Stop kvetching, I'm playing right now and you can tooFollow

Why does it necessarily go in the trash?



You've indeed made it clear that kvetching on an internet forum is your idea of a good time. ;)

Actually, I can prove that lots of people do by introducing you to the people I know on Kujata who are doing so (right now) and are happy to be able to do so while others sit around complaining instead.

That's your choice, and that's fine. Personally, I'd rather play the game for a while than sit there mashing buttons trying to get on to a character on a server that is overloaded to the point that after 20 minutes it was still a no-go.

It's also fun, imho, to experience the storyline from another nation's/job's perspective. I started a second character in FFXI after getting a few jobs to cap in that game as well just to experience some other stuff that I would've otherwise missed. This seems like an opportune time to do so. I don't really want to transfer the other character - I've met some cool folks on Kujata who are also there for the same reason.

Also worth note, the whole "no one will speak English there" thing doesn't hold true: there're lots of English speakers on Kujata. In addition to the fact that most Japanese people learn English as part of their default school curriculum, there're also a lot of Asian folks playing there from non-Japanese countries (Singapore has a huge FF fan base, for example) as well as Australians and others. English acts as a common language for a large number of people around the world in general, though, nowadays.

The other MMO I've played extensively was FFXI. FFXI didn't have multiple sets of servers; everyone was on the same servers, so I ended up playing with a lot of people from all over the world. I was one of the first US folks to hit level cap and end-game, and spent a significant amount of time doing end-game activities with a linkshell made up primarily of Asians (Japanese, Korean, and others as they got access to FFXI well before it was released in the US... in fact the leader was from Singapore).

As I said, most Japanese people who have completed school speak pretty good English.

Ahem. Look at my sig. You're wrong.

I don't see how the spot was "meant for someone who is not me", or how it's inconsiderate. If squenix's intent were to disallow players in some countries from playing on some servers, it's relatively trivial to do so using geoip on the source IP address during character creation. Further, they would've said so. This was obviously not their intent, and so saying that it's somehow a spot "meant for" someone else seems entirely silly. Meant for by whom?

yeah that's an inane comment McNasty. My legacy character was transferred on to a JP server without my input. They can see where everyone's account is from - so if they didn't want NA on the JP data centre worlds, they would just block people with NA accounts from being able to make them there - or IP block etc.

The regionalization is a suggestion, not a law.

They sell the game in Australia. There are no Australian servers. Are Australian people not supposed to play? By your logic, that seems right...

really? Australia isn't in Asia it's it's own continent. Also, they speak english there so the NA/EU servers are where they will most liekly be playing.

I would also like to point out speaking different languages isn't neccesarily a hinderance. While i was playing FFXI we had an LS with about 50 members on it. You would think thats a lot of people, but about 25 were english and the other 25 were japanese. Not all of them could speak english, but the ones that did communicated with the rest of them. Why did we have a half/half LS you might wonder? Because this guaranteed we had enough people online around the clock to camp HNM's that went out of each others time zones, get ToD's, or to help each other out or whatever. We had a great relationship with each other and we all realized the potential mixing both cultures together would bring.

I can't deny that there were some japanese players who didn't want anything to do with the english speaking comunity and vice-versa, but don't generalize an entire population. A lot of the japanese players didn't mind playing together, and some of them even found it a good learning experience to how we do things as opposed to them.

Edited, Sep 1st 2013 1:53pm by Keysofgaruda

No, it isn't. Australia is a continent unto itself, which also includes New Zealand and some other small islands.



English. However, English is spoken widely on all JP servers, and connectivity-wise, Australia hits north america by way of Tokyo 9 times out of 10.

is anyone else getting error 2002? i'm trying to refrain from posting on the forum about my question but seeing that some people can login... while some cannot... i can't help but to try asking T_T i've been trying every 3 mins, 5 mins, 3 hours, for the past 48 hours it just won't let me get past the launcher!! T_T