Japanese Players & my observationsFollow

Necropost... not a good job.

But this is a good post, i do remember reading it back when it was 1st posted.

Well, it may have been a necropost but I actually think it has huge significance again, just from some recent experiences.

Many new players joined our servers just over a year ago from the inroduction of Xbox players to FFXI. This release led many non NA and JP players into the game, as PC gaming isnt as big over here in Europe comparitivley.

My linkshell is a European social LS. Scince the 360 version was released, its numbers pretty much exploded from a small group of friends making their way through the game, to a "proper" LS. Many of these players needed excessive help, as the its a very overwhelming game to walk into late, as many early NA players found many years ago.

Those new Xbox players who had experience through the Beta testing were from a server that essentially had its own laws and conventions. Some far different from ours on established servers, so while they understood the basic elements of the game better, they were still in a different place in terms of social ettiquette.

One thing I noticed in these new players, was a total lack of understanding of the Japanese in our game. From many people, it bordered on pure Rascism. I have had many instances of smacking people down for berating Japanese as a whole, without taking the time to learn about the reasons why things are like this. I was totlly apalled by their words and actions, because like so many other "veterans", had just grown to understand and co-exist on the level described in this post: They have a mistrust of us that simply cannot be erased, yet we do our best without outbursts or hatred.

The newer players who I see exhibit this terrible behaviour, need to read this post. I must admit, I have at times felt a simalar way as the Japanese do to Americans regarding the wave of Xbox players. Im not proud of it, but their inexperienced ways can be distressing to me. The difference is, that there is (generaly) no language barrier for me not to help them as there was for the Japanese.

I think people need to try harder on all sides. I know I do, and this post reminded me of this. Be excellent to eachother!

/hippymode off

This post should be stickied or permanently linked as a must read for this forum :3

/stare Pikko

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I repeat...remove the head, or destroy the brain."









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This is interesting, is there a companion piece where you post a summary of NA players for the Japanese? I'd like to read that too.

And I'm interested to hear what Japanese players were like when they were noobs at the launch of the game. And how do they treat new Japanese players today? Do they all explain things to Japanese noobs? Do all Japanese noobs do a bunch of research before they play? What are Japanese linkshells like?

I think they actually have a much easier time of that, if they're PS2 only. There are softcover FFXI guides in Japan, and they're actually updated reasonably often.