This kind of thing has to stop...

[HiirNoivl]

sorry cant see the image from work, what content was it? for normal everyday content I would agree with you, for stuff like Garuda though a language barrier can really hurt your chances at success.

Natalan SB party r45-50

[Krausus]

Natalan SB party r45-50

uhhhg yeah that blows

[Shura]

I find it funny how people are calling ALL Japanese players racist because some of them prefer to play with people who speak Japanese but don't seem to realize that they themselves are being racist in the process. JP in "JP Only" usually refers to language and not race so its not racist, that being said there are racist players in the game but its not limited to jp players. No one is required to play with people they don't want to, everyone has the right to choose who they play with. I have been in JP groups where the players are extremely nice and have no problem with NA long as they know what they are doing, and at the same time i have come across players who have a issue with me because im NA even though i can speak Japanese just fine. Those that have an issue are 1/100 and that's fine, if u travel as much as me, u know racism exits in every part of the world.

Its not just the JP community that are picky with who they invite though, i have been in many NA groups that won't invite FR players even if they speak perfect English. I asked once why he doesn't want to invite that person, and was told because all FR are bad players and he doesn't want to wipe. There was a NA group that kicked me because of a LS i have a pearl to or one who kicked me because i waved to a friend who the PT leader had an issue with. I find these reasons a lot more petty then wanting to communicate with the party.

Just the other day joined to help with BRD AF fight, only 1 person needed the fight and just as it filled up 2 other people who needed the fight asked to join and some of us offered to drop, but the leader just ported to DH and said he doesn't want to invite them. The leader in this pt thought about his own convenience, he had 8/8 so he didn't care if others needed the quest done or not but if a JP player thinks about his own convenience then suddenly that's a big issue.

Do you honestly believe that if servers were region locked, everyone on your server is gonna suddenly want to play with everyone else? I mean even now i'm in PTs where they won't invite someone else even if they speak the same language. My endgame shell would rather waste an entire day doing nothing rather then invite a pug to fill a 7/8 pt, even if the pug player is skilled. If u played different MMOs u should know this, PT shouts will just have different criteria, and other petty reasons why they won't take you even if you can enter the fight.

I personally hope the servers don't get region locked, i have friends from all over the world and it would be a shame to not be able to play with them because of petty people.

[normalforce]

...JP in "JP Only" usually refers to language...

This is more of an observation more than anything else, but it's rather silly to follow a long sentence written in Japanese with only two English words. As a reasonably intelligent human being, if you're shouting in all Japanese, I get you want JP ONLY. It's the equivalent of me shouting in Ul'dah but tacking the equivalent to "English Only" in Japanese at the end.

[Orophin]

What I hate is when I get purely auto-translated party invites randomly when I'm out on my WHM, they contain what must be half of the auto-translate words in the entire dictionary sometimes.. it makes me nervous and sometimes I ignore them outright because I'm afraid the person doesn't speak any English.

A lot of times it's actually English speaking people that use the full auto-translated phrases, probably because they're unsure whether they're messaging someone that speaks English or not. I think I've only ever once gotten an auto-translated message from a Japanese person inviting me to a party.

This is more of an observation more than anything else, but it's rather silly to follow a long sentence written in Japanese with only two English words. As a reasonably intelligent human being, if you're shouting in all Japanese, I get you want JP ONLY. It's the equivalent of me shouting in Ul'dah but tacking the equivalent to "English Only" in Japanese at the end.

Some people are rather persistent and will try anything they can to get into a group if it's something they need. They're just trying to make it clear that they don't want anyone in their party that can't understand Japanese.

[HiirNoivl]

This is more of an observation more than anything else, but it's rather silly to follow a long sentence written in Japanese with only two English words. As a reasonably intelligent human being, if you're shouting in all Japanese, I get you want JP ONLY. It's the equivalent of me shouting in Ul'dah but tacking the equivalent to "English Only" in Japanese at the end.

But some lonely JP might need a party.

[Riv]

I've joined plenty of JP groups, even a couple that said JP only. Learn some basic JP or find a translator. As long as you know your stuff and try to communicate with them they don't mind. How would you feel if you were trying to explain tactics and loot system to someone who had no idea what you were saying?

Just think, when NA players can pick up group any content in the game you can start saying "NA Only!".

[Sagagemini]

It won't stop.
Get used to it.

[NasuAegis]

Just think, when NA players can pick up group any content in the game you can start saying "NA Only!".

lol is this how it is on every server? Most skilled NA players who have relics, and have the skills to beat any kind of content, are already in established LS's and they never join or start pickups. Joining a NA pickup for Anything besides AF, Ifrit, Mog, Skirmish, hamlet, XP PT, is like asking to use up all your G5.
On the other hand JP's in established ls's do shout pt's for everything, including ex ifrit, 17ta, raven hard.

[BotenAnna]

Maybe when NA players stop being terrible at this game, real people will want to group with us.