Let's Talk: EN players in JP data centre

[TaleraRistain]

I'm on Aether and it's the same as Nimura. I was just in Breach the other day and we got to the last boss and multiple people were like "cutscenes" "two in cutscenes" etc. Ironically the folks in their group were then like "Or they'll skip them lol" and we went ahead and proceeded. But there was no pressure to skip and since roulette curses me with that raid a lot lately, I can attest that we do try to wait. There was another instance in Bunker not too long back where this guy was just being an absolute turd about people watching cutscenes. Calling them weebs and saying they could watch at the inn and why should we wait for people who couldn't bother to do it before this point. He both got told off by half the raid in alliance chat and nobody would raise him when he died. Yeah, he got a carry on that fight, but the rest of the raid still enjoyed watching him floor tank and whine about it.

I see hunt trains wait all the time when I'm out gathering. We also waited all the time in Eureka. I remember the Cheer emotes were quite active when we were waiting for people to assemble. Do we have the jerk early pullers? Yes. Every server has bad eggs. But they usually get told off by more than one person for doing it.

Nimura is right that you won't be greeted every time. Like Nimura said, some may not have a keyboard. Some greet with an auto command and I have no issue with that. My default is "\o". Sometimes there isn't a greeting but we chat in other areas, too. Or just the "tyfp" "gg" at the end. There is usually at least that.

B being main tank was something I never heard of until people started talking about JP. Especially in WoD, it's either A or C since B means B's healers can't go into the belly on Cerberus since they have to babysit the tank. But generally it's kind of whoever wants the job and outside of a rare exception, all the tanks stay near each other so they can take over quickly if one goes down. It's only when someone wants to troll by starting a Provoke war from the other side that they spin the boss or a newbie that people try to help guide.

I've seen people try to throw up the vote dismiss after one wipe in PF groups, lol. Or even in alliance raids sometimes. Generally everyone is like "WTF" and "Leave if you're that impatient". Far more often after the one or two impatient ones have left, I see everyone else stubbornly staying like "We WILL pass this, or die trying". Even Aether does have a point where we'll toss in the towel and a vote dismiss goes through, but we definitely gave it our all before that. I do think that is a difference, though, because it is in our culture to not think as well of someone who gives up what we consider too easily. I *have* seen DF groups that want to keep going that will kick someone at their request who doesn't, though, so they don't get a penalty, but that's usually after a few tries.

I think it's fine if JP doesn't like shout or yell, but honestly it would be kind of boring and rather cold feeling without it on NA. But I come from old school MMOs where shout was our primary communication. And I don't really mind the content. There are people who advertise their clubs or FCs. Some of those are quite creative. There are actual conversations about things, or just general silliness as we wait for roulette. And what I like the most (at least on my server) is that if someone asks a question they get tons of people willing to give them the answer. Yeah, we get the occasional set of folks being snippy, but even then people tell them to take it to /tell. It's very rare we don't police ourselves in areas with high shout activity. When I go somewhere and see a lot of shout chat, it feels warm and alive and active for me.