I don't find it nice that it's expected of us to learn Japanese to be accepted by their community, as mentioned by a few posters, but there are a few really good points here.

I guess I just have to respect how they feel, but I will keep trying to communicate as best I can. I know there are a lot of nice JPs, and a lot more that attempt to speak English so we understand better. I did notice this "cold shoulder" thing got worse when the first huge server merge occurred, and a lot of them moved to different servers within the first week; maybe it's just Asura. Highly populated server = a higher chance to run into assholes. And no, the "auto-trans update" wasn't an excuse to bring up poor PS2 and its limitations XP So that's on whoever mentioned it