For an EN speaker playing in a JP world.
It's the best thing that's happened.
The awkwardness of having to poke and /tell people in broken auto-translated phrases is removed.
Some of us had to resort to mass player searching and /tell each and every EN client player - with no luck still.

I guess l will still have to wait for another week probably for the 2.1 hype to settle down before getting people to join my relic quest party >_<

Anyways, it's awesome.
Almost had half a party on day 1.
It was better than none.