JP Only!

[Zfz]

I don't know why they hate English speaker players this much.

I sort of know.

Let's first agree on something: we each have the right to choose who to play with.

Now let's look at what the EN players are doing in the JP datacenter: JEDF and to hell with JP people.

Is it WRONG to say, we want to match up with English speaking people in the DF? Similarly, is it wrong for them to say they want to match up with Japanese speaking people?

There's really no solution to this. It's what comes with playing in a, well, for lack of a better way to put it, a "foreign" environment.

[Kerwin]

Back when I played on Masamune in 1.23 XIV, they had a party finder system similar to 2.0's and even back then they had thr comments in all caps "JP ONLY."

As annoying as it sounds and by the way that most english speakers interpret it, it's actually just thr Japanese language they are looking for only. Alt tab to google translate or look up common phrases and use them. So long as you are familiar with whatever they are doing and not messing up or making a fool outta yourself, most wont care if you join. Just dont use Auto-Translate since thats a dead give away you are baka gaijin. :P

This has always been the nature since even XI days, as stated above.

[SarcasmMisser]

Yeah I can vouch for the above, the way it is said they don't separate the nationality Japanese from the language, because I guess they assume no one else would speak it. But almost all of those groups would not care who you are if you can communicate in Japanese, that is all they're looking for.

[mindful]

Do it really matter if Japan only or anything? If like to get technical japanese players feel to new to this style of games and the entire rest of the world been playing it for 9+ years this style of mmos. So it a game that came from japan and they want to only play together, It should be cool they can learn that experience of this style of play and mmos together, FFXI was a different time and breed. The Rest of the world will just go on are merry way and enjoy the game.

[Tupsi]

This word is back with 2.1 party finder.

So? NA players are being much more rude in party finder comments from what I'm seeing. You can't realistically complain about something not rude as "JP only" and not complain about people who literally insult the playerbase in their party finder comments lol.

[Sammich]

I think there may also be an issue with latency as well as language. I know that players in Japan have a much easier time dodging with their 9ms pings than those of us in Australia with our 120ms ones. While I imagine it's mostly that they don't want to have to deal with the language barrier, it could also be that they're sick of watching SEA players eat aoe. Either way, it's their prerogative to ask for members to be "jp only".

I also don't think that selecting all the languages on duty finder is a problem. I ran a few instances today with only EN selected and I got grouped with JP players (or players speaking Japanese, anyway) which didn't bother me at all. As long as you don't need any explanations it shouldn't really matter what language you speak.

[Doo]

They probably tired of all the otakus that join jp servers and act all animeish!

[SpookyGhost]

It's likely just a communication issue. If it's something like EX Primals or Coil you're going to need to communicate with the rest of the party so everyone speaking the same language usually helps.

[flamds1]

They don't want our troll either.

[Kleptobrainiac]

/sigh...

Doesn't anyone speak gibberish anymore?