Ragnarok: Only EU?

[Jinko]

I'm only really interested in the number of UK players moving to Ragnarok. It's just not viable joining a French, German or Spanish LS because they will expect you to understand their language. They are not going to speak using the auto translate for the few people who can't understand French or whatever, it's just not viable. If this kind of thing was the norm then I'd have joined a Japanese LS on launch day because their play time was more suited to me than US.

I've partied with French and Japanese players before and while it works in an EXP environment I just can't see such a barrier working in an end-game environment. There isn't enough time in a difficult fight to construct auto translate statements and while some may be able understand English they may not be confident speaking it over vent.

Have you considered starting your own LS when you move there, I'd be willing to join if I do move over.

Fact of the matter is there are large pockets of GMT (myself included) and EU players on several servers who want nothing to do with this. Not because so much of people won't be speaking English, but people like the eclectic nature of FF games. They want to play with people from all over the world and stamping 10 as an EU server dumbs that down.

I don't really think thats the big deal, FFXIV and FFXI players tend to make this out to be a sales point of these games and it really isn't, the majority only play with JP players a very small percentage of the time. (and almost never end game unless they know the language)

There isn't a great difference playing with someone from the UK or US really, nor that of an english speaking EU person.

I think the biggest reason people won't join the EU server is because they have grown accustomed to their enviroment and friends, and we all know how much people dislike change, add that to the uncertainty of the servers population and its obvious why people don't want to transfer there.

If thats what you want then it should not have been coined as "the EU server". Giving it that moniker automatically gives it the divide that many people don't want. There should have been several EU friendly servers - suggested - not branded.

Last I checked it's "Recommended EU server" its not "EU only", Yoshida has already said many times that it isn't EU only and that is open to everyone, I feel as if you are purposefully trying to dissuade people based on your bias.