My heart just fell totally...

[TomCarroll]

I think the one thing I'll be looking forward to with FFXIV is it's Japanese playerbase.

The real question would be, "Are they looking forward to playing with you?"

From what I understand, the majority of Japanese players hated the idea of international servers in XI. Square-Enix, played it off and gushed about how amazingly well the servers brought people together. One surefire way to help bring people together without a content-finder would just be to separate servers by time-zone, that way peak times become irrelevant and more people can enjoy content.

[Aenarion]

From what I understand, the majority of Japanese players hated the idea of international servers in XI.

I would love to see the data you used to come to this conclusion.

Otherwise from what I understand, you're just being a DB

[Zumi]

I would love to see the data you used to come to this conclusion.

Otherwise from what I understand, you're just being a DB

Read the JP amazon reviews about FFXI, there were tons of complains how they hated playing with foreigners. Some JP players felt deceived because they thought the servers would be JP only and they wouldn't have to deal with foreigners and that they would get their own servers. SE was cheap and didn't want to set up regional servers.

[Shougun]

Read the JP amazon reviews about FFXI, there were tons of complains how they hated playing with foreigners. Some JP players felt deceived because they thought the servers would be JP only and they wouldn't have to deal with foreigners and that they would get their own servers. SE was cheap and didn't want to set up regional servers.

Lol offtopic but I wanted to add they are just mad because they had a 1 year headstart but still got overun and outplayed XD

(Yes a lot of bad NA players too, but there where a lot of lol wtf no life + epic groups as well - took a little while after launch ofc we had to build our information sources that JPN already had).

[Niqote]

I would love to see the data you used to come to this conclusion.

Otherwise from what I understand, you're just being a DB

We are talking about the JP player base from 10 years ago right?

Nihonjinron, terrible translation technology and general human instinct (stay in your group for safety)... I can see it happening.

[Aenarion]

Read the JP amazon reviews about FFXI, there were tons of complains how they hated playing with foreigners. Some JP players felt deceived because they thought the servers would be JP only and they wouldn't have to deal with foreigners and that they would get their own servers. SE was cheap and didn't want to set up regional servers.

Yes, because amazon reviews section is such an unbiased and authoritative source to use in determining the mindset of the entire JP playerbase It's about as good of an idea as it is to use 4ch to judge the intelligence of the human race.

We are talking about the JP player base from 10 years ago right?

Nihonjinron, terrible translation technology and general culture... I can see it happening.

Of course there were those who were against global server on the JP side, just like there were those against it in the NA/EU side for various reasons, some more valid than others - neither side has a monopoly on a-holes.

[Valmonte]

...seems the horrible systems Blizzard call Cross Realm Dungeons and Cross Realm Zones, which a large number of people playing WOW detest with a passion, is coming to FFXIV:



This is a recipe for disaster, the long experience of the cross-realm Looking For Dungeon has amply shown it breeds excessive greed and ass-hattery, because players can be jerks and then return to their own realm with no repercussions with regard to their community reputations.

Cross Realm Zones has destroyed large parts of the gathering game, now the over-competition for resource nodes makes leveling gathering a nightmare.

Please Yoshi, I beg of you, DON'T inflict this community-killer on us.

its just for raids, as far as we know the worlds have not been instanced yet. way back in the day there was an Asshat Ninja's list all those that stole or were General Douchbags were placed on this list and quickly found themselves without party's. the same thing would work here even better because a single Character needs at least 2 classes leveled.

[Ricky]

Actually I have an addendum to my last comment, the one bad thing that Group Finder did for WoW was make the world a lot smaller, I hope that doesn't happen with XIV. In WoW you would just sit in the main city all day teleporting to your destinations.. I actually enjoy going places in a large MMO world, we'll see I guess

[Heavens]

Actually I have an addendum to my last comment, the one bad thing that Group Finder did for WoW was make the world a lot smaller, I hope that doesn't happen with XIV. In WoW you would just sit in the main city all day teleporting to your destinations.. I actually enjoy going places in a large MMO world, we'll see I guess

The idea of a group-finder should be that it is not used for all of your content, only things like dungeons, PVP and raids. Let the other content get people out in the world.

The beauty of it as well is you can use it from anywhere, while taking part in that other content. Double edged-sword which needs to be design balanced.

[Heavens]

The group-finder tool is one of my most anticipated features.

-Making groups in 1.0 was a waste of play time
-Spamming chat for more people is annoying and drowns the people around me in a wall of text
-Knocking on people's virtual chat door became a nuisance and hard to manage (who did I already contact...?)
-Old content was virtually impossible to find people for

Need I go on?