Question regarding blogs up on the Lodestone

A lot of the blogs are about things they like, stuff they've accomplished, etc
..it's a blog. Blog about whatever you want.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Perhaps the Japanese players are just more literate?

::runs for cover::

I'm teasing, mostly.

But seriously, even posting to these forums, the whole Tl;DR meme utterly destroys posts of any length because so many English speaking players don't want to read...let alone write, a long post or blog entry.

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As a teacher, I can sadly vouch that basic literacy isn't the 'in' thing anymore...

Yeah I honestly don't know what I'd blog about either. What I like and what I dislike about various parts of the game and things that I think should be added or changed. Problem though for me doing that is twofold. One, it's much easier to post about and discuss things you don't like or that you think should be changed. Having gone to art school, the crit method of pointing out the positives and then pointing out some criticisms and advice, so you are comprehensive and balanced is easier on a statuc piece than it is on something ongoing. Once you've discussed you positives there's an almost endless amount of things to criticize and I've done that here and feel it comes across too negative. And two, the game has already been through a rebirth and I really don't think much will change, and things to add are pretty slow and infinite to think about.

So, yeah, today I got two unidentifieds :D.

If you want, you can filter the blogs on the Lodestone main page by realm. Might not be that Japanese are more into blogging, it might be that it sorts by a certain Realm first that happens to be Japanese.

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Originally Posted by DragonFlyy

If you want, you can filter the blogs on the Lodestone main page by realm. Might not be that Japanese are more into blogging, it might be that it sorts by a certain Realm first that happens to be Japanese.

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Seconded.

I have my community wall filters to blog + english main language. There's still not a lot, but if you watch the feed you'll see a small community of people who read and comment on each other's stuff.

I just hate the word "blog", that is all.

Their users don't get banned. Q_Q

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Don't you mean EnAy players? ;)

Seriously how hard is it to write Japanese or JP instead of JayPee.

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Jaypee is more cute.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie-Amber

well anyone can blog and JP just seem to do it more, don't like it? write a ENG blog :P

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I didn't say I didn't like it, was just curious!

NA and EU players use Tumblr a lot. You can find lots of blogs about FFXIV there. Different cultures different ways of expressing.

All the coolest people have FFXIV Wordpress blogs.

But no, it's actually a got a lot to do with the way the Lodestone filters blog posts as others have mentioned. For whatever reason it doesn't default to the language for your account. There actually is a decently-sized community that blogs on the English side of things. I made sure to filter them once (but for some reason it defaulted back the next time I logged in) and was actually pretty surprised at how much was actually going on for us.