What is the read on this game from the Japanese playerbase?

[Cerbolt]

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There is no NA forum all the English speaking people are bundled together.

[Lium]

NA forums ?

I didn't include the EU forums because from what I've seen they are not nearly has vitriolic as the North American forums, which are mostly Americans complaining about everything under the sky.

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

I didn't include the EU forums

EU forums???

There is no NA forum all the English speaking people are bundled together.

It would be even more accurate to say all the people who don't speak German, French or Japanese are bundled together and made to speak English. These are pretty much global forums.

[KuroMaboroshi]

It would be even more accurate to say all the people who don't speak German, French or Japanese are bundled together and made to speak English. These are pretty much global forums.

Not to mention a decent amount of German and French speakers also speak English as a second language and just join in the discussion of the English forums, since the French and German ones move very slowly by comparison.

[strawberrycake]

Funnily enough, JP players make a stink out of third party tools, but in JP in a lot of online games, including XIV, they're willing to use third party tools to see what language your client is in to know if you;re a native or not. Then they bully you out of their region or blacklist you throughout the entire community to keep it pure. You can imagine how extreme their PoV of the game is if they're willing to go that far to find out peoples info to bully them.

Imagine how they treat the Devs when the feel they mucked an aspect of the game up.