Does the dev ever visits the NA/EU servers

[ern815]

I know YoshiP does walk around in his server from time to time to interact with the players but do any of the developers ever visit other servers?

[CraftOs]

Doubt it. They are probably scared of receiving development requests, lol.

[Enla]

They probably do on their private accounts. Provided they aren't heartily sick of the game from working on it. I don't think I've heard of anyone but Yoshi-P advertising it though. Well. Except Yoko Taro now that he's collaborating. The man's been tweeting his adventures in Eorzea for awhile.

Edit:
Found his tweet about Qarn.
https://twitter.com/yokotaro/status/1116959929556803585

[Bellsong]

Yoshi-p doesn't speak English right? And I'm pretty sure most of the dev team don't either, so I can't see them playing anything NA side, at least not in the "I'm here, AMA" capacity that he does on the JP servers

[Alestorm]

Yoshi-p doesn't speak English right? And I'm pretty sure most of the dev team don't either, so I can't see them playing anything NA side, at least not in the "I'm here, AMA" capacity that he does on the JP servers

I've actually known people from Japan who'd prefer to avoid speaking English when possible simply because they're afraid of mispronouncing a word or causing offense by mistake with bad phrasing. It's almost comical when you explain that most Americans will offer to help out and can be pretty tough to offend. (most of the time anyways)

Japanese is super structured and has several layers of manners/politeness blended in. English on the other hand... total chaos in comparison and tone can change a lot.

[Kaethra]

I've actually known people from Japan who'd prefer to avoid speaking English when possible simply because they're afraid of mispronouncing a word or causing offense by mistake with bad phrasing. It's almost comical when you explain that most Americans will offer to help out and can be pretty tough to offend. (most of the time anyways)

Japanese is super structured and has several layers of manners/politeness blended in. English on the other hand... total chaos in comparison and tone can change a lot.

I've heard many won't speak it unless they absolutely need to unless they have mastered it enough to speak without much accent at all. Which is rather ironic considering in English there is probably more accents in it than there are other languages combined.

[Kuroka]

What i wonder, dont you need english for software stuff and coding...?

[Riardon]

What i wonder, dont you need english for software stuff and coding...?

You do and Yoshi and his team know enough to do their jobs but that doesn't mean they comfortable with speaking in English.
From what I saw Yoshi understands English quite well but he is not very good with talking.
Pretty sure they paid visits to the western data centers with their incognito accounts in the past.

[Catwho]

What i wonder, dont you need english for software stuff and coding...?

Actual programming uses roman letters, but code is pretty much its own language and you have to learn it from scratch even if English is your native language. Comments in code can be in any language.

For project management, business analysis, systems design - all the stuff that isn't the programming part - you can do that in any language.

[CaptainLagbeard]

What i wonder, dont you need english for software stuff and coding...?

Do Japanese developers code in english? It wouldn't probably be impossible to make the commands and such in another language... Namely in Japanese in this case.

The compiling process wouldn't much care what language the code is in as long as everything is defined...