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

[strawberrycake]

I'm just curious because I can't read or write Japanese and don't really trust Google translate to do a good job translating what I see on the JP forums.

NA forums are of course predictable. Everything is terrible, everything is horrible, the game is dying, etc. Every now and then we'll get actual constructive criticism. It's like that on every American forum in every MMO out there. So this forum is no different. (i.e. it's just as crappy.)

But I am genuinely curious what the Japanese players think. There might be cultural issues at work here. Full disclosure, I work at Sony but it's on the entertainment side and is in no way connected to Playstation. But I have Japanese co-workers and public criticism seems to be a no-no in Japanese culture.

So, it could be that Japanese players are just as unhappy as American players are with FFXIV but they do not voice their displeasure on the forums or social media.

But if anyone can read Japanese I would love to know what their mood seems to be.

PS. I know I'm asking this on the NA forum so any response I get will likely come with an agenda ("They think the game sucks!") but I'm hoping to find an honest take somewhere in the thread.

So, they regularly tell Yoshida to either self delete during streams, or complain about how out of touch he is. between Nico Nico and other Japanese forums they are just like us in many ways if not worse as they aren't afraid to bully people out of the game, witch hunt them and dox them to the extreme. A lot of the reception to EW is like us as well, 50/50. Doom Sayers and none Doomsayers, People are Ok with the status quo and people who aren't.

The Big Difference is that in JP they get more done due to the lack of individualism, so more of their community does more of the content, leading to many people feeling justified in their takes. So they're more so an extreme version of the NA forums, but on different sites and more blatant without much they have no chill.

[Shougun]

So, they regularly tell Yoshida to either self delete during streams, or complain about how out of touch he is. between Nico Nico and other Japanese forums they are just like us in many ways if not worse as they aren't afraid to bully people out of the game, witch hunt them and dox them to the extreme. A lot of the reception to EW is like us as well, 50/50. Doom Sayers and none Doomsayers, People are Ok with the status quo and people who aren't.

The Big Difference is that in JP they get more done due to the lack of individualism, so more of their community does more of the content, leading to many people feeling justified in their takes. So they're more so an extreme version of the NA forums, but on different sites and more blatant without much they have no chill.

First time I read a Japanese anon board for FFXIV feedback when someone asked a similar question. Hahaha. Made the NA English forum look like a lukewarm cup of tea.

A lot of stereotypes and lack of hands on knowledge shape some people's opinions of what Japan is, many are preferential in Japans favor at least lol but it gives me the whole Nippon Steel #1 vibe on the topic of Katanas. Relatively narrow and romanticized view of things that lacks a broader experience, although that is generally my sense of whenever I hear western (typically American) comments on outside the walls they know.