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I think of processors like a condom. I'd rather have and not need than need and not have, especially with the price being modestly low. I upgrade piecemeal though, and I usually get the better part of a decade out of my processors.

That's definitely a valid view.

I tend to upgrade every 2 to 3 years, and on a fairly limited budget (the wife would prefer I didn't spend $1K+ each time). With the $100 saved by dropping from an i7 to an i5 I was able to get a much more powerful video card.

As I primarily use my PC for gaming, my bang for the buck is much greater this way. I do miss hyperthreading when encoding videos, but I usually do those overnight as a batch anyway.

Did you only have E checked for your language settings?

And duty finder servers are still located in their respective data centers. It isn't some magical journey that splits the difference.

Given that there is a large population of English speakers who live closer to the Japanese data centers than either the EU or NA data centers, it shouldn't be a surprise that you run into them even on the JP servers.

Take a look at the world map, see that big continent, and the landmass that vaguely resembles a semi-colon, those are Australia an New Zealand. Both of those are countries where the vast majority of people know English. Also, see the islands between Japan and Australia, most of those islands also have a significant proportion of their population that can speak English.

Sorry if I sound snarky, but you did kind of ignore some 30+ million english speakers when you expressed doubt that there could be many english speakers on the Japanese servers.

Also, you do seem to be forgetting all the whining that people were having to create characters on the JP servers during the launch issues because the NA and EU servers kept going down. So it is also possible that some people decided to keep playing those characters (you know, just like you apparently decided to) instead of starting over on the NA or EU servers.