Please enable data centre travel between regions

[DeNada]

How is the English speaking population received in Japan usually?

I seem to remember the legend of JP ONRY when NA players have to play with japanese players on their home servers in FF11 but is that still a thing in FF14?

[LaylaTsarra]

How is the English speaking population received in Japan usually?

I seem to remember the legend of JP ONRY when NA players have to play with japanese players on their home servers in FF11 but is that still a thing in FF14?

I have an alt on Chocobo and have always enjoyed playing there. Haven't been there so much lately but overall I've seen the experience as positive. I think there is a major language barrier for those wanting to play high level content there and hoping for DC travel. I need to get around at some point to getting my alt through the Endwalker story.

Relative to Materia they need to do something because 5 servers isn't enough to support game play and makes many duties hard to fill. Japan will have 32 servers soon and Materia has 5 something is wrong there and needs to be addressed. Given many on Materia are from Japan the Japan DC would be a good solution and it's the closest as well.

[hagare]

How is the English speaking population received in Japan usually?

I seem to remember the legend of JP ONRY when NA players have to play with japanese players on their home servers in FF11 but is that still a thing in FF14?

tbh, it's more like jpn language only rather than jpn only.

[Illmaeran]

How is the English speaking population received in Japan usually?

I seem to remember the legend of JP ONRY when NA players have to play with japanese players on their home servers in FF11 but is that still a thing in FF14?

The EN community primarily congregates on Elemental and as long as we follow JP social expectations we're generally well received. I've only ever played on Elemental servers so I have no reference for the other DCs. In general, we have no issues doing bilingual DF level activities where we don't really need to communicate with any depth. As far as PF goes, the majority of us avoid listings in Japanese unless we can read Japanese well enough to understand their communication. There are still "JP only" listings, generally for ease of communication reasons, and that's something EN speakers must respect. It can be quite nerve-wracking to not be able to communicate with people who don't understand your native language; in this case, the official standard language of the entire DC. Just like I wouldn't want to go into a party of all German speakers that I couldn't communicate with, I avoid JP Only listings.

It's essential to consider that Japanese culture is 180 degrees different from US culture (especially) and Western in general. Other than the folks who congregated on Tonberry and Kujata as the unofficial OCE/SEA servers, the vast majority of EN speakers on other servers, especially in the early years, specifically chose a JP world to get away from unpleasant behaviors and attitudes in Western MMOs and to some extent the NA/EU servers in this game. A lot of us are expats or people who'd lived in Japan in the past and intentionally accepted the social contract to abide by Japanese standards of conduct. Something as simple as using /say or /yell in public that are common on Western servers are a major faux-pax on JP worlds. We're the visitors there and it's our responsibility to abide by their standards, not the other way around. The "You don't pay my sub" attitude will get you blacklisted faster than you can blink.

After going back to try a couple big name Western MMOs since starting XIV, it's abundantly clear that the behaviors and attitudes I went to Elemental to avoid are only worse and more prevalent than they were in 2014. I do not, under any circumstances, want JP DCs open to the world. It took us long time and a lot of effort to get the EN and JP populations integrated to the point we're at. We don't need a flood of people who don't know how to behave DC-hopping to Japan and creating problems.

Linking NA/EU/OCE DCs for travel is a fantastic idea for a host of reasons and I support it 100%, just keep the JP DCs on their own.