Yoshida-san - GLOBAL Servers and Balancing Tweaks Instead of Regional Servers

[Jynx]

Of course, OP's attempt to downplay the importance of gameplay irks me a bit.

Your attempt to downplay the importance of tearing appart the global community irks me a bit.

Almost all of the NA posts on the English forums are downright racist at times, it's not like many of you are shedding tears at the possibillity of a split in the community.

[Duelle]

Your attempt to downplay the importance of tearing apart the global community irks me a bit.

Your rose-colored goggles on this topic irk me even more, because we weren't exactly singing happy songs and holding hands with all Japanese players; we got along with some and ran into some "JP onry". I guess later we could have an irking contest to see which of us is most irked by the end of the day.

Almost all of the NA posts on the English forums are downright racist at times

Yawn.

it's not like many of you are shedding tears at the possibillity of a split in the community.

Depends on who you ask. I play this and played FFXI because they were online Final Fantasy games. I like the possibility of better storylines and I have always been fond of the Final Fantasy IP's job concepts.

On gameplay, yes, it is very important to me. Better gameplay means I can expect encounter mechanics to be more than just "stand there auto-attacking and WS when you hit 100 TP". Better gameplay means playing as that class/job can be a little more involved. International friends are nice, but their presence won't fix latency issues during boss fights or make abominations like cure-&-refresh-bitch Red Mage any less painful.

I understand some have friends in the EU and JP, and I'm sure that if you actually bothered to talk to them about this you can agree on where everyone will play once the nitty gritty on the server structure is revealed. Considering the forum communities managed to get themselves organized for this kind of thing (in case anyone forgot about that), I don't think linkshells and circles of friends doing something similar is that unrealistic or outlandish.

As I've said in the other thread about this, wouldn't be the first time someone chooses to play on a different region server to be with friends. We had two New Zealanders and an Australian in our WoW guild, aside from a bunch of EU people. Despite the latency difference, they chose to do so because they liked playing with us.

[Rokien]

Your rose-colored goggles on this topic irk me even more, because we weren't exactly singing happy songs and holding hands with all Japanese players; we got along with some and ran into some "JP onry". I guess later we could have an irking contest to see which of us is most irked by the end of the day.
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Huh funny, I've never had JP onry. Infact I got into parties that shouted "jp onry" in them. All you have to do is get YOUR stick out of you but, be nice, they will do the same. Jps have never had a problem with the Rokien.

oh that includes FFXI as well.

[Elexia]

Your attempt to downplay the importance of tearing appart the global community irks me a bit.

Notice how he'll disagree with everything and everyone except for people who share his view?