EreRant #8: Why Erecia Hates the Japs

[ereblog]

This is a topic I’ve been wanting to talk about for some time. It’s a delicate subject, and so I’m handing it in the way that I feel is best: by being as bluntly honest as I can from the get-go. Go ahead and flame me if you want. Honestly, if I haven’t offended at least one person’s sensibilities with this, I don’t think I did my job.

Comments

[tacrozar]

Re: the game

[ereblog]

Think about other time sinks not related to drop rates.

Why do you have to wait 15 minutes for a ??? to respawn from popped NMs?

Why do you have to wait for an airship to arrive, then the airship to travel, when there's nothing to do on the ride? Why isn't that a cutscene?

Why do you get any "you must wait longer" message when you want to repeately attack mobs or craft items?

None of this has anything to do with the "getting results" that you claim is ingrained in NA culture. They're simply times we must spend doing nothing for no explained reason. My objections to these aren't that I want more leet lootz, but rather I want more minutes (which turn into hours) of my day back that I have spent sitting around doing absolutely nothing for reasons that amount to nothing but poor game design.

[vedderffxi]

Could be wrong, but I don't think so ... the wait message you get when trying to "repeatedly attack" is based off the delay of your weapon. It's so that you don't supercede the stated delay on your weapon by constantly disengaging/engaging.

On point about the crafting back-to-back wait message though ... there's no need for that, imo, and it's always been a bother.

[tacrozar]

Thank god for ??? 15 min respawns. The alternative would have been to camp and claim monsters. (HELLO DIORITE!) Those respawns are probably tied to monster respawns since most mobs respawn either in 5 min or in 15 min. Every game has similar types of "monster respawn" rates.

The CS's you speak of are annoying. The don't take long and frankly there isn't much to do on the airship. Even WOW when traveling from one place to another... its a "CS-ish."

The crafting items I view similarly to spell recast. It is a bit annoying but its bearable.

[anonymous]

I actually applauded after reading this. It hit the nail right on the head, Ere. It's not the first time I've heard of people feeling this way (myself included), but it's the first time I've read a rant that argued both sides of the matter to a crystal clear point.

Don't get me wrong, I'm far from feeling this way about only one group of players...imbeciles exist in all cultures, all over the world. Any MMO out there has its fair share of people who aren't just idiotic, but refuse to improve/remedy the fact that they are so. Unfortunately, though, it feels like a large amount of them are Japanese in the virtual world of FFXI.

Anyway, I don't want to write too much into the topic here, as I'll wind up writing too much. Again, good job on arguing that fact, Ere. Good luck in future adventues, hopefully you'll have less contact with the bad and more with the good.

-M

[anonymous]

While I can see what you mean for a few things, I disagree with a lot of it. I won't comment on your relationships with the JP population, since it's obviously a personal thing. I don't have a problem with JP players, but then again most of the JP I've met have been fairly polite. Perhaps I'm lucky, I don't know

! (=o)

[ext_136583]

I really enjoyed your post. I understand a lot of your rant and am VERY glad I don't have some bamboo stick shoved so far up my #@%& to be all "ZOMG U R TEH H8ZORS TEH NIHONJIN DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" at you. *lol*

But, I also enjoyed some anonymous person's comment about how the Japanese game style is different from American/non-Japanese game style. That's the only thing I can totally agree with... very easily because I enjoy FFXI, I enjoy(ed) WOW, I actually go back and play a few Guitaru Hero songs, and I'm slowly, yet surely, finishing Okami. I enjoy both Japanese and American gaming styles, but I can understand when someone doesn't like one or the other.

The only thing I cannot understand is how you folks enjoy those first-person shooter games... then, again, I'm cannon fodder when I play them, so that might explain much. (;p)

[anonymous]

On this note why do some JPs freak out when you /check them without asking?

Weeners

[anonymous]

Difference in translation. For us, it says "----- examines you." on their side, it looks something like "----- looks and you intently." or something along those lines. Also difference in culture or some bogus like that, them having strict manners and all.