Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
ok i come from FFXI and never had problems with japanese people, but in FFXIV it seems more dificult to do anything with them. What is the reason to have international servers if I can only play with Europeans or Americans?

And i know some poeple will say: ohh one day i played with them and i have no problem.. ok i did it on FFXI too but 1 day is not enough to be polite. Seriously i feel discriminated by not being able to speak Japanese.

What to do? allow it and play a game with 2 "factions" where u join oriental or not oriental people?
Ahh this topic yet again, time for heaps of thinly veiled racism I guess...

I have no problem playing with Japanese people. Doing Darkhold sounds like it would be difficult with anyone you did not share a language with though, fluently. That is how it was in XI too though.

As for xp'ing I really don't see it as a barrier, it would have been nice if they had added the guildleves/quests into the auto-translate prior to the guildleve changes, and there is still more they should add to that system however this game is certainly a huge step up from XI in terms of playing with Japanese players.

For one you can actually copy text from the game, and post text into the game which makes communicating in Japanese characters so much easier than typing it through IME for those who aren't fluent. I can understand (I guess, I mean I can't really it just seems lazy to me) if you don't want to go through all that effort but you certainly can't blame Japanese players.

translators like http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/ are very useful for reading Japanese characters and there are many resources available online for game terms.

Yes some Japanese players are xenophobic, however I have certainly seen it much more from the American side. Especially when the American view of someone "wanting to have their own world" is not speaking your language. Playing with people who speak another language and only share a passing knowledge of your language (which is more than can be said of most Americans/Europeans and their knowledge of Japanese) is not the easiest thing in the world, but it is certainly doable with a little effort and most importantly respect for others on your part.