Quote Originally Posted by Mysha View Post
I want to bring to your attention the community divide that is present in most legacy servers, mainly split between English speaking players and Japanese speaking players, I want to know if this is as bad in other legacy servers as it is in mine

Below i organized my thoughts or responses to posters in this thread based on subject

(please note from here on i can only provide comments and photos [by request] from my own experience from masamune)

On Masamune i would hazard a estimate ratio of 30:70 En/Jp speaking players, and for some reason the japanese players have no love at all for any English players, while this wasnt such a bad thing before 2.2 its becoming increasingly worse as time/content comes out
Responding specifically to the highlighted point.

Likely due to players who came from XI who haven't forgotten the type of treatment that Japanese players received from NA players when the game was released for them. It got so bad to the point that it was common to hear shouts of 'JP ONLY' come out, consistently, because they simply did not want to deal with NA players. Sometimes due to language barrier, it's a real issue, auto-translate only helps so much. It also had to do with player attitude, particularly American (and yes I am one), the attitude towards other country players is really abhorrent. Not all players are this way, it's also not isolated to simply American, but can also involve European, or Australian as well. But I'm sure you understand what I'm getting at. They simply don't want to intermingle.