Shakespeare once wrote, "Brevity is the soul of wit," but some
Final Fantasy XIVÂ*players are at their
wits'
end when it comes to character limitations in chat. Â*Apparently, adventurers are given but 85 characters an entry with which to express themselves (minus their name length), which is particularly constricting for would-be role players. Â*I also imagine German players might have a tough time talking about how they mined some
Teichmuschelschale with a
Gefiederte Bronzespitzhacke.
Admittedly, this is a minor complaint, and perhaps just something Square Enix has overlooked. Â*Japanese is written with ideograms and phonetic symbols -- both of which can convey more information per character than your standard alphabet soup. Â*Just following the official
English and
Japanese Twitter accounts for FFXIV provides a perfect example:
On September 2nd, there was a notice about congestion on the Beta Tester Site. Â*In
one post, consisting of 129 characters, the Japanese account was able to
- Identify the problem: (ç¾åœ¨ã€Î²ãƒ†ã‚¹ã‚¿ãƒ¼ã‚µã‚¤ãƒˆãŒã‚¢ã‚¯ã‚»ã‚¹é› †ä¸*ã«ã‚ˆã‚Šæ*£å¸¸ã«é–²è¦§ã§ããªã„状態ã«ã ªã£ã¦ã„ã¾ã™ã€‚)
- Note that there was a related notice posted (ã“ã®ãŸã‚ã€ãŠçŸ¥ã‚‰ã›ã¯ã‚µãƒãƒ¼ãƒˆã‚»ãƒ³ã ‚¿ãƒ¼ã«ã‚‚掲載ã„ãŸã—ã¾ã™ã€‚)
- Post a full link (plus label) for users (スクウェア・エニックス サãƒãƒ¼ãƒˆã‚»ãƒ³ã‚¿ãƒ¼ http://support.jp.square-enix.com/ffxiv/)
The English account, however, had to spread these three points into
three separate tweets, which contained 120, 89 and 81 characters, respectively. Â*Given that adventurers have first and last names this time around, most chat entries are restricted to half the size of a Twitter post; none of these would have made it through.
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Arcade
09-27-2010, 01:33 AM
Lamentations on Linguistic Limitations [Final Fantasy XIV]
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