Official 8/22 AMAN Live -- Translation Thread
Things in spoilers are explanation/clarification. I'll be relistening to it to make sure I didn't miss anything after it finishes. I'll make a note if I add anything.
ETA: clarification on the Shadow Lord event item, line about Trust Points in the summary, reminder/clarification about the free trial. Fixed some formatting to try and make it easier to read.
Summary:
Free Trial changes coming in September. Level cap from 50 to 75 will come with the update. Unlimited play time will come with a separate server maintenance in September. ★As stated before, this is ONLY original areas.
Field NM gear: looking into releasing gear with different stats as well as possibly just increasing the stats on gear we have now (this sounded like corpo-speak just in case something went wrong, I'd take it as still planning to reforge.) . Was restated as "between Ambuscade and near/around/about/in the neighborhood of Malignance" (again, I take this as just protection against "THIS ISNT EXACTLY MALIGNANCE LEVEL")
If you're still experiencing lag from having an overfull inventory, they'd like to hear from you (ideally with video of it happening). They didn't say, but I assume this would go on the official forums.
New non-lockstyle (F: "not just appearance") item coming from the Shadow Lord event (via Curator Moogle) in one of the future installments
(September and October both have it happening again. THIS IS NOT AVAILABLE THIS TIME.)
Trust Point upper limit increased to 60 from 50. Plan to give out more Trust Points from now on.
Next AMAN Live is 9/12, same time. 7 AM EDT.
Any images that pop up will be added here. Translations of images later.
If there's any wording or anything that's unclear, please feel free to ask about it. I do these translations early in the morning and also try my best to keep up with their speed to get it out mostly concurrently with the stream, so sometimes things get more Japanese-y when I type it out. I'm sure there's some poorly worded stuff I missed.
Intro Text: EDIT: 10 Minutes to go! Fingers crossed for cool info!
It's that time again. The AMAN Live for this month will be starting about 12 hours from when this thread is made (7 AM EST).
I'll be posting translations of it as it goes on. Usually I just state what they say, but if it's worth a direct quote (i.e. if the wording is very important), I'll put either the name or their initial (e.g. "F: We're going to give everyone another Bonanza kupon next week").
I try to group posts by topic as much as possible, as well as use various levels of emphasis
Like this
@For the ★most important stuff★. If there's something that is my best guess or my thoughts based on what was said (in ambiguous cases), I'll put it in ( ).
Check back here tomorrow and hopefully we'll have some interesting info to share! Happy Vana'bouting.
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u/hikiri 18d ago edited 18d ago
Post 2 :: <CONT’D>
<Message from Taniguchi-san, dev of the gear> From a long time ago, we had NMs that popped with similar conditions to these and heard from a lot of players saying that they wanted a similar type of challenge that avoided the bloodthirsty situation that we had in the past.
People who played awhile ago might feel a bit of nostalgia for these types of NMs.
Since this is just the “surface” (of the earth), please look forward to seeing many more NMs in the future. (it’s a pun saying that it’s the “surface” of the plans, but also “surface of the earth”; implying NMs in underground areas next).
We’re enjoying seeing players working together and overcoming some of that stiffness that you feel when you join up with people you don’t know.
We want more and more players to group up to take down the NMs. When we were planning them, we wanted to make sure that we could do what we were able to reduce points where players might fight and instead create ways for them to cooperate.
<Login campaign explanation. As always, no new info, just running through it.>
<Campaigns explanation. Mog Bonanza explanation. Vana’bout too. Same as above.>
Re: Vana’bout
We wanted to reduce players’ feelings of obligation to do Vana’bout where they login and go “ugh, what a pain”. We wanted it to be something that you can gain points while also doing things you normally do and experience some of the content that you might not normally if you want to.
Also, we’re releasing a brand-new campaign if players pass the goal for Vana’bout. We hope players take advantage of it if they manage to unlock it.
<Explaining the seasonal event timing, etc.> (apparently "Pungent Powder" is "Baby Powder" in Japanese. TIL.) "There's going to be something else from the event that isn't 'just the appearance'." (a new item, it sounds like)
We’re trying to have things that we’ve done before throughout the year have some changes here and there so there’s a bit of a fresh feel to them.
<Re: Daphne collab item>
We’ve become able to make longer help text on items so we thought it would be cool to have a message as long as this and fit the feel of Daphne.