Any chance of get LATAM Server?

[Frozan]

Hi, we have EU, US and JP Servers. But i know that the latam community is very big, and is splited between lots of server Mainly Hyperion and Cactuar, but there lots on other servers.

There is any chance that we get a LATAM server?

Thanks in advance.

[Luthia]

Why not just say Latin America? I know a lot of people wont know what your little acronym means. I know I have never heard it before, and Im hispanic. As to your question, there are several LS within hyperion alone for Spanish speakers, I really dont see a need to separate servers based on language alone.

[Araye]

Even if you got what you wished for, it would just be located in JP or Canada.

[ashikenshin]

But I get what he is saying. It would be nice to have a server where the majority speaks spanish. Shouts in spanish wouldn't be answered with: get back to mexico! or something like that.

[Araye]

But I get what he is saying. It would be nice to have a server where the majority speaks spanish. Shouts in spanish wouldn't be answered with: get back to mexico! or something like that.

I have seen MANY different, extremely rude behaviors in this game. Something like that I have never seen. Not saying it has never happened, but things like that are completely unacceptable. I'd want a Spanish server too if that happened to me. But where does SE stop? LGBTXYZ will be wanting their own server next.

[LloydShade]

Just to make matter clear, it is not EU, US and JP.

It is North America & Europe (NA/EU) on a single data centre and Japan (JP) on the other data centre. They are meant to be for players near these regions as they pretty much cover each half of the world.

Since any server is international, the label only serve to bring in players with a similar time zone. You live in Spain, then EU servers have more chances to have a players playing during your usual gaming schedule. You live in Colombia, than NA servers would do the same.

As for the language, it is commonly accepted that for public messages in an international environment, English should be used. It will appear as impolite to, for instance, shout conversations in Spanish. You are better to shout in English to find Spanish speaking players, then group/linkshell/free company to then privately speak the language of your choice.

[Luthia]

But I get what he is saying. It would be nice to have a server where the majority speaks spanish. Shouts in spanish wouldn't be answered with: get back to mexico! or something like that.

Been playing this game a lot since release, havent seen any behavior like what you described at all.

[Alcyon_Densetsu]

As for the language, it is commonly accepted that for public messages in an international environment, English should be used. It will appear as impolite to, for instance, shout conversations in Spanish. You are better to shout in English to find Spanish speaking players, then group/linkshell/free company to then privately speak the language of your choice.

I agree with the rest of your post, but I don't agree with this bit.

If the servers are international, then all languages should be tolerated and actually welcomed. Granted, english is the most used because it's common practice in general (travel, business, etc.), but it should certainly not appear as "impolite" to speak in your own language on an international server. You will probably get less answers if you speak in french or german or whatever else, but that's it. No harm done.

There are two obvious reasons that justify my opinion:
- English isn't the official world language. It's just one of the most common.
- Not everyone speaks english. No one should feel ashamed by that, and everyone has the right to try to communicate in a social game.

This is one of these examples when the majority should not impose itself over the rest, and should be tolerant.
No country, no language has the right to claim ownership of, or precedence over international environments.

[ashikenshin]

Been playing this game a lot since release, havent seen any behavior like what you described at all.

haha it was an extreme example. Haven't had that happen to me but I never do shouts in spanish. :P

But it would be nice for some people to get to shout in spanish. It's not that they don't understand english (well, some don't) but sometimes it's hard to formulate coherent sentences. If the majority of the server speaks spanish then it's easier.

[LloydShade]

If the servers are international, then all languages should be tolerated and actually welcomed.

There is a difference between welcoming a language and imposing your language over the other players who possibly don't speak it.

As in my example, spamming the shout channel with a conversation is already, in my opinion, impolite to the other players that legitimately require to use said channel. Spamming shout channel in a language that a lot of players don't speak will be considered even more impolite. This will quite possibly lead to being ignored or receive negative comments. This is because by using the shout channel, you are in fact writing to everyone in the zone, therefore "talking" to everyone. Since not everyone will understand you, you will as a matter of fact either impose your language on someone that doesn't want it. This is were it gets impolite.

Since in North America, it's rather rare to find someone who can't speak English at all in a video game, it's general practice to use English as a common language in those servers. On the other hand, I'm not saying any other language should be banned. You should just be careful when you know EVERYONE will receive your message. This is called being polite.

For those who don't speak neither English, neither any of the officially supported languages (French, German or Japanese), well maybe they should wait until their language is supported as they wouldn't understand a thing in a text-based RPG. For those still learning English, well this is an opportunity to learn and practice. There is no better practice than when you really need to use the language and tools such as Google translate exists to ease learning.

On the other hand, when playing/talking among friends you are free to use any language you want. It would only be impolite in this situation to speak a language you know none of your friends speak.