Quote Originally Posted by tinythinker View Post
Curious though why Japanese players don't need help getting Rival Wings together...
Quote Originally Posted by hynaku View Post
It's funny they do what the japan player base wants and not north america player base which is bigger than the japan player base.
The Japanese player base is simply far more active in PvP than NA/EU, if you want to get a quick idea of just how much so, compare the top 100 for Feast for each region. They're far more competitive and active, and as such they don't have the same issues we have. No idea of the actual numbers of course, but I'd say the PvP playerbase in Japan is bigger than NA and certainly bigger than EU, probably even NA/EU combined, just based off Rival Wings (hint: they never needed a specialist discord to get that popping). Throw in a lack of a language barrier, which has always resulted in JP seemingly getting preferential treatment from SE, even as far back as XI, and yeah... That's not to say they completely ignore NA/EU, with PvE they certainly do listen, it just maybe takes a bit longer, but with PvP? I can't think of anything remotely substantial, granted 24 being gutted might be souring my perception somewhat.

But yeah, JP is far more active, so most of our issues don't apply. Queue times? Not an issue. Bad players? A bigger, more active playerbase dilutes them out. Culturally I believe they're also more likely to look down on such behavior, so they've got that going for them too. Over here? Not sure anybody really cares... About bad players, queue times, piss poor latency in PvP instances, PvP actions in general, any of it... One or two posts every now and then, that'll get a tiny bit of traction, but no one really cares... Someone posts low tier bait about emote abuse in Frontlines though? Oh boy hold on to your pants, cos that sh*ts clearly more important than the communities fairly unanimous disdain towards most of the 5.1x changes... Honestly I look at that and I'm not really surprised that SE ignores this section... Were I in their shoes, I'd ban emotes from PvP just to spite the idiots who signal boost a thread like that...