Petition: French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish voice overs for Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XV has been in development since nine years and fans of the video game saga want it to be the ultimate gaming experience.

This is why fans around the globe started a petition to add more voice overs to Final Fantasy XV than Japanese and English.

French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish build a bigger part of the spoken languages in global sale territories and are already supported by publishers like Ubisoft or EA with professional voice overs. Even Square Enix has provided full localizations for games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Tomb Raider for the mentioned territories.

Surely there are true fans of Japanese anime and gaming, who prefer to stick to the original Japanese voice track, but on the ther hand this petition helps players, who enjoy good stories told in their mother tongue just like a movie blockbuster.

[Yi-Long]

I'm all for choice and options, but ONLY if it doesn't take away the original Japanese voices.

Also, adding all those languages would probably mean they would postpone the release of this game for at least 6 months orso in Europe.

[DarkOcelet]

Exactly, i want the Japanese voice in every version. The English VA is good but the Japanese VA is excellent.

[DrMack]

I dont want to erase the Japanese voice track, but the other languagees would just be an option

[DrMack]

I believe the game is still about a year away from release and since main development is being handled in Japan and localization for e.g. Europe in London and the local PR HGs, I think it would not impact the core development that much.

[Lucreto]

Once it doesn't delay the release.

[OrangePowerz]

When was it confirmed that it won't have voice overs in those languages?

[NoctisPendragon]

You never have them in FF but Tabata did talk about wanting to make an "Universal FF XV" or something like that.

[DrMack]

You are correct that Square Enix has not denied it, but if Square Enix is or was considering it - showing our demand is not wrong.

[NoctisPendragon]

All as DLC so , the game will barbely fit 1 Blue-Ray disc they said.

[DrMack]

Well, I think the idea Japanese audio track + voice track in local country + subtitles would be best. Afaik two audio tracks could fit as Tabata said.

Games like Fable 2 offered an English audio track for the German version as a DLC afterwards, since it didn't fit on the disc. FFXV could allow this, too of course

[Redempteur]

Lol and the game would be 6 months to 1 year late in europe ? No thanks

[DrMack]

It doesn't need to delay the launch, which is possibly still a year ahead. The core development team and localization team work beside each other

[Baka-akaB]

The logistic involved still means that it would ultimately . Hell it has for most other major mmos .

Still while i dont care to get anything but the japanese voices and subtitles , i can understand the demand . There are no reasons other countries should suffer dubious english dubs when it's not even their language , and when their money is worth the same (if not more with increased costs usually)

[ShinnokDrako]

Argh!!! No italian please!! They're going to riun the game =P Without counting the huge extra delay in Europe...

I've played so many games with italian voices and then changed to english or japanese... no, please...

[Spotie]

Seriously? And add how much time, complication, and cost to the development?

It'd be one thing if it was just text- which will probably be there anyway. But full voicing? That's asking a bit much.

[MasterCornholio]

I hope I have an option of either English or Japanese here in Spain. I would prefer Japanese since I'm studying the language but if that isn't possible then English.

However I will not buy the game if they force me to play it in Spanish. Spanish voice overs are horrible. Those crooked politicians get their talentless friends to do them.

P.S Thats why I import most of my games from the UK. Did you know that in the Spanish version of Wolfenstein the Nazis speak in Spanish with fake German accents?

[SarcasticDuck]

You can even put portuguese voices, I dont care! I dont know when, but when i play this game (because i dont have a ps4 yet) i will play it in japanese audio with eng/PT legends.

[Zsana_chann]

What we need is Japanese voiceover with German,Portuguese,Spanish...et c. subtitels!
Less work for SE, more fun for everyone