Feast Differences between NA and JP

[SuperZay]

With regard to Feast meta on JP servers, I get the impression that they are much more respectful of their fellow players. It seems like putting the X over someone's head is tantamount to the worse possible insult you could give to their face.

And yet in my alts experience they don't mind blacklisting and kicking players from duties just because they have E set as game language. In fact, they have server-wide naming and shaming lists if you do some research.

[Myon88]

And yet in my alts experience they don't mind blacklisting and kicking players from duties just because they have E set as game language. In fact, they have server-wide naming and shaming lists if you do some research.

I can't say I've seen anything like that happen in all my years playing, but naming and shaming lists existing on forums like 2ch don't surprise me, you'll see the exact same from us in the equivalent settings (i.e not here or somewhere like Reddit because these are extremely heavily moderated places). No one's saying they're all saints or something who will overlook everything you do, they're just culturally predisposed to prefer to badmouth you behind your back instead of calling you out on the spot.

It's kind of a moot point, because in the course of normal play you shouldn't have to interact with Japanese players in the first place. Feast has no chat now, duty finder roulette type duties are trivial content that can be done silently, and it goes without saying you shouldn't be joining their PF listings for savage and what have you if you can't speak the language.

For better or for worse, westerners tend to be less conflict adverse and more brash, have bigger egos, and seem more willing to get into fights or inconvenience strangers if it benefits them. It means you're more likely to see them doing things like trying to pull mobs for the tank as a dps, quitting roulette duties if they get one they don't like, early pulling hunts, trying to fight to be MT when they aren't the B tank in alliance duties, sneaking into clear parties when they haven't cleared (and don't even the speak the language).

Sounds familiar huh, all the things people complain about on western datacenters. The mentality there is just different, if they get a slow single-pulling tank, they'll just grumble to themselves and put up with it without saying anything - things like that. That kind of civic mindedness might be a bit alien to westerners, so if you get the impression they treat E players badly - it's generally well deserved because someone doesn't know how to play nicely.