Quote Originally Posted by giantslayer View Post
Right now, hunts are basically Walmart Black Friday sales for gear. For any Japanese people who will (hopefully) read this and don't know what I mean, on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day in the US, Walmart will offer a limited amount of highly desired items (like HD TVs) at a very low price. This creates huge mobs of frenzied customers who compete for the items. Almost every year, the mobs will literally trample someone to death.
I love the implication in this post that there are only 2 nations of people playing this game and reading these forums and that's the US and Japan. Not that I don't know what black friday is, it's an analogy that most english speakers who have spent time on youtube can relate with. It's a pet peeve of mine since it's really the history of games that these two markets are the only ones people think of and the rest is an afterthought if a thought at all.