JP players are happy that foreigners are leaving their servers ( FFXIV Tonberry history)

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FFXIV players from different regions speaking different languages playing together for 8 years, what could possibly go wrong?

Thanks to Katate-san for the interview. Check out his tutorial on how to play FFXIV one-handed over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbdHXpznHW0

0:00 Introduction
0:41 Tonberry server history
1:45 Why JP players left Tonberry
4:28 Change in Kujata
5:11 JP player’s thoughts on new Oceanic data center
6:52 Interview with Katate-san
9:04 My thoughts and conclusion

Demographics from Luckybancho: https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/

Twitter screenshot credit, Nekodayo: https://twitter.com/nekodayo1209/status/1393404934100447232

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6 thoughts on “JP players are happy that foreigners are leaving their servers ( FFXIV Tonberry history)”

  2. 4:13 Now I don't play on JP but in EU and I'd say we more often than not people are greeting and stuff.
    Now you could argue it's a NA thing if that more uncommon in NA datacenters but lumping the whole English community, I think that's incorrect.

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  4. Interesting video, played on tonberry since 2013 myself, where did you get your statistics out of curiosity? Im a little skeptical if im honest. feels like theres more JP than Aus on Tonberry.

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  5. From the other side of things, after playing ffxi for over a decade, on servers that were a mix of everyone, I was ecstatic when they announced regional servers for xiv. The Japanese player base in XI was the most horribly toxic group of ppl you could possibly play an mmo with. "JP only" became a ffxi meme for a reason, and not because of language barriers. Your comment "EN players like to do it fast, but Japanese players like to do it right" is a perfect example of the arrogance and superiority that plagued the Japanese community in that game. I love playing with ppl from different parts of the world, that is one of the best things about mmos, a little cultural diversity that can help you to understand this big crazy world a little better. I have played with ppl from the EU, Korea, Mexico, Canada, etc and yes a few from Japan, with zero issues. But I have absolutely no time for this xenophobic bs.

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  6. I think the comment that English speakers like doing things fast and Japanese like doing them right is rather demeaning. There is no "right" way to run a dungeon other than to complete it. I think a better way to have discussed this would have been from a viewpoint of dungeon/raid running strategies.

    While I cannot speak for all English speakers here in the US doing things faster is part of a dungeon strategy that tries to avoid certain mechanics or phases by DPS'ng the boss as quickly as possible. The shorter a group can make a particular set of hard mechanics last or having the chance to skip them altogether reduces the chance of a wipe and having to start over.

    Based on your video it appears that Japanese players prefer to experience all of mechanics and put more emphasis on player movements and avoiding the mechanics over skipping the mechanics altogether. It is a slower approach but that does not make the JP players slow any more than the EN approach makes their players fast.

    To be honest the differences in strategic philosophies is nothing unique to the Japanese datacenters and can be seen in the US and EU as well. In fact there are never ending posts on the English forum over the very subject. I suspect it is just more visible and pronounced on the JP servers because of the other cultural differences between East and West being in play as well.

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