Server Divided by Language

[Rentahamster]

They could boost the cross-cultural interaction if they made open-world partying and grinding fun and rewarding again like back in the beginning. So many pick up parties would form back in the day.

The leve system is horrible at fostering international community play since there are so many obstacles in the way of just going out and killing stuff as a group.

[Galoot]

This would be a major downfall in my opinion. This is one of the reasons I play FF, and I was in an LS in FFXI where we had JP members. I like that aspect the most, we had JP runs and we had NA runs for different events, thus an event going on at everytime during the day. Also it's sweet to talk with people from all over and I'm not just saying JP, some French, German, and other countries too.

It seems to me there is a JP following though that only enjoys playing with JP...because there is this notion with NA players that we're ignorant. Which I can say was sometimes the case in FFXI, one bad apple etc... If this happens it will definately be deflating to most players on both sides.

That being said communication is key, and there is a definite need for more auto-translate which at times can be hilarious to use but works.

[Archadius]

It seems to me there is a JP following though that only enjoys playing with JP...because there is this notion with NA players that we're ignorant.

Everyone is ignorant. lol

[Azurus]

Everyone is ignorant. lol

Also in XI the JP were very elitist and rude a lot of the time, atleast to me. I dont know how many times they would rather sit and wait then take an NA tank. and this was just for grinding partys that could be communicated just fine through auto translate. I'm not surprised at all they would want segregated servers.

[Anty]

Please DO NOT divide servers by language. It keeps the world alive during all hours of the day. And the interaction with JP/EU players was awesome in FFXI and is one of the main reasons I play FFXIV.

yeah this is one great aspect of the international servers!

[Averix]

Everyone is ignorant. lol

Maybe. However, the translator made it hard to be overtly mean or nasty though, which is a nice change of pace.

[Archadius]

Also in XI the JP were very elitist and rude a lot of the time, atleast to me. I dont know how many times they would rather sit and wait then take an NA tank. and this was just for grinding partys that could be communicated just fine through auto translate. I'm not surprised at all they would want segregated servers.

No I literally mean everyone. Not "the JP players".

[Ruri]

I like playing with people from other countries and I enjoy playing with the japanese. I like how one server has people from all ends of the world, it would be boring if its all NA or english speaking imo.

[Reinheart]

(Please use the auto-translating function.)

Would like to see them upgrade the stupid auto-translating function... I still have hard time since FFXI why item names don't pop up in auto-translator once the item is in the inventory... have to wait or I remember had to equip/unequip or something like that to finally make it pop up in the auto-translator. Good thing I speak both but damn I hated translating almost 80% of the time between JP and NA players for dynamis and some other events lol, even got asked to translate between two linkshells I'm not even running or inside lol

Did they ever fix the <t> mob names in XIV not showing in players native language yet? I didn't test partying with NA players recently and been with JP guys only so shows up JP mob names on mine, but before I did <t> and on the NA client it showed up Japanese name which kind of sucked... I'm sure that one is a easy fix [mob_name] being assigned to your own language [mob_name] instead of just sending it text/variable...

[Xatsh]

I say a big no to this for several reason.

1) my linkshell has people in it from around 10 different countries. (this would kill my ls)
2) this would shut down FFXIV in the NA more or less. The economy would die, the game would be barren 6-8hrs a day. I mean look at Aion the worlds second largest mmo... and it is all but dead in the NA servers.... it would be worse with FFXIV.

Global servers is one of the biggest draws to FFXIV, removing that would be a horrible move for SE and probably a death blow to the game.