More infos on japanese version - 17/04/2009

[lyankyj]

Cori from AionHun translated today's official japanese announcement
regarding Aion's japanese debut, some interesting infos nontheless.



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The Tower of Aion

That's right, they slightly modified the title of the game.
Why would you wanna to say 'Eternity' twice in the same sencence, right?

(is it me or the font used for the words beside Aion is kinda lame?
I know it should be the same font, still it looks kinda funny,
that 't', 'w' and 'r' are like from a Harry Potter movie.. - Lyana)






Names

Also, they announced the names of the schools/classes:
(might seem a bit funny to us, but they are not really different
from their korean version and ofc for them it makes more sense)

Japanese version - Our version

Swordman - Warrior
SwordWing (重装近接戦闘) - Gladiator
ShieldWing (盾役) - Templar

Striker - Scout
BowWing (遠隔戦闘) - Ranger
ShadowWing (軽装近接戦闘) - Assassin

Wizard - Mage
SpiritWing (召喚＆変身) - Spiritmaster
SpellWing (魔法攻撃＆CC) - Sorcerer

Cleric - Priest
CureWing (回復職) - Cleric
ChantWing (バフ職) - Chanter


If you want to pronounce the faction names in japanese, they call them:

Elyos - Tenkai (天界)
Asmodian - Mazoku (魔族)
Balaur - Ryuuzoku (竜族)

(anime lovers will appreciate these names^^)



Betas, PEs and such

In addition, they shared details regarding their plans for different phases of testing in Japan:



・June 5. ～　Family&Friends Test
・June 12. ～　Closed Beta Test
・Mid-Late-June ～　Preview Event
・July ～　Open Beta Test


Official Japanese Site

Also, the official japanese site has been opened, 'though it's currently offline.

Official Japanese Site - aion.plaync.jp - Currently not available






That's it for now, we will keep doing translations from Japan, but I'll only post them on AS if threads
won't be derailed and closed for being spammed by the angry mob (towards NC's actions).
Fat chance, I know..

[raving]

good post...keep us informed..im sure some of us will join this beta as well

[Kammi]

Wanna know what do we have to do in order to enter the closed beta test.

[Freiya]

lol seem like us NA/EU got the short end of the stick with the worse division of NCsoft.

[Ariel]

Didn't we have to get Aion before Japan??????? -****ed off-

[Vulcan]

I hope Aion will be a hit in Japan. That's a bit lame that the changed the name...

[DemonXaphan]

Just get over it people, we all know your disappointed with NCWest.

Thank lyankyj, i see the Japanese version is being personalized to fit their localization and it fits them well and i see why you said it is redundant to say eternity twice in their language.

[l30z1nh0w]

I prefer the "normal" name, this new one sounds like a movie XD

[Frylock72]

So I'm guessing that Aion means Eternity in Japanese, then? Only reason why I can see they changed the name.

Good news to hear, I kind of like the name 'Spellwing', 'Curewing' and 'Chantwing'.

[Chalky]

Aion isn't actually being translated. They are simply waiting for the game to become sentient and learn the language of the next country they want to export it to.

It's taking a while since it has to learn every single language on the entire planet in geographical order before it can learn English and be released in the west.

On a slightly more serious note, is there any reason why the game is taking so much longer to come out here? I mean, how many other languages is it going to be translated into before it is in English? Are all these languages suddenly so much simpler than ours?

[Angelworks]

Originally Posted by raving

good post...keep us informed..im sure some of us will join this beta as well

Is this really beneficial - other than getting a really early preview of the game? Without knowing Chinese (for the cbt) or Japanese I really wonder if English only players are actually hurting the beta process by not only not providing feedback and reporting bugs, but also causing unnecessary load and queues for regional players.

[churn]

Originally Posted by Chalky

On a slightly more serious note, is there any reason why the game is taking so much longer to come out here? I mean, how many other languages is it going to be translated into before it is in English? Are all these languages suddenly so much simpler than ours?

well we would hope that the translations are simultaneous

I hope one group of guys isn't trying to translate it from korean into japanese and then when they finish that, they'll start working on the english version. Unless those guys would be geniuses, I don't think those translations would be very good anyways XD

[Chalky]

Originally Posted by churn

well we would hope that the translations are simultaneous

I hope one group of guys isn't trying to translate it from korean into japanese and then when they finish that, they'll start working on the english version. Unless those guys would be geniuses, I don't think those translations would be very good anyways XD

Exactly my point. So why does ours take so much longer?

It seems strange to me that the schedule has this arbitrary gap between regional releases. I understand that Korea would be first... but then we have a three month gap, China *three month gap* Japan *three month gap* NA/EU

That's a very neat release schedule. Doesn't seem terribly realistic for multiple translations being performed simultaneously though.

Why does the west get such low priority?

[Gotcha]

・June 5. ～　Family&Friends Test
・June 12. ～　Closed Beta Test
・Mid-Late-June ～　Preview Event
・July ～　Open Beta Test

Hmm interesting, our F&F Test has been announced a while ago (maybe it started already huh?) so i assume that the test will last for - at least - a few MONTHS while they are testing it in one WEEK, the japanese are either more hardworking than we are or we are way more lazy than they are..seems a bit odd.

I hate it to be traded like this. :/

[Eien]

Originally Posted by Chalky

Exactly my point. So why does ours take so much longer?

It seems strange to me that the schedule has this arbitrary gap between regional releases. I understand that Korea would be first... but then we have a three month gap, China *three month gap* Japan *three month gap* NA/EU

That's a very neat release schedule. Doesn't seem terribly realistic for multiple translations being performed simultaneously though.

Why does the west get such low priority?

This kind of thing makes me wonder then about western opinions of the game being priority then. It just seems like if there is a problem with something that needs to be changed that we will get thrown in the back before something is done about it. Already not looking good for NA/EU players.