich nicht, das gefällt mir irgendwie nicht. Ok es laggt sicher auch noch, aber wie doll die Verzögerung durch Lagg ist, kann ich nicht sagen.

Na ja ich spiele es noch etwas weiter an und werde dann gucken ob ich´s vorbestellt lasse oder doch lieber die Finger davon lasse.

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Final Fantasy XIV: “Chocobos” Renamed “Horsebirds”

• Author: Artefact
• Categories: Games, News
• Date: Sep 18, 2010 22:46 JST
• Tags: China, Final Fantasy, Made in China, MMORPG, Square Enix, Translation

Square Enix’s bizarre decision to rename “Chocobos” to “horsebirds” for the Japanese version of Final Fantasy XIV has given rise to a storm of criticism and a grovelling and unconvincing apology from the designers.
Meanwhile, players have begun to speculate that the game was largely made in China, with Chinese audiences in mind…
The situation began with Square Enix revealing it has a full Chinese version of Final Fantasy XIV planned.
Square Enix for its part has commented that “the Chinese version is a completely different service” and that it will solve the problem of gold farmers with IP bans.
Japanese players of Final Fantasy XIV soon noticed that their own version of the game dispensed completely with the “English” names in favour of names using Chinese characters exclusively.
Most noticeably, “Chocobo” (チョコボ – chokobo) was renamed to “馬鳥,” a meaningless word combining the character for “horse” with that for “bird.”
Chocobos thus became “horsebirds,” a phrase as ridiculous to Japanese ears as to western ones.
For those with some familiarity with the languages in question, this is how it all ended up:

Final Fantasy games have typically made heavy use of English in their Japanese language versions. Most Japanese players seem to have found these made-up Kanji terms considerably more confusing than the admittedly unwieldy English transliterations.
Curiously, some users also noticed that “index finger” was written in Chinese (食指) rather than Japanese (人差し指) – a very odd oversight indeed, unless it somehow transpired that the game was actually developed in China.
Soon suspicious users began to connect these changes with another major design change – the highly controversial “fatigue system,” which imposes severe penalties for players who play too long, as Square Enix sees it.
In fact, Chinese law requires all MMORPGs to have just such a “fatigue” system, in order to “protect” players from the addictive properties of these games.
For many, the coincidence of this exact feature appearing in the game alongside an announcement of a full Chinese release cannot be dismissed as coincidence. Soon Square Enix was being accused of making most of the game in China, for the Chinese.
Regarding this sudden change in naming, Square Enix’s Hiromichi Tanaka was at pains to deny it had anything to do with a Chinese version:

The next day Square Enix published a lengthy explanation of the decision, saying it was intended to simplify naming by consolidating on Chinese-like names but that the resultant mixture of hard to read Kanji names and the remaining unwieldy English names was even more confusing and inconvenient, and that it ruined the atmosphere.
As a result they announced they would be changing back to the English style naming.

Not all are convinced:

Of course, none of these translation concerns are likely to impinge upon the western release of the game (although seeing the international reaction to Chocobos being renamed to “Horsebirds” would be instructive indeed).
The suspicion that the fatigue system was largely introduced as a way of coping with Chinese laws does however make as least as much sense as the “reaching out to casuals by curbing hardcore players” explanation offered, and the doubts over the use of Chinese text in the game do not seem to have been dismissed as easily as Square Enix apparently hopes.

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Meine CE kam auch heute an (leider etwas lädiert an der Seite)

Werde morgen auch mal reinschauen, wenn ich neben Halo Reach Zeit habe. Hoffentlich läuft es auf meinem PC.
Die Benchmark lief auf Grund meiner Grafikkarte (Geforce 7800GS) leider nicht.

Ähm wenn der Benchmark schon nicht mal funktioniert, dann kaufst du dir noch das Game? Das ist ja sehr intelligent von dir. Das Spiel ist noch wesentlich aufwendiger als der Benchmark.

Naja vielleicht hast du ja Glück und es läuft tatsächlich aber ich bezweifle es und wäre an deiner Stelle das Risiko nicht eingegangen das überhaupt zu kaufen.