Still no Japanese text, huh?

[abhumansoul]

Why in the world do Squenix games have Japanese voice and 8 different text languages, including Chinese and Korean, but not the original Japanese text?

[Seattlehockeyfan84]

Cause thats how most Japanese games are done when they are realized in english. Its an industry wide thing. There is basically no japan PC version of the game.

[Articuno76]

Have you tried altering the language outside of the game by right-clicking > properties > language?

[Sniper Bear]

ummm whats the problem here...?

[Player 3]

Originally posted by wissawaguy:

why the ♥♥♥♥ would you want japanese on an english version of the game?

Because the pc version is worldwide. And in japan, pc player actually speak japanese?

[abhumansoul]

日本語を優先するのが悪いとでも...?

[Deiser]

Originally posted by LeChuck:

Originally posted by wissawaguy:

why the ♥♥♥♥ would you want japanese on an english version of the game?

Because the pc version is worldwide. And in japan, pc player actually speak japanese?

Edit: Nevermind, didn't read your response correctly. My guess is because square assumed that the Japanese market wouldn't be interested in a PC release (from what I understand, PC Games aren't anywhere near as popular as console/handheld), much like a lot of other recent JRPGs - especially from Namco and Square - tend to be on PC only in the west.

[RubberduckzillA RIP Alwyn]

Originally posted by gstommylee001:

Cause thats how most Japanese games are done when they are realized in english. Its an industry wide thing. There is basically no japan PC version of the game.

Actually no EDF let's you have Japanese text

[abhumansoul]

Hell, Tomb Raider lets you have Japanese text.

[blight]

Wow thats crazy, feel bad for ya guys.

[AsceticG]

Sorry about that I typed that when I was drunk.

[Player 3]

Originally posted by Deiser:

Originally posted by LeChuck:

Because the pc version is worldwide. And in japan, pc player actually speak japanese?

Edit: Nevermind, didn't read your response correctly. My guess is because square assumed that the Japanese market wouldn't be interested in a PC release (from what I understand, PC Games aren't anywhere near as popular as console/handheld), much like a lot of other recent JRPGs - especially from Namco and Square - tend to be on PC only in the west.

Pc gaming isnt as popular in japan as it is in the west but it still exist and its popularity is growing now, you can check other games from idea factory for exemple they added japanese text patch for some of their japanese games that didnt release with japanese text because there was a demand for it from the japanese market.

[fabulousfrog]

Japanese text please! Why toss out original interface and text yet take the time to translate everything to 7 other languages? Once all that work is compiled we're just going to dump the source langauge that's responsible for every other translation?

[five3]

So has anyone read anything from support or devs on the PC release, are we ever going to see Japanese Interface/text?

[Schnittertm]

Originally posted by five3:

So has anyone read anything from support or devs on the PC release, are we ever going to see Japanese Interface/text?

Japanese developer, they put the game out on PC, they put DLC out on PC (though free this time ) and only patch things in if the community raises a really, really big stink. At least that is the way it seems to go most of the time.

[IronCodeMonkey]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one really confused about this...
It does feel like there was extra time and effort spent to explicitly remove the Japanese text for some reason.
I tried checking the Japanese site (for the game), but they don't even advertise the PC version (only PlayStation versions)...
I'm assuming Koei Tecmo totally dropped the ball on this one.