Quote Originally Posted by Wuthow View Post
They've got a much friendlier community in JP; people are less inclined to getting carried and try to pull their own weight and they're generally more humble. I firmly believe that the reason they clear stuff on a much broader scale than both EU and NA is because of their social culture and not actual skill level in terms of gameplay. Over here, we've got the every-man-for-himself mentality (which actually pmuch didn't exist until modern age MMORPGs) and it's a real shame.
Eh, there have been instances on JP servers of players sniping the portals to BA, and one where an entire instance collectively refused to kill the outside NM to allow further progression inside BA (not Ovni but the other one that spawns where you need Feint L and Dispel L).

On Aether, when I've tried to do it there's been less players sniping portals and more instances just not being interested in going in. I did get in once last night, but only made it to the East/West boss rooms (and the other side failed to kill their add, causing us to wipe but it was still fun).