The Japanese players are definitely not happy at all.Follow

I spoke to quite a few of my friends, and their friends. But they all seem to come to the same answer. They are downright not happy at all that their servers have seen such a huge increase of foreigners. They know there were ongoing problems, aware of the fact with the NA/EU server issues but they are wondering why the foreigners or aliens who invaded their servers in such large drastic numbers have no patience till the servers on their side of the world gets fixed.

I guess for the east it was a matter of patience where they did not see it happening in the west.

NA/EU players chose to go to the JP servers because they couldn't play on their own. It's not their fault that the servers are massively overcrowded. Players in search of a way to play the game by any means, chose to make characters on the JP servers. JP players should point their finger at SE, not NA/EU paying customers. If SE didn't want NA/EU players on the JP servers, they'd region-lock them.

I tried my best to phrase this post without coming off sounding like an agitated, entitled, prick, but honestly I think it was unavoidable. JP players are just going to have to deal with NA/EU "aliens" until our mothership is repaired. If JP players expect NA/EU players to just sit around and wait to play the game, while they get to play the game without even the slightest hiccup, they can kiss my ***. If that's the mentality they roll with, I should make a character on the JP servers and just leave it logged in while I'm unable to log into the NA/EU servers.

Edited, Aug 28th 2013 2:38am by Teracide

The JP servers are experiencing similar issues actually, I play mostly in JP evenings (from Australia). I wasn't able to log into Tiamat last night due to a lack of slots, and the majority of JP servers were closed for new character creation. Ended up making a new character on a US server with a known Oceanic population so I could get in and play.

You have a much more fond memory than I. All I remember is not getting any response to tells and gear swap spam on examination...

I made many great friends in FFXI, just using an auto-translator and they had a dictionary!

Yes gear was important though, they were pushing 10k exp/hour and so to earn respect you had to play seriously, always have food on you and good gear. I rather liked the maturity to the game, something I find lacking on NA servers, so I'm on a JP server by choice. Teenagers screaming in Ul'dah (no thanks).

Well your friends and their friends seems to be a pretty intolerant closed minded people.

I live in Japan and let me share that the complains here have been at minimum, in fact the physical CE (the only one with early access) has been sold since the beginning of August. In fact Japanese people do not dislike foreigners there are other (half-valid) reasons for them to be somewhat xenophobic, but I won't get into that as those discussions usually don't end well.

Perhaps if you wander around 2channel and other dark places house of the angry and the dark-willed you will find a bunch of empty complains but that's unavoidable.

Also, i don't think its fair to generalize about the jp community. I hope the NA/EU trolls and ragers don't become the face of the NA/EU community.

i cant agree for some reason. I am half Japanese and can speak and understand conversational Japanese, i also understand the culture. However, the written part of it is still a language barrier to me. In FFXI i would use the auto translate and to my best abilities, would accommodate to the way they would act, but even at that point i felt a barrier and a bias against the western part of me. Luckily i was geared and didnt do stupid things? Even so, i would not want to be in a JP dominated server, and likewise i would not want them to be stuck in a NA/EU server just for the purpose of "internationalism"? just my thoughts... any feedback here?

So, tl;dr version: baka gaijins

This takes me back to XI launch.

I sincerely doubt the OP has spoken to anyone besides his left hand lately.
Minimum post count, no meaningful contribution except another complaint
in another thread, deliberate use of the term "alien" which, mind you, is just
an awkward English translation for the term 外国人.

As I can not confirm the "great wave of unhappiness" he talks about among
my fellow players, I presume it's just a sock stirring up some intercontinental
hate to calm his own childish frustration; especially since Japanese servers
are experiencing exactly the same problems atm.

i love NA/EU players who even thinks for a second that the majority of japanese LOVE them. I had a few people claim they do and they believe playing on japanese serve them right in long run..

too bad, they never played a real japanese onry game