JP Community of this game

[Theref]

So far I've read those threads about the immaturity level of this game, how the community behave, and all bad stuffs that could happen on MMO. I want to share a bit of my experience during playing on server Garuda (JP). I picked this server because it was the only one that opened, I was actually want to join Tiamat/Tonberry where my most indonesians are, as well as many english speaking players but those two server was full. I can say 95% of players here are japanese, I saw english players here too sporadically.

I by no mean have no intention to speak ill on our fellow english speaking players, be it NA/EU. I didn't say anything about Japanese being much better, JP > NA; JP > All; No. I posted this thread to share you my experience that I had during hours spent on this server (And that happen to be Japan server). That's it. Love and Peace to everyone

The /Shout Chat
Shout channel here looks very clean no matter which zone I am. Except on market where there's usually some shouts here and there about FC recruitments, and people offering materia services. And mor dhona where many party invite shouts. No one overspamming the channel, they just /shout whatever needs to be shouted. There are no gill sellers spamming your shout every single seconds (There was, but only one of them and never see another one again), gill sellers are very rare, I guess they won't make any profit here where most of people don't understand english
Same thing on local chat, people doesn't seems to talk very much here. The only active chat I have is my FC channel, well I guess that's where people hang out.

Bots
I'm alchemist, I gather my own Water and Lightning shard. During chopping trees I never see gatherer's bots, that can insta teleport to nodes, and even go underground. There's many other gatherers but I'm pretty sure they are real people since they respond to my /poke lol. Then again, I guess shards sellers won't make much profit here, where most of people don't understand english

People from DF and PUG
It much faster to play with J highlighted on DF instead of just E. Unsure maybe because of player composition. So In the end I usually only picked J on most of my DF runs.

I've run countless time running Castrum, Ifrit HM, Garuda HM, as well as Titan HM (But always fail lol). One thing that I strongly notice is

- Upon entering the dungeon there always someone post this on party chat (If not half of the party members, all of them) 「よろしくお願いします」 "Nice To Meet You!" like a ritual that must be done. Something that I never have on English speaking party. I never encountered single JP party that didn't post this magic words.
- When someone make a mistake, that person usually said "I'm sorry" and the rest, never see things like blaming each others, cussing, or harsh words. Heck, there was even a case where it's fully my fault (DPS, and I dead) but the healer sad sorry in my stead. The rest of the party usually respond with 「どんまい」 "Don't mind about it", the rudest response I ever see is, no response at all!
- Upon exiting the dungeon there always someone post this on party chat (If not half of the party members, all of them) 「お疲れ様でした」 "Thanks for good work" like a ritual that must be done, even though we fail the dungeon, wiped, timed out, etc, this words always posted. Something that I never have on English speaking party. I never encountered single JP party that didn't post this magic words.

These little small things really make me feel being welcomed.
Never see people complaining about people watching cutscenes, "Hey are you newbie?" *then leaves*, and all that stuffs I saw on thread here. Up until now I haven't see people selling Titan runs on Mor Dhona.

Emoticons
I have my keyboard set to type in Japanese, but up until now I still don't understand how they type those weird emoticons like this ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ (づ￣ ³￣)づ ヽ(#`Д´)ﾉ without using Copy-paste. Most of the chat overflows with these weird looking creatures, very hilarious. And this one that supposed to be a cat ヾ(⌒(_*'ω' *)_ one of my FC friend often use.

The People Are Generous
I have alchemist on my DoH. When I'm free, I /shout my materia attaching services. Never charged people money. And I usually shout something like this "Level 50 Alchemist here, offering services. You decide the price". My services never left unpaid, biggest gill I've received was 35k gills (where materia attaching here usually cost -+1-2k gills) for helping people with their relic weapon!

Overall people here are nice, I'm not sure what would be in the future, but I hope it stay this way. I was actually going to server transfer when it's available, but seems like I won't. I already hooked myself into a nice FC, and the community here seems healthy. That's it! I'm going to sub for next month!

TL;DR = I'm glad I choose this server, how about you?

[Hysterior]

Same.
On a JP server and will never move anywhere else.
I enjoy playing with Japanese although they tend not to chat much during dungeons.
It's fast and polite, say hello, say goodbye and we part ways without having talked much.
Also the fighting style is always very "structured". I have literally never seen a tank not marking nor a BLM/WHM not sleeping mobs, I think not once.
I found runs very smooth.

and yeah, I also put all languages in DF and 90% of my parties are JP parties.

[EdwinLi]

This is why the NA servers are always behind the JP servers in completing contents.

JP skilled and experienced players actual work with new and inexperienced player and make them into skilled and experienced player.

NA just say go train yourself with the other new and inexperienced players and come back after you've done "this" and "that" after 10 times.

[rocco1986]

Hmm, I'm on cactuar (na) and every time iv went into an instance, we've all said hello, and when the runs over say good job, or good run ect. Only had 1 bad person go blaming in a run. Other then that its, sorry or hey this is what you can do to avoid that. Said nicely. But guess iv just got lucky in my countless dungeons.

[Ruminate]

This is why the NA servers are always behind the JP servers in completing contents.

JP skilled and experienced players actual work with new and inexperienced player and make them into skilled and experienced player.

NA just say go train yourself with the other new and inexperienced players and come back after you've done "this" and "that" after 10 times.

You're part of the reason why the NA community is so toxic.

Order of the Blue Gartr is the current top guild, as said by Yoshi-P. They're english speaking players on an NA server.

[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!

[EdwinLi]

You're part of the reason why the NA community is so toxic.

Order of the Blue Gartr is the current top guild, as said by Yoshi-P. They're english speaking players on an NA server.

How am I making NA community toxic?

I don't go around bashing every single person I see new or inexperiend and boasting about my gears and achievements.

and what is the point in advertising a Guild for this game with this comment?

Is it wrong to wish for more people to act a bit more polite like the people in the JP community mentioned in this post?

Being more polite and less screaming, raging and blaming others for mistakes they make or mistake a person made themselve may help improve the community

[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.

[Ruminate]

How am I making NA community toxic?

I don't go around bashing every single person I see new or inexperiend and boasting about my gears and achievements.

and what is the point in advertising a Guild for this game with this comment?

Is it wrong to wish for more people to act a bit more like the people in the JP community mentioned in this post?

Being more polite and less screaming, raging and blaming others for mistakes they make or mistake a person made themselve may help improve the community

You said, "This is why the NA servers are always behind the JP servers in completing contents."

I listed an english-speaking guild on an NA server that is ahead of everyone in completing contents.

Your entire post wreaks of passive-aggressiveness. You can be polite all you want, but you're still toxic.

[Juz]

Yeah act like JP ONRY! How sick i am of hearing that the JP community are some sort of saint or uber being. And yet they accomplished nothing.

This is the kind of jealousy that makes NA servers the way they are. I don't think JP players are better, they are about the same on average, their culture however is vastly superior and anyone with a clue knows even if you haven't played their that their servers would mostly likely have better communities. Just like Korean servers of games usually have much better players than NA servers because in their culture you have to take gaming very seriously if you are a gamer.