Square Enix has renamed Final Fantasy XIV’s “Horsebirds” to “Chocopo” – this along with a slew of other spelling mistakes has solidified the suspicions of Japanese players that the game was made in China.
After making good its promise to remove “pseudo-Chinese” names, Square Enix seems once again to have inflamed the situation – the sloppy spelling mistakes introduced during the patch are being interpreted as evidence the job was not handled by native Japanese speakers.
“Chocobo” is misspelt “Chocopo”
Just whether this is any improvement over the previous “horsebird” is hard to judge.
More examples:
“Physical Bonus” is misspelt “Physical Ponus”
“Telepo” is misspelt “Telebo”
“Support Desk” is misspelt “Subbort Desk”
In all cases the errors are caused by confusing the dots and circles which turn syllables like “ho” (ホ) into “bo” (ボ) and “po” (ポ). Most Japanese seem to consider it “absolutely impossible” for a native speaker to have made such an incredibly basic error, let alone so many times.
Such bizarre and blatant errors seem to indicate not only a lack of proof-reading but also a curious lack of familiarity with the Japanese language, again prompting speculation that the game may be suffering from “China quality.”
2ch’s digest of FF14 oddities also includes duplicate player listings and a server with a grand total of 9 players logged in, 45 minutes after launch:
These and other incidents have all been very widely reported on the Japanese Internet, creating a major PR disaster amongst the very people who were the core audience for the previous game – speculation is now not just confined to whether the Final Fantasy series will suffer an untimely end with XIV, but also whether Square Enix itself is in good condition.
I jusd dont see whap the problen is.
This gamr is amaping!
I think when a company such as SE releases a subscription based game they should release a very polished game. Not only do consumers have to pay the initial price of the game but the subscription for online content is a drain on my pockets that I wont welcome. Ive played many of the FF games up until now. i started to lose faith in the FF series around X-2 and I never got into FF11. FF13 was pretty good but lacked some of the depth of previous games. But now…After reading reviews and countless posts labeling this game garbage I think I will pass on 14. Sorry, but get your act together SE. Maybe next time…
that seems like such a simble thing how could you make an error as dump as that next they will missbell a major charicters name bathetic simbly bathetic
I fail to see how this will kill the franchise.
Oh my god, I think Square-Enix is trolling us and we’re falling for it Dx