JP Community of this game

[Radunas]

This is great to see, as I had a very hard time connecting with DF, only E selected as language for the 1st forced instance (can't recall the name right now but it is just outside of the pirate town). I waited 45 minutes, doing Levequests and other side quests to kill my time, and literally not one person connected. I run DPS so I know it is a high pop class, but i shouldn't be forced to instance on a main storyline quest if there is no one playing. I will try and select "J" tonight attempting that DF again, hoping for your amazing results!

[Norack]

It's just a different culture, it's just cause over in Japan its rude to be rude.

In NA and EU its rude to not be rude.

So in both people are obeying there cultural stereotypes. JP is nice and polite, while NA/EU is rude and obnoxious XD.

[KhalidTheGreat]

I play on an EU server and always use DF to go into dungeons.

In my experience the community is very welcoming and helpful. Players greet each other at the beginning of the raid, they say sorry if they make a mistake and they try to give tips especially to first timers.

I only remember maybe one or two times that I had a bad or rude party, the rest are all funny, helpful, polite groups.

[Alyko]

Honestly I'm amazed that OP wasn't immediately booted from DF parties for being a gaijin. OP, are you being a fake JP? Do you speak any English in these parties, or do they know you're a gaijin?

[Theref]

Honestly I'm amazed that OP wasn't immediately booted from DF parties for being a gaijin. OP, are you being a fake JP? Do you speak any English in these parties, or do they know you're a gaijin?

Nope. They should know if I'm gaijin if they look at the social menu. And I speak japanese in the party.

[Eylev]

Not to be racist or so whatever.. But back in my FFXI times, i always partied with jp players as all the time they will remember to bring their own sneak/invis pots and willing to wait patiently while i trying to form party, they are also know when to release SC during battles.. As for NA players.. I wont say much but it is the opposite side of what i mention just now..

For FFXIV 1.0 & ARR, more or less is the same but there is no much difference to get whatever players since this is more "Casual" than FFXI..


PS: Im pretty sure those who have played FFXI for long time like me (8yrs) will understand how jp players play.. This actually influence alot in this ffxiv:arr..

[Fuddy]

Honestly I'm amazed that OP wasn't immediately booted from DF parties for being a gaijin. OP, are you being a fake JP? Do you speak any English in these parties, or do they know you're a gaijin?

I play with Japanese people all the time and until recently I was typing in Romanji+Autotranslate (Alphabetic version of Japanese) and the Japanese never said a word about me being a Gaijin though it was plainly obvious. My Japanese is good enough I can pretty much understand anything they say. They were always very helpful and when we got a tank that had no idea how to tank (For some reason I run into a LOT of JP players who don't know how to tank, like not even using flash once bad). However there are also JP players that other than the set "Yoroshiku" at the beginning and "Otsukaresama" at the end DO NOT TALK AT ALL even when you try to talk to them (Maybe PS3+No Keyboard?). So it's not all roses.

[Eylev]

I play with Japanese people all the time and until recently I was typing in Romanji+Autotranslate (Alphabetic version of Japanese) and the Japanese never said a word about me being a Gaijin though it was plainly obvious. They were always very helpful and when we got a tank that had no idea how to tank (For some reason I run into a LOT of JP players who don't know how to tank, like not even using flash once bad). However there are also JP players that other than the set "Yoroshiku" at the beginning and "Otsukaresama" at the end DO NOT TALK AT ALL even when you try to talk to them (Maybe PS3+No Keyboard?). So it's not all roses.

Romanji+Autotranslate? How you do that? Can teach me?

[Theref]

I play with Japanese people all the time and until recently I was typing in Romanji+Autotranslate (Alphabetic version of Japanese) and the Japanese never said a word about me being a Gaijin though it was plainly obvious. They were always very helpful and when we got a tank that had no idea how to tank (For some reason I run into a LOT of JP players who don't know how to tank, like not even using flash once bad). However there are also JP players that other than the set "Yoroshiku" at the beginning and "Otsukaresama" at the end DO NOT TALK AT ALL even when you try to talk to them (Maybe PS3+No Keyboard?). So it's not all roses.

True, but better than seeing people bashing each other lol.

Then again, there's many FC members here that doesn't talk at all because they are on PS3 and dont have keyboard

They are equally as bad, they are just more secretive about it. NA just wears its thoughts on its sleeves, JP will hide it behind a mask. If you have ever done business in Japan you'll know what I am talking about.

Yeah. Honne and Tatemae?

[Orsnoire]

Honestly I'm amazed that OP wasn't immediately booted from DF parties for being a gaijin. OP, are you being a fake JP? Do you speak any English in these parties, or do they know you're a gaijin?

I've played almost exclusively since FF XIV launched (1.0 mind you) on JP servers. In 2.0, I've gone into dungeons only posting the OCCASIONAL statement in auto-translate. And not once have I been booted or had a JP player leave due to me being "gaijin"

(BTW, you shouldn't be using that term. It's extremely offensive for those who actually understand what it means and its origin.)