What about a JPN-NA thoughts corner?

[KitingGenbu]

Just to check, are these things that on which Beetle personally founded opinions shared with his own, or an objective compilation of the thoughts mentioned on the "I guess it's time" thread?

I just took them off the very first post that had his personal quote but didn't go through all that on this thread. Tried to credit him though.

[FinaSel]

I suppose what many of us want to know is have reps/devs responded to the similar threads that the JP forums have created? If so, what have they said? Since they can speak directly to them without having to translate.

In general, the development team seems to respond much more to posts on the JP forums. But keep in mind, many threads active even now started 1 or 2 years ago and are long and have many ideas, so the development team sometimes responds to just 1 idea.

Let's see.
Some people asked for stone pavement and pools for houses. The dev team said they are considering it.

The dev team is working on developing a way to kick players who go AFK in PvP, because currently the message "player's can't be kicked during battle" message appears.

They are considering about lowering points required to win Fields of Glory and also increase HP of ice.

They are considering what to do about AST Benefic, if anything.

They are considering about using password feature for cross-server Party Finder recruiting. So people can recruit on SNS.

But like usual, the dev team usually says "Thank you for your suggestion. We'll pass it on to the dev team for considering". Like this.

To clarify, I envy that island mentality.

Yes, but some people don't like it because they feel they cannot speak their true feelings, because they mind offend / cause trouble for the other person.
So people are very agreeable on the surface, but under the surface they are not.

When I get a non-Japanese in a party, if the tank is doing bad, the member will clearly tell the tank he / she is doing bad.
But most Japanese won't say anything. Just deal with it and continue until the end of the ID. But I think many Japanese want to say something, but can't. For many Japanese, this is frustrating and envy the culture where people can freely speak their feelings.

When I lived in the U.S., many people said exactly how they feel. I think it's similar in the game too. Some people think it's a good thing to be able to do it. But others think it's not good because it makes other people uncomfortable.

I think it depends on personal preference.

To clarify: I don't know which is "better". They are just different ways of dealing with something.

[Thayos]

When I get a non-Japanese in a party, if the tank is doing bad, the member will clearly tell the tank he / she is doing bad.
But most Japanese won't say anything. Just deal with it and continue until the end of the ID. But I think many Japanese want to say something, but can't. For many Japanese, this is frustrating and envy the culture where people can freely speak their feelings.

That's pretty much my personality, unless I'm with friends. I'll offer helpful advice at times -- like if someone is just messing up on a mechanic -- but if it's clear that someone is just not a gifted player, then I don't see any point in making the person feel bad.

[Deceptistar]

Id like the JP side to see how much RMT spam we get, so that SE might do something other than ignore the NA side of this.
I moved to Levi about 3 months ago and my blist is ONLY filled with RMT spammers and its past 150+ blocks

[Alien_Gamer]

I try to brush up on my English skills, so I write in English forums.

For what its worth, your English skills are better than a lot of native speakers that I know.

[FinaSel]

Id like the JP side to see how much RMT spam we get, so that SE might do something other than ignore the NA side of this.
I moved to Levi about 3 months ago and my blist is ONLY filled with RMT spammers and its past 150+ blocks

None. On Carbuncle at least.

And never heard of any on other JPDC servers either.
Never heard of anyone even mentioned or talk about RMT once.
When I played WoW on U.S. server, there was so much RMT. It was hard to believe.

For what its worth, your English skills are better than a lot of native speakers that I know.

Thank you. I spent most of my childhood in an English-speaking country. But now I live in Japan, so I don't have much opportunity to speak with native speakers. This is one reason I come to English forums.

To keep you up to date on the JP community response to Deep Dungeon:
The General Discussion section has no new threads regarding Deep Dungeon. (Unlike 3 pages on NA forums.)
The Dungeons section has about 4 threads about Deep Dungeon.
One thread is about "Things you'd like to see added to Deep Dungeon". Things include "warp traps", "pitfalls", "rooms with different light levels", "Traps which lower your arm / armor rating (has 1 like)", "one giant room filled with monsters" and so on.
One thread is just "About Deep dungeon". Started on the 24th. Already 78 pages long.
Another thread is about being able to use "job skills" even though you go into deep dungeon as a "class". For example, joining as an "Archer" and can't use "Bard" skills.

There was another thread about EDF players queuing with Japanese Language for Deep Dungeon, even though they can't understand Japanese. Many people were complaining about it.
Because another thread already existed for that topic, an administrator closed it and directed people to continue in the original thread.
So the discussion is continuing there.
Even though I can speak both to a degree, I experienced this too. In my 3-person party, we get 1 E player who cannot speak Japanese. My 2 teammates cannot speak English. We queued as Japanese only, yet 4th person only speak English. (And he talked so much.) It's frustrating for my two team members. DD has little time to complete, so it's a waste to translate what they say.
Many J players in the thread have stronger things to say about the issue though.

Deep Dungeon "Palace of the Dead" was actually a suggestion made by a J player on J forums. You can see thread here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...A1%88%EF%BD%9E

[Melorie]

To keep you up to date on the JP community response to Deep Dungeon:
The General Discussion section has no new threads regarding Deep Dungeon. (Unlike 3 pages on NA forums.)
The Dungeons section has about 4 threads about Deep Dungeon.

That a very interesting particular difference between the two regions forums.

[Shurrikhan]

Deep Dungeon "Palace of the Dead" was actually a suggestion made by a J player on J forums. You can see thread here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...A1%88%EF%BD%9E

The original looks a fair bit more ambitious (goal-wise, not necessarily mechanically) than what we ended up with, even if its goals were rather open-ended (or not necessarily limited to the new content medium being suggested).

[SenorPatty]

I'm on a resurrection roll today but I promise this is the last one (for now, muwahahaha).

Actually the reason why I revived thia thread is because I was curious as to what is jpn's thoughts and feelings overall to the coming of Stormblood as well as what is currently trending over there.

[Stormfur]

I tried running it through Google translate. I got the impression they don't care so much about the 280 weapon but I don't think they like the mindless fate-spam either.