How do you feel about them talking about divided servers?

[Burn]

I want them, I played on one of the oldest FFXI servers that were very JP dominated for atleast the first year or so, let me tell you how that experience turned out when I was pioneering the endgame as one of the first NA LS's on an old jp server.

They held the HNM's all day so they would pop more favorable times for them.
They called us "Dirty Foreigner's that don't deserve to fight Fafnir" Despite never playing with them in the past.
They would attempt to MPK us with Roses, spiders when they didn't get claim on Nidhogg.
They would deny me and countless other people exp invites the moment we answered (yes, please) with autotranslator to an exp pt invite.

I remember one JP replying to me "(English) (Perfect Dodge)" his name was Gottfred and was in one of the upper tier JP ls's that had a bad rep for hating on NA's.

The few nice jp's I did play with were so few and far inbetween, I'm not going to throw all jp's under the bus because theres knuckleheads in all walks of life but if given the chance to play on an NA server only i'm taking it without question because my last experience wasent pleasant by any means. I don't think XIV suffers from this as much right now because the game is still in flux in mid reform.

This is just my own experience, theres no right or wrong but I don't want any of that playing into future encounters with people once the game starts flowing with people when we start getting closer to 2.0.

[Delsus]

I want them, I played on one of the oldest FFXI servers that were very JP dominated for atleast the first year or so, let me tell you how that experience turned out when I was pioneering the endgame as one of the first NA LS's on an old jp server.

They held the HNM's all day so they would pop more favorable times for them.
They called us "Dirty Foreigner's that don't deserve to fight Fafnir" Despite never playing with them in the past.
They would attempt to MPK us with Roses, spiders when they didn't get claim on Nidhogg.
They would deny me and countless other people exp invites the moment we answered (yes, please) with autotranslator to an exp pt invite.

I remember one JP replying to me "(English) (Perfect Dodge)" his name was Gottfred and was in one of the upper tier JP ls's that had a bad rep for hating on NA's.

The few nice jp's I did play with were so few and far inbetween, I'm not going to throw all jp's under the bus because theres knuckleheads in all walks of life but if given the chance to play on an NA server only i'm taking it without question because my last experience wasent pleasant by any means. I don't think XIV suffers from this as much right now because the game is still in flux in mid reform.

Let me put it to you this way on my server on FFXI all the NA HNMLS members were complete asses, MPKing for claim, treating all other LS's like inferior rubbish, Dynamis jacking etc etc, I could go on.

The fact is most HNMLS were elitests and complete assholes, I had been MPK'd and had dyna or limbus jacked many times by HNMLS, all they cared about was getting the best gear and using members, no one else mattered.

Its not a JP problem you are discussing, its a HNMLS problem and most of those come from Japan or NA, the Japanese are not a racist people in general, the ones I have seen have all been nice, also when I talked to a Japanese teacher (from Japan origanally) she was actually suprised about the JPonry mentality.

I think people could be suprised if they give us the choice of regional and global servers about how many JP stay, on the other hand they could think they are the only ones staying and because of language problems with NA and EU people they would change as well because they dont wanna be the only JP on the server.

Edit: wonder if Reinheart would be willing to make a post on the JP forums to see how many JP players would choose regional and global servers, just out of curiosity