JP Community of this game

[HealBus]

They are equally as bad, they are just more secretive about it. NA just wears its thoughts on its sleeves, JP will hide it behind a mask. If you have ever done business in Japan you'll know what I am talking about.

[Kuvu]

They are equally as bad, they are just more secretive about it. NA just wears its thoughts on its sleeves, JP will hide it behind a mask. If you have ever done business in Japan you'll know what I am talking about.

Also they can say something that to us is being polite but they are actually insulting us. Most people not knowing the cultural don't understand this and think they are always so polite, a lot is lost in translation sadly.

[Eylev]

They are equally as bad, they are just more secretive about it. NA just wears its thoughts on its sleeves, JP will hide it behind a mask. If you have ever done business in Japan you'll know what I am talking about.

Cant compare business with games..

[Animation]

Cant compare business with games..

People do whatever to make their point valid, even if it means comparing murder to flowers. That's how you know they've lost the argument.

[HealBus]

People do whatever to make their point valid, even if it means comparing murder to flowers. That's how you know they've lost the argument.

If you think that comparing social interactions in gauging whether a culture is "superior" or not as stated by people in this thread is the same as comparing murder to flowers then I am done with this thread. Was my mistake entering with a contrasting view in a thread clearly meant as a circle jerk.

[Eylev]

If you think that comparing social interactions in gauging whether a culture is "superior" or not as stated by people in this thread is the same as comparing murder to flowers then I am done with this thread. Was my mistake entering with a contrasting view in a thread clearly meant as a circle jerk.

Cant say i totally disagree but what i post earlier on is what i been experience in FFXI for 8yrs and that is the fact for me.. But we cant just compare games and business together as both are 2 different structures..

[Sterob]

They are equally as bad, they are just more secretive about it. NA just wears its thoughts on its sleeves, JP will hide it behind a mask. If you have ever done business in Japan you'll know what I am talking about.

funny that people, especially US often say that on the internet people will become a jerk due to anonymous, thus the person will always be meaner, asshole-er online, than when they meet people face to face.

[Fuddy]

funny that people, especially US often say that on the internet people will become a jerk due to anonymous, thus the person will always be meaner, asshole-er online, than when they meet people face to face.

This is true. It's true for the Japanese as much as the NA players. When people can both hide behind anonymity and not have to directly see how their words and actions effect people then empathy goes out the window. The point HealBus made really hit's it on the nose. Japanese culture is different and what to the Japanese is rude actually will sometimes seem polite on the surface to a westerner. The culture and language is just that different.

Japanese players can be nasty as well but they do it in the Japanese way. Which is usually kind of passive-aggressive I'd say.

Romanji+Autotranslate? How you do that? Can teach me?

I just mean I'd type in Romanji and then where appropriate I'd use the auto-translate function. So I would type something that looks like: (Flash) wo motto tsukatte kudasai.

I do that because I don't know what the ability Flash is called in Japanese. You can activate it by pressing Tab after you type part of the english word. That said Romanji is SO tiring to read I always use a keyboard that can type Japanese when I can.

[Tupsi]

They are equally as bad, they are just more secretive about it. NA just wears its thoughts on its sleeves, JP will hide it behind a mask. If you have ever done business in Japan you'll know what I am talking about.

No, they're not secretive about it - you either are or are not a jerk about things. If you have ever done business in any country you'll know what point you were trying to make.