Community divide in Legacy servers

[Malakhim]

Not having any experience on Masamune, and thus no experience with the problem at hand, I'd really be careful with throwing the race card around. Not wanting to play with someone, regardless of the reason, isn't the same thing as actively engaging in crimes against/denying legal rights to someone based on reasons of race or ethnicity. They're saying they'd rather not play with you, not to go kill yourself for being _insert ethnicity here_.

I could easily say I don't want to play with non-English speaking or non-Spanish speaking players for reasons of ease of communication, rather than anything else. There was a post earlier in the thread that could have approximated a racist attack in the whole "Japanese people only" message in the party finder, but even that is suspect. Not saying JP players are any better or worse, but I think we can all admit to ourselves that the NA community DOES a reputation for having a high incidence of entitled assholes as well. Maybe Japanese players don't want to deal with people who are potentially "full of themselves" or whatever other reason and would rather stick with their own. Maybe there are other player communities in the French and German communities that feel the same way

That's just my initial perspective and possibly far from the reality, so take it with a grain of salt. That said, I really can't think of anything the OP can do outside of what several posters have already said. Report 'em, and while many think otherwise, SE DOES take valid(keyword) concerns seriously, or worse case scenario, bounce from the server. Sorry to hear about that. The game's community is toxic enough without this sort of thing happening.

[Shenandoah]

DO YOU JP ONRYSTAND?!

haven't laughed that much in ages lol, thanks for the share XD

[ZyloSladek]

On Balmung, there is not much of an issue here with that kind of issues, however, there is a sense of bad attitudes in PFs regardless of language barriers Probably because I am on a NA data center. My FC has German, French and Chinese players whom play without much issue as they can speak and understand English.

I think we should be glad that there is an option for server transfers. I was on Rabanastre in 1.0 where I was force to merged with two other servers, eventually becoming...I guess Masamune. I left and made a new character.

I do not feel it is right that transfers were highly requested, then when it is finally implemented; there are complaints that the pricing is too high for some.

I originally left Balmung because of the ping issue to go to Masamune(I live in Asia.) Now for another transfer to get away from this shitty situation.

[Melithea]

It's really hard to blame them. I mean, have you played with the other English speakers?

[ZyloSladek]

It's really hard to blame them. I mean, have you played with the other English speakers?

Yes. Some are assholes. Some are nice people. Some are good. Some suck. Think this holds to be the same for most of the player base.

[Yarikh]

I have avoided PF because of this whole jp only thing for the most part. And have only relied on either df or fc runs.

Easy for some folks to say just transfer, it is not as though we picked the jp server for the jp people. We just live closer to the jp data center and the latency is much better there than if we were in na eu servers. :| not to mention the timezone difference. Not waking up at 4am just to raid, no thanks.

Sorry to hear about that OP, I think ideally we EN players in Masamune should be helping each other out instead of shunning inexperienced players.

At the moment, our static is helping / training some of our members who have yet to clear titan x and turn 5.

[Ozz]

I know in a recent NZ gamer interview with Yoship (from his Australian media tour) he did say he was quite aware of the latency/language issues Oceanic players face, he stayed up til 4am doing titan. He said an Aussie data centre would be expensive however next time they add new servers he was going to look at the issue again.

[Yurihyuga]

this isn't new news happened in FFXI. Remember responses from Japanese players using auto translate with things like English, No thanks.
We were given separate servers for a reason.

[BobbinT]

this isn't new news happened in FFXI. Remember responses from Japanese players using auto translate with things like English, No thanks.
We were given separate servers for a reason.

Ha ha

Unfortunately, there's new issue called latency. This not even really big problem in XI since so far I haven't experience any content there that requires precision moving, but it does in XIV. There's no XIV Titan in XI.

Again, I would really rather play at US/EU server, but for crying out loud... fix that damn latency! ><

DO YOU JP ONRYSTAND?!

lol

haven't seen that for awhile XD

[Lunavi]

I say this once again: It is simply people wanting to play with others who understands. I know I am "racist" against french people who refuse to speak english even though I only have the English box checked. If someone join on the premise they can speak English I expect them to speak english. just like when people asks for XPd only do not want people who are first timers to join.

It is really really simple like that. If someone can speak English I do not care from where they are, but if they can't, sorry bro.