JP Only

[Jennestia]

hahahhaha man a lot of people wont be posting BS after this LMAO good find.

Too bad on Japanese clients he basically stated he didn't speak the Japanese Language and what isn't shown was if 'Vivi' was shouting for a party or he just simply asked them, because they may have abbreviated Party as 'PT' in English.

[DNO]

Too bad on Japanese clients he basically stated he didn't speak the Japanese Language and what isn't shown was if 'Vivi' was shouting for a party or he just simply asked them, because they may have abbreviated Party as 'PT' in English.

no i get it i get it.. its called excuses......

no amount of proof will change you guys mind i get it. Not a Thread started by a frustrated player, Not an actual Screen shot, not the fact that even YOU have seen it plenty of times, not the fact the SE is adding single speaking servers because of this fact. i get it your stubborn and no one will change your mind.

So let this thread die.

[Jennestia]

no i get it i get it.. its called excuses......

Indeed. A shout in Japanese with 'PT' thrown in would lead someone to ask them if they could join, that's logic. What you're likely arguing is that it's discrimination, when it's well known that that isn't the case, but after all.

I've seen JP Only plenty times, but since I also speak Japanese I know that it's not being racist, like it seems people believe it to be. As I said, I've seen French Only, Deutsch Only, Spanish Only etc, they're not being racist either. So stubbornness? I'm not the one being stubborn here.

The only reason they're thinking about splitting (not moving) the servers is because it's typical of MMOs, not because the game needs it, if that's the case FFXI would have never survived 1 year.

[Spellbinder]

no i get it i get it.. its called excuses......

no amount of proof will change you guys mind i get it. Not a Thread started by a frustrated player, Not an actual Screen shot, not the fact that even YOU have seen it plenty of times, not the fact the SE is adding single speaking servers because of this fact. i get it your stubborn and no one will change your mind.

So let this thread die.

The one who seems to be stubborn here is you. Yes here are Japanese players who prefer to play only with Japanese players, but the same goes for every language speaking community here. You seem to have an agenda to blow this phenomenon way out of proportion as if ALL Japanese do this when it is NOT the case.

[Chardrizard]

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[AmyRae]

What you're likely arguing is that it's discrimination, when it's well known that that isn't the case, but after all.

It is discrimination no matter what. "I will only party with people who speak Japanese," is discrimination in the same way, "I will only wear yellow," or "I don't think children should smoke," is discrimination. Discrimination in and of itself is not always a bad thing, and sometimes it has valid reasons for existing.

The issue is, "JP Only" is perceived, whether intentional or not, to be a "you're an outsider" slur against those who don't speak Japanese, which is I'm sure you would agree, a bad kind of discrimination. Racist? Perhaps not.

But it certainly comes off as prejudicial considering there is an auto-translation feature meant to make basic party communication possible. So even if you want to frame this as simply an issue of language, I think there's a case to be made that being told "JP Only" is still rude and hurtful given that people of any of the supported languages ought to be able to make a go of it no matter what.

[Spellbinder]

I'd personally chalk that up to the poor translation functions in FFXIV. I wish we had something akin to the system in PSO on the Dreamcast. It was easy to use and covered a lot.

[KumaAkuma]

DNO with proposing regional servers you're being worse than "JP-onry". Not only do you do refuse to play with JP yourself, but you're forcing everyone else to not play with people outside of their region either. Why can't you just play on an international server and just ignore everyone you do not want to play with and let other people decide for themselves?

[indira]

when im lazy to /sh a pt i just started crafting to kill time, or i go solo leves.

[darkstarpoet1]

You're required in American school system to take Spanish, so you pretty much understand exactly what I mean by other nations having to take English courses.

nice job. i was not required to take spanish and i went to an american school system. there is zero requirement that states you must learn spanish.