JP Only!

[KuroMiso]

How did they even know you weren't japanese in real life if you spoke fluently japanese? Or was your client set to english?

My client is set to English.

[ZohnoReecho]

The problem is "JP Only" doesn't just mean Japanese language only, but in some cases Japanese people only. I tried being nice and asking a party finder group if I could join (in Japanese) for Ifrit Extreme, which I was well geared for and already experienced. I was turned down because I wasn't 日本人 despite being someone that lives in Japan and can communicate fine. A person's race outside of the game shouldn't matter, and has no place in the party finder. It's fine if they only want people that can speak Japanese. That's what the language selection is for, but phrases such as "WHITE ONLY" or "<INSERT ANY OTHER RACE> ONLY" wouldn't be tolerable, so why is this?

That's something I would have reported.

[Tupsi]

The problem is "JP Only" doesn't just mean Japanese language only?

The thing is - it actually does mean Japanese language only most of the time, especially after talking with many of them throughout my 11 years in FFXI and 3 years in FFXIV. There's always exceptions but you're making assumptions it's them being racist when it's not most of the time. Unless you yourself are fluent in Japanese they have absolutely no way to know if you're a Japanese person or not unless you used a translator. (And they can tell.) Your client language means nothing as you can change that to whatever - lots of Japanese players play on the English client as well as the Japanese one.

[Hanabira]

Its a communication thing clearly. You know how often you join an ex primal, or a coil group and you have to explain mechanics. Or make corrections to your strat based on the people in your group? For instance, depending on your party build in turn 4, you tackle soldiers and knights in different orders, or you do phase 5 and 6 in different orders. If you are in a 7/8 JP pt and you dont speak japanese, they have NO way to tell you what strat they are using. That makes you a liability since you are not on the same page, and there is no way to correct it.

Its like being in a DF group with someone staring at the battle tab unable to read party chat when you are trying to ask them to do something different. Its just frustrating, and leads to fail.

[Doo]

This is what happens when WoW fans meet up with Anime fans.

[Arkghyom]

It really doesn't bother because we have assholes and retards in every country and in every continent. Besides, nations are fiction.

[KoujiGeki]

not surprised when ARR came out and people would spam JP servers and yell racist stuff cause their servers worked fine.

[Warlyx]

FFXI example (cant be applied to FFXIV for obv reasons)

JP ONLY HA!, they are JP only until u change job to bard/red mage......then they go <please> <party> <do your need it?> <experience points> <you can have this.> blablabla

they are only JP until they need to fill the last spot and have been looking for a while

[gadenp]

This word is back with 2.1 party finder. It was a popular word in FFXI because FFXI have only mixed server ( JP/NA ) and seem like JP people don't want NA to join them.

The reason I post here because I'm playing from SEA and I have to play on JP data center to minimize latency ( Masamune ).So I have no choice but to join JP party from time to time.

People using this word in every party finder this week and it get my nerve. I don't know why they hate English speaker players this much.

Do you guys every fake JP and join these party? And how you do that to avoid them detect our inability to understand JP language?

Don't say so much. I got blasted by those NA server people when I made a post like this. As a ENG player in an Jap server, I understand your pains though.

Oh crap, me is too late. The blasting has gone on for 6 pages already. Save yourself and just let this thread die.

While those that play in Jap Servers will understand you, the rest will ...... (best left unsaid).

[Lafiele]

To be fair, eng groups usually = fail. They are also a lot less patient. Maybe if the eng community improved overall this opinion would change. Although there is probably some tweak of racism involved as well.