Going back to JP servers...

[Velox]

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You're making a LOT of assumptions about the nature of the playerbase in your post. Yes, I can see numbers, but those numbers don't really indicate anything because I have no idea of the nature of the playerbase. For all I know, a larger portion of the NA/EU playerbase prefers to roleplay over farming EX mounts. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't have the ability to farm mounts, it just means they choose not to. Same thing with people who prefer to play MMOs to strictly socialize, or focus 99% of their energies on crafting. Maybe more people choose to farm plants over farming coil. I don't know, so I can't draw any conclusions out of those numbers other than "well those are nice numbers."

My point being is that a number such as a % of the playerbase doesn't really MEAN anything by itself unless we know what that number is being compared against and how each member of the playerbase chooses to spend their time.

[SarcasmMisser]

My point being is that a number such as a % of the playerbase doesn't really MEAN anything by itself unless we know what that number is being compared against and how each member of the playerbase chooses to spend their time.

Yawn. The numbers being compared against are in the data. Here look

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/luckybanc...1/7158d9d5.png

This person put about 1000 times more effort compiling this data and making it useful than you did defending incompetence. If you put in the slightest amount of effort critiquing the data you would find a very big flaw that makes % comparisons problematic (there is one) but instead went for the tired "people can do it they just don't want to". Which is a variable you didn't explain why it doesn't apply to JP players and you probably don't want to try unless you want to accidentally do the thing you accused me of doing.

[lvlagmarink]

"people can do it they just don't want to". Which is a variable you didn't explain why it doesn't apply to JP players and you probably don't want to try unless you want to accidentally do the thing you accused me of doing.

In my experience in the eu server, people also can do it but dont want to simply because they dont believe in randoms, calling them incompetence simply because they are a random, while cheering up and defending other players which comes from the same fc/ls wont critique thhem even if they fail.. And if the random makes ever the slightest mistake or things they dont like, they will badmouth em in FC or LS channel.. It'll be a huge badmouthh if the E players happen to find the random to be F.. With duty finder out of the way and less used in farming things, of course it'll be less ponies..