2 of the MMOs I've played before actually had yum-cha sessions.
We would meet up and chat - it was more fun that way.

We should make a yam cha session anytime before release! xD

Omg ro2 coming out? Haah I heard about it long time ago.. Surely epic fail game with a lot of bitter and farmer out of control.
Lol shojikun I m going to china on 8/8 will be back around 16 :0 then we can have second yam cha .

Sure.. go china? Hurmm i have bad memories of friends going to china and come back.. oh well that tales will be sealed, xmo busuk mulut rofl!

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Added on August 2, 2010, 4:38 pmSo what kind of tools you going to use to play FF XIV? im personally liking using Game Pad (PS2 Controller) with my PC xD

This post has been edited by shojikun: Aug 2 2010, 04:38 PM

this is my first time on ff mmo, but im curious hows the control like? mind to share? would it be like normal mmo with W,S,A,D to control the movement while mouse to view and interact?

Yes, you will be able to play with keyboard and mouse. Is preference matter, i can play with both Keyboard and Mouse or Keyboard, Mouse and Gamepad

great!! thanks!.. looking forward to play, hopefully could get some few more kaki... its a change of mmo for me PVP to PVE oriented.. buying a new comp just for this!!

i strongly suggest u guys to gather all english-speaking asian to play in same server by spread this new in all HK, TW, SEA forums.

Interactions among players is the main part of MMORPG, FF14 environment or culture will probably same as FF11: [JP ONLY] [ENGLISH, NO THANKS]. Our play time is usually after work or school 7pm-11pm, same as japanese, but japanese will reject non-japanese-speaking people to join them lately after suffered from culture crash with North America (NA) players, which affect us directly.

There will probably many missions/quest/monster/battlefields that give decent rewards such as good equipments but required a team of 6 to 24 members, you will see different japanese leaders shout in the town and able to make a full members team quickly, but if someone is shouting by english he will get ignored by everyone. To do different activities, english players oftenly need to find members in their own linkshell or community and make appointment, which mean u cant play certain thing anytime u want by just waiting shout in town, unless there are enough english players(with good fame/skills though).

if u can speak little japanese or already learnt how to survive from FF11, then it doesn't matter which server u go. Also, never to think that ur friend who speak japanese able to take care of u all the time.

Hmm that may be true but i do found a couple of japanese people who actually talk a lot of english

Knowing a little Japanese language does help~ One of my ex-LS mates actually had the JP version installed.

Most of the Japanese are friendly, likewise if you show them back the same they will be more willing to talk to you.
They are more tolerant towards Asian rather than NA.

As a newbie last time, I actually spoke to a JP player who told me all about Dynamis Raids LOL
He tried hard and spoke in English and even asked me when he wasnt sure of the words.

they may NA people or asia people who speak good japanese lol. A lots of taiwanese and hong kong people especially university graduate/student who into ACG speak good english and japanese.

If their play time are same with JP, why would they join NA while they could join japanese, the majority in game?

English is second language in most countries, so it is true that more japanese understand little english than english people who understand little japanese. Sometime JP play with NA in a team and they used english to communicate, if the team is lame JP will use japanese to tease NA people are idiots as usual, poor NA saw their words but cant understand what they said.

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Added on August 3, 2010, 5:16 pmyea, they are very friendly if they have an open mind or already know u/become friend.
but when u want to join a strange JP team, or any shout team in town,
u send him [Hello] [May I join you?] , u probably will get ignored or translator reply like [i'm sorry] or
[can u speak japanese?], unless they are really desperate.

This post has been edited by noone: Aug 3 2010, 05:16 PM

The next question of course, is how many able and ready players here?

For myself: I'm not so much a casual player, I'm pretty hardcore but not hardcore raider.
If I do play, it will be after 730pm +8GMT on weekdays. Weekends after 12noon +8GMT until late.

Because of the nature of my industry - graphic design/advertising I cannot commit to raid all the time.


I would like to establish perhaps those who are playing afresh/new for a regular party?

This post has been edited by gaeryn: Aug 3 2010, 05:57 PM

fyi , in ffxi , i never even touch the mouse , all keyboard.

btw , the most important phrase in ffxi back in those days were " americanjin janai" they will take u into their pt , ahahha i did it a few times , they all smile, made a few jp friends using that method.

This post has been edited by esca_flo: Aug 3 2010, 06:29 PM

what is Janai means?

I google it, maybe this answer the question http://www.all-about-teaching-english-in-j...esentences.html

its just means im not american, the jps usually refer non jp as gaijin.

ohhh if Ja Nai i know janai i dont know rofl! thank you anyway xD

at least the jp person understood me , thats enuff i guess bwekkkk

This post has been edited by esca_flo: Aug 3 2010, 08:32 PM

So is anyone getting the Collector's Edition? My friend and I are getting it, saving money for it.