Would It Be Unethical For NA/EU Players To Transfer On Mass To Low Pop JP Servers?

[PredatoryCatgirl]

They will never allow that.
The JP playerbase would be furious over it. I met players who are GLAD Oceania players will supposedly leave "their" servers.
And they priorititize what that portion of the fanbase prefers.
Always have been. Since 1.0.

Yeah but imagine the PR nightmare shutting it down would be. It would open up accusations of racism. It would give them bad press on almost as bad a level as Blizzard.

[Rokke]

Theres nothing stopping anyone really from moving there. I would warn that outside Tonberry you'll likely be in an extreme minority when it comes to spoken language/strats tho.

[ReynTime]

Yeah but imagine the PR nightmare shutting it down would be. It would open up accusations of racism. It would give them bad press on almost as bad a level as Blizzard.

PR nightmare? They don't have to address this and they won't.
The fact most Japanese players aren't comfortable with people who don't speak Japanese/have higher ping is well known by players around the globe anyway.

I play on both NA and JP DCs and got sick of trying to queue into Fairy prime time, so played entirety of EW on Typhon with max 22 in queue, if there even was one. Honestly can't tell difference in latency between NA and JP, but then again I play PLD, but also had no issue with any of the trials. If you can do it, I'd suggest it (caveat is I'm Japanese so the language thing isn't a big deal - bonus also is no wipes at all on any trials hehe).

If you just wanna see the MSQ and are rolling in money could even just boost a job and story skip right to EW.

Mogstation would appreciate people forking 50+ usd out of desperation to do the EW MSQ in an alt during this.

[Saier]

Yeah but imagine the PR nightmare shutting it down would be. It would open up accusations of racism. It would give them bad press on almost as bad a level as Blizzard.

This is a joke right? People were sexually assaulted and one woman ended her own life. Don't start turning blizzard into the nazis of the gaming world, please - not everyone is as bad as them because people are inconvenienced.

[VelKallor]

The JP playerbase would be furious over it. I met players who are GLAD Oceania players will supposedly leave "their" servers.

Thats kind of..mean, when you think about it. We've done well and have tried to get along with everyone.

[Clicked]

As long as you can handle the ping and the lack of English speakers, go for it.

[Rolder50]

The problem therein would be ping. Having a more or less guaranteed 100-200 MS of lag would be awfully annoying.

[Shibi]

Literally the title. Since they have so many standard and lower pop servers. That way we can actually play the game without a hours long queue.

It's a good idea. It's also something I did recently, as the queues are in the low teens all the time, NA night time being low teens.

The problem therein would be ping. Having a more or less guaranteed 100-200 MS of lag would be awfully annoying.

I play with more latency than that into NA every normal day. It's not really an issue outside a few badly timed telegraphs, but those can be learnt.

[Caurcas]

Even with poor ping, one could atleast play instead of sitting in queue simulator 2021.

[Conando]

If you don’t mind having 200ms of delay, at minimum, sure.