JP Only

[Soukyuu]

1. If we have to learn JP in the english version of a game its silly

English version of the game? It's not. If it was, then we'd had a dedicated US or/and EU server.

The client is multilanguage and actually the default language is Japanese.
And my point was, no one is forcing you to learn Japanese. Just don't play with people not speaking English, what is the problem with that?

[bird]

*slides in the thread in slow motion before lock to spread love, joy, and girl scout cookies!*

@Bird, I think there's some characters that may be different. I recall a Chinese friend of mine read 祭 not as "festival"? I never got a second opinion, but I've moving forward with that in mind.

Similar. It has more of a "memorial ceremony" connotation to it.

[zaviermhigo]

It seems like discrimination but its really not, most of the JP players see us as immature, and you could say thats stereotyping, but they probably didn't want you in there party because you don't speak the same language. I've been in parties in both XI and XIV with JPs, I've also done some end game content with them, many do know some english, but its not good to rely on that. The auto translate works fine but is lacking some things I'd like it to have. You can party with JPs just fine but it does add an extra layer of stress if you can't communicate fast, so I don't blame them for not wanting an added layer of stress is something as trivial as leveling. I speak english and french, and I still find it easier to party with the JPs than the Québécois and the French. I like having mixed servers, I'm not a xenophobic like many of the FF population including the JP who are notorious for being xenophobic. If you don't know what xenophobia is look it up, we play with 2 of the most xenophobic countries out there, France and Japan. Its cultural, and it barely bothers you, you were partying at anti-peak english speaking hours if you could only get a jp party anyway, its also circumstantial, get over it.

for every 9 jps that won't invite you to there party there's 1 jp that going to need a party later on and will hope to get that spot in the english party, so you extend them the invitation, relationships between races of people are fixed overnight, this is an mmo, people play mmos, people are just extensions of their culture. So you will come across cultural difference and maybe barriers while playing a game with multiple cultures, that's life. If politics were up to people who wanted separate servers and couldn't stand jp only, we'd never talk to each other on a international level, we'd never have bilateral or multilateral agreements, or we'd all be one big country of suck with no difference in culture between anybody. Its a game though not politics, way less important, but small scale if you can't stand being excluded from something due to language while playing a video game that relies on communication you should reevaluate your tolerance, its really not a big issue.

[Dhalmel]

OP while I understand your frustration majority of the time it's nothing personal, racism, or xenophobia. It's just hard to communicate on precise things with the auto translate function. Another problem is the fact is that the npcs and monster names are region specific and not in english globally like in XI. Heck for Marauder it's called Executioner in the jp client.

[bird]

I am curious. I must have missed this piece of information when it was announced. Could someone please direct me to the page where the developers announced that FFXIV will have region-specific servers?

Thanks!

[Jennestia]

I am curious. I must have missed this piece of information when it was announced. Could someone please direct me to the page where the developers announced that FFXIV will have region-specific servers?

Thanks!

They said nothing of sorts -- What was stated was they were thinking about splitting servers into International and Language Specific, not so much they would relocate servers to different regions.

[bird]

They said nothing of sorts -- What was stated was they were thinking about splitting servers into International and Language Specific, not so much they would relocate servers to different regions.

Oh! Hahaha! What a shocker. So basically, the whole argument of "well the developer agrees with me and therefore you're wrong" is partially, if not completely invalid, huh? Funny how that works. Thanks for verifying this Jenn.

[KumaAkuma]

lol the "NA {No Thanks}"-thing on Alexander had nothing to do with language. A lot of JP just hated the Americans, because of their selfish playstyles and being very rude when it came to communication. A lot of the JP had no problems with joining up with Europeans. Of course there was still the JP Onry group which did exclude anything non JP.

[Dhalmel]

[Dalmore]

Selbina server there is JP only everyday all day long. From Ifrit , exp parties and leves. so to the people who say it doesnt exist or its a bad day, either you hardly play at all or you dont log in when JP players are on.

OH and BTW you dont have to /tell the player to find out its JP only there kind enough to spam JP only in there un auto translated shouts. I find it funny everything they write is in japanese besides the JP only ><