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[Madruk]

Or because they've never answered a question from the NA side directly.

It's a Japanese game, we get it. But that's probably the dumbest reasoning I've seen.

[Velhart]

Or because they've never answered a question from the NA side directly.

I noticed that trend. Very rarely do we get a response from the Reps here that is not originally from a response on the JP side.

Forum cycle is basically:

Read JP Rep responses through Google Translate > Read Reinhart's translation > Read NA Rep's translation of something I read twice already.

I understand the communication borders between NA and JP, but I think other regions should be responded to about their particular complaints and problems beyond localization. We recently had a near 1k post thread with almost 400 likes to the thread and a Rep didn't even acknowledge it existed, or did they? Who knows.

[InuraBera]

Or because they've never answered a question from the NA side directly.

It's a Japanese game, we get it. But that's probably the dumbest reasoning I've seen.

Very much like being an EU player in regards to things like World of Warcraft - the majority of news we get is reposts of information found on the US forums, and we barely ever get anything from the developers themselves (folk such as Ghostcrawler and what not).

I have actually been very impressed by the amount of stuff that is posted (despite the language barrier, which doesn't exist between the 'main' EU forum and the US forum for World of Warcraft) even if it takes some time basically due to the reps being based in the US.

*Edit* Looking through the 'Blue' posts on MMO-Champion, and within the first four pages, minus a couple of topics being posted in by the community team in regards to "You are oldschool if you remember..." every single post is a news repost or a blog repost on the EU side. The information posted by Ghostcrawler doesn't even make it across the divide.

Apologies for the assumption that you are from the US, but this is a common topic on the EU WoW forums - or basically any gaming forum in which you are technically the secondary market.