Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
Are you playing the same game as I am?

I've lost count of how many times i've seen japanese people refusing to team up for something that would be both faster and more rewarding with a teamup. Of course, this is also true for the rest of the game's population, I just don't find japanese players all that more efficient than the rest. At least not anymore.

The biggest difference between english and japanese players today is that japanese players use the (alleged) language barrier as an excuse to not even answer your questions, while english speaking people at least rudely turn your request down.
I have not yet played FFXIV. I was referring to when I played FFXI. During that time, I did not experience anything you described. I always found Japanese players to be helpful and efficient. They always responded to my requests for parties promptly even when turning me down. Maybe sometimes I got turned down for the {I don't speak any English} reason but I found that pefectly reasonable. There were some times where I didn't want to play in a jp party myself for that reason.

In general, though, I always found Japanese players willing to team up with me if we had the same goals in mind. There were even a few times in FFXI where I was the lone English player in a jp party, and many more times where I was in an all English speaking party with a lone Japanese member. On almost all those occasions I was impressed by the jp players. The auto-translate made things quite easy and I never really had issues with comminication.