JP Only

[Hanemakikaze]

5 years playing FFXI - Never got a JP only

[Victor]

5 years playing FFXI - Never got a JP only
FFXIV since Beta - Never got a JP only

Maybe it was just a bad day, its not the norm

How is this even possible?

[RedAffinity]

There are a lot of Japanese players, who are absolutely amazing. Language barrier is why a lot of them group together. Also their culture is vastly different than ours, we come off differently to them than we may realize.

[Silma]

I'll give you a bunch of reason too :
afk
brb
afk food
afk bio
forgot a step in my quest brt
I just hit level XX, I go back to Ulda to get my new weapon
afk someone's at the door
etc
etc
etc

The day people will respect their PTs, they will get a bit more respect (perhaps) from other players.
To explain a bit further, when i have only 3hours to play, i hate it when people go afk for a thousand reason... I am not from Japan, but i guess this is a reason why they dont want Western players when they can.

[Ilean]

Haven't gotten a single JP ONRY in XIV since I started on open beta, BUT I see a lot of exp/raid shouts in japanese that don't use autotranslate at all which is pretty much an implicit JP ONRY...

I am pro-regional-servers as long as people from other regions can still pick them if for some reason they want to.

Higher player density that speaks your language AND less latency. {Yes, please}.

[Zenaku]

{I can understand a little. Japanese} ok now too http://translate.google.com/ PT誘ってください.

Now when i'm in the party i try and translate the most i can if they say something funny i'll w. Anyways work for me most Japanese are going to let you join if you try and speak and try to talk to them in Japanese.

[Dreadnought]

I think the fact that Yoshi P is implementing regional servers is a good sign that its pretty solidly wanted on the JP side and many on the western wouldnt mind having.

[Antipika]

5 years playing FFXI - Never got a JP only

All I got to say is that we didn't play the same XI, also :

[Atoli]

Aaaah, this topic again.

I rarely see JP only parties, and only once I was really not allowed to join when I was using Auto-translate and reading what they said in google translate (I'm not using that to translate from English to Japanese though, because I know just how horrible it must be for the Japanese players to read that).
This only applies for grind parties though, because I totally understand why nobody would want to do Ifrit with somebody who wouldn't understand a word

And about the "japanese don't like when you go afk all the time or say brb for all kinds of stuff"-answer:
That's totally not true.
I've played with some extremely nice Japanese players who were all okay with me being stupid and getting arrows from Ul'dah instead of the next camp, or with me DC'ing about every 10 minutes.
Actually, I met way more NA or EU parties who kicked me just because I had DC once.
Like "Uh, it's too much of an effort to reinvite you.."

Btw, just so you know, people don't act that way just because they are non-japanese.
Impolite players act that way, and please don't equate "non-japanese" with "impolite" >.>

[Delsus]

I have never in FFXIV seen the words JP only or JP onry, but most JP shouts I see are entirely Japanese, I might try to jump in one sometime see what happens, but I do agree that it has alot to do with the language barrier, for example I was in an ifrit fiight with 2 Japanese people, we had somone in the party that had not tanked it before so the Japanese people were telling them tanking positions (how JP do it) now the tank did know japanese, but so we all knew what we were doing they had to communicate in english and it was quite confusing because they didnt speak much english.

Personnaly I respected them for communicating in english when they didnt know much, but I think some of the confusion over communication could have been one reason why we failed and didnt fully understand how we were doing it, language barrier can be a rough thing to get over.