[Discussion] Possible language barrier in Crystal Tower?

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11-28-2013, 03:38 PM
Thorauku

[Discussion] Possible language barrier in Crystal Tower?

As we all know, Crystal Tower is made up of 24 people (3 Full Parties).

While it is an exciting feat, there's a possibility of Language Barrier in communicating between parties esp. to those players who play in JP servers.

Share you thoughts on this.
11-28-2013, 03:40 PM
XainTheGreat

Crystal Tower has Raid Finder written all over it. Im thinking that the majority of the fights will just be zerg fests with mechanics that only need to be followed if its got anything to do with 1 shotting a tank. I dont think you are going to need to communicate anything to anyone. Just pwn stuff in the face and kill it before it kills you
11-28-2013, 03:42 PM
Thorauku

I have yet to find any links/video regarding it, so I can't really tell if it's just like CM wherein you can YOLO inside.
11-28-2013, 03:44 PM
Brises

Duty finder has separate servers for Japan and NA. In fact I believe there are 3 separate df data centers based on regions. I'm not sure why that wouldn't apply to CT also.
11-28-2013, 03:50 PM
Thorauku

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brises

Duty finder has separate servers for Japan and NA. In fact I believe there are 3 separate df data centers based on regions. I'm not sure why that wouldn't apply to CT also.

While it is true that DF has separate servers for JP and NA/EU, the players within it aren't.

i.e Tonberry (JP Server) is most likely an unofficial server for Oceanic people, while it is grouped with another JP Server, let's say Tiamat (just an example) that's filled with JP people, the language barrier will be present when two players from different server registered in Duty Finder.

While there is an option in Duty Finder to only select English players, it seems that it doesn't work perfectly, as you'd need around 1-2 hours queue time if you only select English Language in a JP Server.
11-28-2013, 03:54 PM
Brises

You mean players that choose to play on foreign servers? I assume if they do so they feel comfortable with the language. I have never found anyone through the NA df that could not understand English.
11-28-2013, 03:57 PM
Thorauku

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brises

You mean players that choose to play on foreign servers? I assume if they do so they feel comfortable with the language. I have never found anyone through the NA df that could not understand English.

Yes, players who chose to play on Datacenters that is near to their country.

I for one being a SEA player, I chose to play in JP servers, as the latency is only minimal there.
11-28-2013, 03:59 PM
Obysuca

Quote:

Originally Posted by XainTheGreat

Crystal Tower has Raid Finder written all over it. Im thinking that the majority of the fights will just be zerg fests with mechanics that only need to be followed if its got anything to do with 1 shotting a tank. I dont think you are going to need to communicate anything to anyone. Just pwn stuff in the face and kill it before it kills you

That's what I fear it might end up being :/ Just people bashing buttons as fast as they can...like fates
11-28-2013, 04:23 PM
Asiaine

none of the other dungeons require any communication, and for the most part, have none. Lucky to see someone say hi at the start and 'bb' (not even bye o.o) at the end.
11-28-2013, 04:31 PM
Dochas

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brises

You mean players that choose to play on foreign servers? I assume if they do so they feel comfortable with the language. I have never found anyone through the NA df that could not understand English.

You mean players who play on the servers near them instead of the opposite side of the world? I don't speak Japanese even though I'm an hour flight from Japan.
11-28-2013, 04:40 PM
Genjisamurai

Did they say if CT will have lockouts?
11-28-2013, 05:07 PM
Ryans

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thorauku

As we all know, Crystal Tower is made up of 24 people (3 Full Parties).

While it is an exciting feat, there's a possibility of Language Barrier in communicating between parties esp. to those players who play in JP servers.

Share you thoughts on this.

You can pick your language choices in the Duty Finder window. If you don't want to play with French, German, and Japanese as an English speaker, you don't have to. If you pick one language, you don't play with people that picked all 4 languages as far as I'm aware.

From what I read, it's more of 3 parties in the same dungeon but taking three different paths. They will probably meet up eventually, but it still seems like you only worry about what your party is doing.

And yes, I'm fairly certain they said no lockout Genjisamurai.
11-28-2013, 05:15 PM
Dano

auto translator, make use of it
11-28-2013, 05:17 PM
SarcasmMisser

Use auto-translator, it's no different than any of your other interactions on JP servers.

Alternatively you can just uncheck jp in duty finder and get grouped with other english speakers, people seem to be planning on doing this anyway to increase the chance of getting put together.
11-28-2013, 05:30 PM
Valcro

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thorauku

As we all know, Crystal Tower is made up of 24 people (3 Full Parties).

While it is an exciting feat, there's a possibility of Language Barrier in communicating between parties esp. to those players who play in JP servers.

Share you thoughts on this.

I suppose if the content is hard enough, even the AT feature will not be enough. It all worked out fine in FFXI as far as doom and gloom goes. So i want to say it'll work out fine here, too. But FFXIV is much more fast paced and unforgiving than FFXI ever was. But the way I see it is, requiring 24 and being hyped as the casual player end game, I don't suspect there is going to be a dire need to communicate strategy in detail.
11-28-2013, 05:40 PM
Reiterpallasch

Choosing to use the autotranslator instead of simply playing with people who speak your own language, is like giving up your car so you can ride to work on a seatless bike.
11-28-2013, 07:08 PM
Thorauku

Quote:

Originally Posted by Asiaine

none of the other dungeons require any communication, and for the most part, have none. Lucky to see someone say hi at the start and 'bb' (not even bye o.o) at the end.

Because the dungeons atm are too easy to begin with, and it only involves 8 PERSON, but with the coming of CT, which involves 24 persons, I doubt communication will be neglected esp. when one party can't proceed if the other party sucks, I believe you're starting to understand the point of this discussion. You don't want to end up leaving the dungeon because the other party can't finish their task and you can't explain things to them due to the limited use of Auto-Translate and such.
11-28-2013, 07:22 PM
Felis

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brises

You mean players that choose to play on foreign servers? I assume if they do so they feel comfortable with the language. I have never found anyone through the NA df that could not understand English.

You should play more with france people