So I can't play and tell with EU/NA/JP friends in ARR...

[Jynx]

I just want to poke stuff with my lance, not make a friend

This is obviously where we differ.

the Japanese player base is dead to me. In fact, for me, they are a nuisance because they fill my shout log with indecipherable spam.

What about the European community? What about the Austrailians? What about Poeple who live in other places of the world not in your timezone? Many people will be stuck either playing on a server with no people of the native language during primetime or being left to rot if they don't play during primetime.

[JackDaniels]

What about the European community? What about the Austrailians? What about Poeple who live in other places of the world not in your timezone? Many people will be stuck either playing on a server with no people of the native language during primetime or being left to rot if they don't play during primetime.

Well actually I normally play during European prime time. If I was locked into North American region, it wouldn't really make that much of a difference to me.

Also, every German person I've encountered can speak English as well as I can speak French (I'm Canadian). The only people I want segregated are the Japanese, due cultural and language barriers. I don't hate the Japanese, they just don't fit. It's clearly too much for SE to make a functional auto-translate so long as Japanese is a variable.

Yet you choose to play a Japanese MMORPG.

I don't play it because it's Japanese any more than I played TERA because it is Korean. TERA has it right though, people aren't crying because they can't play with their Japanese/Korean counterparts on their forums.