Are NAs & EUs responsible for this?Follow

Possibly because for long periods at launch the JP servers we the only ones allowing character creation? I wouldn't blame 'they' for trying to play a game they've bought...

How is that possible?

All servers are open to all players, there is no them and us or gtfo and go back to EU/US. In fact the so called JP servers service a much larger area than just Japan, anyone closer to the Pacific servers will be using them. I can't imagine why you call it gatecrashing that is very rude and uncalled for I hate to think how dead the servers would be without all "These people"

That's because all the JP players are asleep or at school or work when you're trying to log in from NA or EU.

I can't find it now and I have a meeting in four minutes, but I'll keep digging at lunchtime.

I can't even find it T_T

I remember seeing the numbers and being surprised myself. It was the same post that mentioned JP players having a roughly 50/50 male/female character split, with NA being skewed 60/40 male/female. (Because I guess some male players in the NA/EU regions are less comfortable playing catgirls.) Also Roegadyn have the smallest population.

I think it's safe to expect sub-default on all your posts, simply because I think that is your default posting rating. The rating your posts get is basically an average of your post history, hence, you only have 17 posts and it looks like a lot of sub-d'd so now you start at default or lower until you get your average back up.

I just checked the Pacific servers and find that most of them are X'd out to character creation including Hades which is a server I have a character on. So..I hopped on to see how many were playing seeing as all US/EU servers are open at the moment. Surprise, surprise Hades is just about empty I checked out Ul'Dah and Gridania and there seem to be more NPC's than players. So I'm thinking character creation isn't that great an indicator of server load.

Ah. I'm obviously mis-remembering then. Maybe I made it all up in my head!

What I do absolutely definitely remember was Yoshi P saying that the JP data center problems were worse. Part of that was because their prime time is more concentrated, too. The NA/EU primetimes occur in a rolling wave that spans a good 12 hours, whereas the JP servers get hammered between 9PM and 12AM.

So maybe it wasn't necessarily that the JP data centers had more players overall, but they had more players all trying to log in at the same time.

Edited, Oct 1st 2013 5:32pm by Catwho

I remember reading about the JP Prime time. Basically SE, iirc, was aiming for like 200-300k people playing world wide. In JP alone, during JP peak time there were 250k accounts or more trying to log in (was why SE was all happy about records, was a big deal for them as a company).

As to the OP... I'll miss-quote myself from another thread now buried:



I'm not Japanese American, let us make sure that is clear, but I speak for them to the OP (No Japanese American should be ashamed). I play in the JP server Titan because Japan is 14 hours ahead of me in time. It is getting ready to be 9am over there. That means most of their world is off at work or in School on their Wed. Means the server isn't packed. I only have Server Qs on the weekend when I try to log on mid-day..and it is always less then 20 people.
When the realms were packed and everyone was QQing about not being able to log into the NA/EU realms, guess what...on the other side of the world people were asleep/work/school. I called it" Smart playing, or, playing during their off time... Just like in FFXI.

Oh and I did go back to where I came from..see..in FFXI Titan was my home world, SE then merged it in to another one. So technically I did go back home, to Titan.

Edit: Before something about language in game. I heal people. I don't really need to talk to you to make sure you don't die, I also do my own research for fights (so no lingo barrier there)...and yea..auto-trans...something about most Japanese people know English anyways, but playoff they don't, w/e.

Edited, Oct 1st 2013 7:03pm by Sandinmygum

Hey, there's the old FF community I remember.

[JP onry.gif]

Quickly dropping here to address an important point.

Uchida-boy, are you really Japanese?日本語がどうでしょうか？

I don't buy your story, and I don't appreciate a troll spreading unnecessary hate and abusing the good people of these forums that usually no matter the context try to offer a reasonable and calm answer.

Whatever your agenda is, please get out of here. Your attitude is most unwelcome.

Ken

Because this time SE didn't force all of us into the same boat... now, **** off to your own boat

Don't worry Ken, we know ****-offs like that are only representatives of other ****-offs, not the communities of NA, EU or JP at large.

And in saying that, it makes me miss Miia. She was so super sweet. I think she outright quit FFXI as I stopped seeing her on. To me, she is more representative of the JP populace than Uchida ever would be. When I first started, the JP players were friendly and cheerful to be playing with anyone. It's the ****-offs on both sides that started this idea of JPONRY, and I wish it would just die.