JP Community of this game

[OrionInerghem]

Would you run Coil of Bahamut or Titan hard with someone who can't understand any of your instructions? If you have 7/8 people talking in English, would you be ok to have the 8th member talking only Japanese and either having to translate everything every time (if one of you can speak Japanese) or not being able to explain anything at all?

probably not, and they are the same.
they are just being practical.

Playing FFXI for 9 years, I can't tell you how many times I would reach out to JP players only to get "JP ONLY", I would be like we're 5/6 and only need XXX job, You want to wait solo? "JP ONLY".

5/6 People...... for an experience party where everyone knows exactly what to and has Auto Translate.... But nice try on fitting my XI experience with Some JP players for mind numbing exp grind; to the hardest event in FFXIV.


And for the record JP players would join my party occasionally, and we were nice, and they were nice, and everyone had a really nice time! Painting one community as All this and another as ALL that, just creates more "We're better than you" or "you're lesser than us"

The truth is; some JP look down their nose at NA players as complete trash (but would never say so)
And some NA players, act just like the trash that JP players would hate

But there is a core community of this game, and it was in FFXI too where it doesn't matter which country you come from, where being different isn't bad, where everyone is courteous, and it's truly an international experience where you get to make new friends, and that community is somewhere on all servers.

[Volcano]

This was the exact same in FFXI, whenever i partied with jp players they were usually more polite and MORE forgiving, They also did that same thing, those magic words nice to meet you and bowed on every invite.

I sometimes wish i could learn JP cause they are far less stressful to deal with then NA players, now don't get me wrong there are some A-Hole jps out there, racist and what not. but they are few.

I really should not be in a community where i have to fear making a mistake due to backlash or getting angry at random, common mistakes. like recent i saw a tank blow up on a healer when it was entirely the tanks fault he died due to basic stupidty (long story)

[Hysterior]

But nice try on fitting my XI experience with Some JP players for mind numbing exp grind; to the hardest event in FFXIV

Of course I was exaggerating, but I guess you can get my point
The auto-function is limited and it can be frustrating having one member who cannot understand the rest of you
I probably don't need to make you a cross-cultural class, everybody know that Japanese people search synergy and group harmony. And by definition, foreigners (being a gaijin i think I have a very good experience about this pretty much every single day), we are more complicated to deal with and it can be bothersome to include us.

But no misunderstanding, there are some extremely open Japanese people (those who speak english mostly) and if you are in the group, they will always treat you well
they will just think twice before letting you in in the first place. But once you are there, you are there ^^