to those japanese speakers...

[AnimaAnimus]

The English forums are blowing up...again. But let's face it, the devs seem to listen more to the Japanese playerbase (a language thing I believe),

so how do the Japanese players feel not only about the relic, but about the game and its content and direction in general since 3.0?

[Vejjiegirl]

Here is what a quick Google Translate of the General Discussion got me

[Tayolynn]

So by the looks of it, Japanese players are all hunky-dory over the anima weapons and they love glamouring just as much as I do...

There should be a new sitcom in Japan, "It's Always Sunny in (JP) Eorzea." Also I further assume that FFXIV dev team is definitely ignoring the NA forums and only listen to the JP players.

[Zumi]

If you look in game most people are fine with relics like myself its the vocal minority that does a lot of nay-saying and doom and gloom posts. There really isn't a problem with relics. I fully expected a grind because it was what they have done previously.

[AzraelX]

its not even about the grind that pisses me off........its just the lack of creativity-- at least with 1st relic - we got 2 NEW trials!. Hidi brought us NEW TRAILS - New side story - no new trials.

No new instances at all in 3.15

This needs to addressed and remedied..............b/c many ppl including myself are losing faith in SE. 42% of the player base is in Na, 40% in JPN, 18% in EU. Guess what? NA matters a whole lot and they need to address these concerns............cuz the forms and reddit are exploding right now.

[Zumi]

its not even about the grind that pisses me off........its just the lack of creativity-- at least with 1st relic - we got 2 NEW trials!. Hidi brought us NEW TRAILS - New side story - no new trials.

No new instances at all in 3.15

This needs to addressed and remedied..............b/c many ppl including myself are losing faith in SE. 42% of the player base is in Na, 40% in JPN, 18% in EU. Guess what? NA matters a whole lot and they need to address these concerns............cuz the forms and reddit are exploding right now.

This is a hundredth patch its not a tenth patch. Technically the relics should of been released with 3.1 but were delayed. Hundredth patches are minor changs and bug fixes and content that got delayed because they didn't finish it for the main patch. Story and trails almost never come in the hundredth patches.

The point is this isn't a major patch its a very minor one that was stuff that was suppose to be in 3.1

Also there is really no way you can say those statistics are true because you did not survey everyone playing the game.

[Zazamoda]

Not a single Relic mention, good or bad, in that screenshot. They seem to care about emotes and glamours more than anything

[Aethaeryn]

Taking a screenshot of part of one page of one sub-forum is hardly enough to say they are "hunky-dory over the anima weapons". Yesterday there were plenty of posts with JP players frustrated over the same stuff people are frustrated about here. The main problem on English GD is 200 people starting new threads to say the same thing rather than continuing the discussion on existing threads.

[mp-please]

Here is what a quick Google Translate of the General Discussion got me

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/546
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/540

It's under item/quest discussion

[ohmRICE]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/546
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/540

It's under item/quest discussion

To be more specific it looks like this thread is where all the discussion is going on:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/275393

It seems to echo a lot of opinions shared by non-JP players (both positive and negative), but the thread is pretty small. I'm guessing Twitter and LINE are more popular than the OF is on the JP side of things.