Why doesnt NA get a convention??

[Alhanelem]

The event itself might not be directly profitable, but it certainly does hype people for upcoming stuff and is good publicity.

(That being said, there's also a lot of exclusive merchandise for sale at these kinds of events, so it's not like there's no chance to take in some cash)

[Logandor]

I vote we start our own fest here in the U.S. Cosplay contests, epic game room where people can log in and game, drawings, ect. Not sure where most of the player base for the U.S. is located but we should have a really big one there and then some small ones located through out the nation. Example: If a large portion of the player base is on the east coast target it down to one major city there, then one for the midwest, south east coast, north west, and south west coast. I can bet your pretty dollar people would show up if they were interested. Or we could have it linked with the already popular anime/game conventions that do take place until it received enough interest to take off on its own.
Anyways I am glad they are streaming it at the very least we can see whats going on.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

SE doesn't hate America (capitalize it please). any percieved or real ignorance of any customer comment/complaint on this forum doesn't mean that SE "hates America." Sure, it might mean that they don't treat their customers as well as they should, but it has nothing to do with their opinion of the country itself.

You haven't paid enough attention to Japanese companies then. Also, america doesn't deserve to be capitalized.

[Alhanelem]

You haven't paid enough attention to Japanese companies then. Also, america doesn't deserve to be capitalized.

Then if you're in it, you should move out of it, and I mean it in the nicest way possible. If you don't like and respect your country, then do something about it, or find one that you CAN like and respect.

And I do pay attention to Japanese companies that do business here- some of which are more successful at doing it than our own in the same industry. I doubt they decided to do business here and do such a good job of it because they hate us.

[Zumi]

Fanfests especially the ones done in the US are done at a loss to SE. They don't make a profit from it and they are obviously on a tight budge for FFXI as it is. Probably why you don't see one.

[Behemothx]

Then if you're in it, you should move out of it, and I mean it in the nicest way possible. If you don't like and respect your country, then do something about it, or find one that you CAN like and respect.

And I do pay attention to Japanese companies that do business here- some of which are more successful at doing it than our own in the same industry. I doubt they decided to do business here and do such a good job of it because they hate us.

I thought the name was "United States of America", america itself is the continents of north and south america.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

I thought the name was "United States of America", america itself is the continents of north and south america.

It's usually "the Americas," and that would include the Caribbean (i.e. "West Indies.") "New World" may or may not include Australia/Oceania/etc, depending on who you talk to.

Meanwhile, citizens of the United States adopted the name "America" and "Americans" to distinguish themselves from the "Old World," considering themselves to be a new people, in contrast to the residents of "British North America" and "New Spain."

[Seiowan]

Then if you're in it, you should move out of it, and I mean it in the nicest way possible. If you don't like and respect your country, then do something about it, or find one that you CAN like and respect.

Easy enough to say, very hard to do. I'm sure everyone would love to change the world (goodness knows I'd love to sack most of the British Parliament), but we all live in it and have our own daily struggles to concern ourselves with first. Moving country is a vastly costly endeavour and it's not as if other countries don't have their own issues to deal with either.

There's no such thing as a perfect world.