Data Centers? (Yes or No Poll)

[Laraul]

These forums are hosted in Japan, and they feel pretty "lag free" to me. But I guess it's all a matter of perception.

People always think "JP Only" means "Japanese Person Only." Naw they mean the language. They could care less where you are from. They just wanna know that you can follow instructions. That helps if you can read the stuff. If you can't well just keep your mouth shut and improvise cuz they won't know.

It's spelled "ONLY" not "ONRY." Just how dumb do you want English players to look? Spell it the right way cuz otherwise you are just another a**hole.

[Alhanelem]

These forums are hosted in Japan, and they feel pretty "lag free" to me. But I guess it's all a matter of perception.

Lol? Forums are irrelevant when it comes to lag- you only interact with them when you want to load a page- your ping will only impact the time it takes before the page begins to load. Beyond that it's not going to load any faster or slower than any other web page.

In a video game, you're constantly sending commands to a server and thus are constantly being affected by this delay. It's still a minor thing, but it matters more when it's constantly coming into play than when you're on something static like a web page.

People always think "JP Only" means "Japanese Person Only."

Actually, I don't think anybody thinks this. Where did you get this idea? That being said, Japanese isn't very widely spoken outside of Japan, so there isn't a whole lot of difference.

[Jynx]

Actually, I don't think anybody thinks this. Where did you get this idea?

I imagine they got this idea because half the people in this thread act like JP only is just means to call a entire group of people Xenophobic.

Then again I still personally think the JP only or (Insirt language only) is a little played out and the small group of people who act this way are just rude in the first place. Then again everyone will pretend it's only Japanese players who tell people who don't speak their language to get out.

[Jaimie]

I seem to run into a lot of rude people in game. I'll be out exploring, see someone fishing or killing a mob, and say "Hi".

The response I tend to get is nothing or

a bunch of squares

Maybe I'm just lucky at find all the Chinese BoTs.

/s Eeek BOTs!
/panic motion

P.S. Hey Balmung Vets next time you see me shout "hello" in uldah you better be nice. Or I'm coming back here to tell everyone how rude you all are.

[Soukyuu]

Then again everyone will pretend it's only Japanese players who tell people who don't speak their language to get out.

Especially when people say "I want to only play with people I can communicate with" aka "english only". Curious how no one calls those xenophobic...

[Jaimie]

Especially when people say "I want to only play with people I can communicate with" aka "english only". Curious how no one calls those xenophobic...

I PREFER to play with english only players for a number of reasons.

1 the auto translate dictionary is nice, but not perfect
2 when I ask a question in party, I'd like responses from everyone. Many times I've been in parties, and the non-english players tend to be very quiet. In an all english speaking party, they wouln'd wouldn't be able to use the excuss "I don't understand".
3 As a healer, I am sometimes "busy" trying to keep people alive, and I don't have time to type in a word press tab find the correct translation etc.
4 I don';t have to worry about offending anyone if I want to say something without using the auto translateor.

[Soukyuu]

I PREFER to play with english only players for a number of reasons.

1 the auto translate dictionary is nice, but not perfect
2 when I ask a question in party, I'd like responses from everyone. Many times I've been in parties, and the non-english players tend to be very quiet. In an all english speaking party, they wouln'd wouldn't be able to use the excuss "I don't understand".
3 As a healer, I am sometimes "busy" trying to keep people alive, and I don't have time to type in a word press tab find the correct translation etc.
4 I don';t have to worry about offending anyone if I want to say something without using the auto translateor.

I imagine Japanese players have the same reasons. And all of them are valid. My point was, when the Japanese players say that, they are labeled as xenophobic. When English players say that, everything is fine, which is hypocritical.

Sorry for deviating from the original topic.