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Hello,

Today I was sent to prison for a very dumb reason. Please hear me out before you start telling me how I am wrong!!


I was in Jeuno seeking party for 5 hours. I get an invite from a Japenese player on the 2nd hour. He finds out I am an English player. He says sorry no english players. I go back to seeking.

At the 4th hour I get another invite. Then he finds out I am not Japenese and he tells me sorry JP only. So then instead of being rejected I make the mark on search info to E instead of nothing. Then go to the search comment and write:

" Japenese = No Thanks! " " English Party ONLY "

So I go AFK for about 1 hour. I come back and I see myself disconnected from the server. I thought maybe I lost my connection, anyway I log back on. I see myself in Mordion so I place a GM call asking why I have been brought there.

A GM pops in there. He asks me If I know why I was brought here. I say no, then he tells me I made a racist comment in my search info.

Can someone please explain to me how I am being racist if I dont want to party with a Japenese player because I cannot understand them and I have no fun since I dont get to talk to anyone.

I have seen many Japenese people who write "JP ONLY" in their bazaar info or search info. There is a player whos bazaar info says "Look at you impolite Americans". So now I am restricted to who I can party with?

Yes... The GM said I offended another Japenese player...

As if I didn't get offended when I got 2 invites and then had to leave the party both times.

Not sure you deserve jail if this is all there is to the story, but I think it was the:


That may have gotten you in trouble.
/em Shrugs

Starting to think that there is no hope for the game to mesh well, when so many players have this on going battle between Japanese and North American players.

/em sighs dejectedly

It was a JP GM because when he first got me in the prison, He wrote in some JP letters and I didnt understand then he wrote in english....

JPs have all types of anti-NA comments posted all the time. I am becoming more and more disgusted with the JP people. I am at the point where I have JE listed and I get some JP parties and members, but most are jerks and some say they don't want an NA because we don't know how to play a character. Most parties I've been in have had members re-invite for my good pulling, JPs are really pissing me off now.

Edited, Sun Jul 18 10:52:06 2004 by VenomVPStreet

Hmmm, I don't really care if you dont belive me.

Rate down? Yes, go ahead rate me down all you want. I just came here to ask how what I did was wrong.


Edit: I bet your both Japenese huh?

(Oh no, some number went down /cry)

Edited, Sun Jul 18 11:08:20 2004 by Caude

Umm, ok thats great...

anyway I don't understand how what I wrote in my search info would offend someone...?

Edit: Well, I dont understand you (person who posted above me) but if I offended you too, I'm sorry.

Edited, Sun Jul 18 11:23:08 2004 by Caude

it may be yet another issue with the auto translator. not sure how {No Thanks!} comes across. but i to smell something funny. tho if you are being fully truthful then take it up with support. as in and of it self being thrown into prison or being talked to by a GM for something like that is a violation of the EULA by the GM. also according to the GM's i have talked to (was being harrased in group chat) they can do nothing about anything said in group chat. (that was for jail bait by the way).

I agree i dont nearly run into JP party problems. Many times i'll get PT invites in full japenese but i can read the PT i'll kindly respond with {i'm sorry} {i dont speak any Japanese} {invite} {Party}? to which i usually get something back in auto translator and promptly get a PT invite from them.


I think Caitsith has done really well in bringing NA/JP together. We work well together.

Sent Maotut an email with the link to this thread, i'll get an official word on it.

first
i don't know how japanese FFXI player would see {japanese} on their log window
*anyone here bought the JP version? ^^;*

it's either {nihon jin} (ppl) or {nihon go} (language)
because in english, word "japanese" not only can refer to ppl, but also the language

if it's translated to {nihon go} , really, i don't see the point where you being racist. but , if it's {nihon jin}, well.. yes, you must accept that you were being racist.
Not because you intend to be racist, but you just don't know what the auto translate fucntion does.

second,
instead of that, from my point of view, using "{I don't speak any Japanese}" seems better rather than "{Japanese} = {No, Thank you}, {English Party Only}".
As some of the posters before me pointed it out, the reason why Japanese ppl don't want you to be in PT maybe because of the communication.