[bleakhaus]

Hi -

I'm a law student writing a legal study involving MMORPGs and have a question-- I've looked everywhere, so

thanks to anyone who knows:

In FFXI (and other MMORPGs), do users from different countries (Japan, US, etc)

interact in the same world? Basically, can you form parties and chat with users from other countries?

[Blood Red Poet]

Yes.

[Cease]

Yeah,

there is multi-cultural interaction... though most JP think themselves better than everyone else. But that goes

with every nationality I guess.

GOGO JP PRICK PT.

/endpost. :|

~1

[Blood Red Poet]

though most everyone but EU think themselves better than everyone else.

[Echion]

That is

correct. People from all over the world interact with each other inside FFXI.

[bleakhaus]

Thanks, all-- Is this true for most MMORPGs you know of? Are there any that keep users from different countries

in separate worlds?

[Governator]

Cease :
Yeah, there is multi-cultural interaction... though most JP think themselves better than

everyone else. But that goes with every nationality I guess.

GOGO JP PRICK PT.

/endpost.

:|

~1

Same here. The only reason why I get invites from them is because I'm a mage.

Only once or twice have I gotten invites from a JP when there were other JPs of the same class lfg. I'm sure that

if there were a JP version of any class I'm seeking also LFG, then I would not have gotten the invite....



edit: No, this is not always the same. Infact, this is the first MMO*RPG* that I played which was

multicultural outside of private servers and iRO (international Ragnarok Online). Every other game I've played,

WoW, L2, etc., was restricted to certain regions.

[Rakshas]

In Final

Fantasy XI there is no difference with the server and which culture you have. In World of Warcraft they split the

servers into EU/NA, Korea and JP

[Sephi]

Governator :

Cease :
Yeah, there is multi-cultural interaction... though most JP think

themselves better than everyone else. But that goes with every nationality I guess.

GOGO JP PRICK

PT.

/endpost. :|

~1

Same here. The only reason why I get invites from them is

because I'm a mage. Only once or twice have I gotten invites from a JP when there were other JPs of the same

class lfg. I'm sure that if there were a JP version of any class I'm seeking also LFG, then I would not have

gotten the invite....

edit: No, this is not always the same. Infact, this is the first MMO*RPG* that I

played which was multicultural outside of private servers and iRO (international Ragnarok Online). Every other

game I've played, WoW, L2, etc., was restricted to certain regions.

I highly doubt they would

invite you or any other NA after they would invite a JP because they would think a JP would do better at a job.

It is almost always because of communication. Whenever I am looking for members, I also base who I invite by what

languages they can speak (basically...if they can speak English or not), so it can be easier for everyone.

[Governator]

Sephi :

Governator :

Cease :
Yeah, there is multi-cultural

interaction... though most JP think themselves better than everyone else. But that goes with every nationality I

guess.

GOGO JP PRICK PT.

/endpost. :|

~1

Same here. The only reason why I

get invites from them is because I'm a mage. Only once or twice have I gotten invites from a JP when there were

other JPs of the same class lfg. I'm sure that if there were a JP version of any class I'm seeking also LFG,

then I would not have gotten the invite....

edit: No, this is not always the same. Infact, this is the

first MMO*RPG* that I played which was multicultural outside of private servers and iRO (international Ragnarok

Online). Every other game I've played, WoW, L2, etc., was restricted to certain regions.

I

highly doubt they would invite you or any other NA after they would invite a JP because they would think a JP

would do better at a job. It is almost always because of communication. Whenever I am looking for members, I

also base who I invite by what languages they can speak (basically...if they can speak English or not), so it can

be easier for everyone.

Yeah, I guess. I'm still mentally where/when "JP ONLY" was running

rampant. >_>;;;

[SpadeAce]

im a

drk so i rarely get invites, jp or na XD

[Blood Red Poet]

I

love how ignorant people are. I think someone just said this, but JP like to party with people they can speak

with. Not all JP, but a lot of them. It's the same with NA. On JP messageboards, JP complain about NA exactly the

same way 'we' complain about them. The only difference is that we brought RMT into their game.

[Phlow]

Blood Red Poet :

though most everyone but EU think themselves better than everyone else.

Re: Irony

[Blood Red Poet]

I'm NA.

[Falconblade]

The only difference is that we brought RMT into their game.

That makes me laugh.

[naue]

Falconblade :

The only difference is that we brought RMT into their game.

That makes

me laugh.

can thank our friends in china for economizing fucking video games..there are no

green cards/passports there, just WoW accnts.

[Aable]

Thanks, all-- Is this true for most MMORPGs you know of? Are there any that keep users from different countries in

separate worlds?

starwars galaxies as seperate japanese servers.

[Evilduck]

Yes, In

FFXI we do party and play in the same world as the JP/EU(Me being NA ).
As far as I know most other MMO's

don't do this. So we are special :boing

[locketaru]

bleakhaus :
Thanks, all-- Is this true for most MMORPGs you know of? Are there any that keep

users from different countries in separate worlds?

No... Several Korean MMORPG have different

worlds for different set of languages... Such as Asian Servers and English servers... Some es. Maple Story,

Priston Tale, Thang... and Others...

Some older games like Ultima Online, since the server software is free

nowdays, have thousands of different servers each with their languages... I know several Italian Ultima Online

servers...

On other note, FFXI doesn't have a server per language.. but I know some communities are bigger

depending of each world, Fairy = Italian, Fenrir = French, ecc..


(This have nothing to do with the

discution, but I personally enjoy an XP party more with japanese people)

[Rakshas]

Yup

it's fun with JP. instead of bitching about getting a spell cast they just say the spell name with auto

translator and that's it.