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    Answers from JP Players

    Welcome to the trial run of
    Talking Points
    or
    "Why every JP players wishes you were dead."

    Ha, just kidding. There is some frank discussion contained within, which I think is good. Overall, I like how the experiment went.

    To recap, I chose 10 questions from the previous thread. I tried to mix in some fun questions with the serious, to make it friendly as well as informative. Despite some (many?) criticisms of foreign players, there wasn't a single poster who criticized the survey itself, or thought communicating with us would be a bad idea. Also, they seemed receptive to hearing what we thought on some issues as well.

    As for return questions, there were very few. There were actually more general requests for our opinions than actual questions posed, and I guess people just got caught up with all the questions they had to answer. I'm kind of relieved in a way, since this was a lot of work
    Still, I saved what questions they did ask, and plan to go back and make a fresh thread to formally collect some more.

    I hope you enjoy reading about what they think, and don't get too caught up by the cranky ones. I did make sure to defend against some of their criticisms, and after getting stuff off there chests through the survey, the vast majority were interested in compromise.

    This was a lot of fun to do, and hopefully people reading will feel the same way.

    CLICK HERE TO READ

    Feel free to comment, copy/paste amusing responses here to discuss, and tell your friends if you think they would be interested.

    Thanks to all the people who submitted questions, sorry if I didn't use yours D: and thanks to people who supported this experiment so far.

    I wish I could stay around for the discussion, but it's like 4am.

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    Great work as usual, Elmer. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

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    Awesome! Great read Elmer. Thanks again~

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    Where is the AV question!?

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    Adaberk is purple regardless of what they say D:

    It was a very interesting read, really looking forward to seeing more questions and answers from both sides.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seedz View Post
    Adaberk is purple regardless of what they say D:
    ^

    And I remember when I was starting the game how much I didn't like the idea of joining servers already in progress. I ended up joining a relatively new one / where most of the beta NAs went by chance, but I could have gone for server choices like they're suggesting when I started.

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    Any plans to do a reverse version of this? Could be pretty cool

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    Ultramarine? ;o

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    Was kind of surprised by the reaction to NAs trying to communicate in broken Japanese. I usually avoid it for much the same way they said they avoid trying to talk in broken English, as well as for suppressing my weeaboo power level.

    Another vote for doing the "reverse" of this with them asking questions.

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    Can we have them ask questions too? That would be great.

    And I'm really suprized by the attempting to speak japanese thing. That took me by surprize. Good work elmer.

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    Another vote for the reverse here!
    What questions do they have for us?

    And I'm glad you started this little experiment!

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    This is really good insights. Thank you for this Elmer.

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    Great job, very interesting.

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    Great job as always, was a fun long read (one of the few times I didn't get a headache from reading this much). I was most pleased with the responses regarding NAs who try to speak Japanese with them even if it is a little or broken Japanese.

    Edit: Yea, I'd like to also hear questions they have for us as well

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    Foot notes: Make fucking JP English AND mixed servers, they hate us ww fucking japs



    c wut i did thar?

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    Shimmy shimmy ya shimmy yam shimmy ya
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    Wow, this was a pretty cool read. JP players seem so apologetic about everything like the stuff about saying sorry before and after a shout. Awesome job!

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    Really good read, I must say.

    "^^" is Japanese in origin? I didn't know that. I use it often but mostly because I try to remove myself from the :D XD jajaja crowds.

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    Shimmy shimmy ya shimmy yam shimmy ya
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    I always just figured the "w" factor would piss off JP players, so I was surprised about that too lol.

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    A+, would read again.

    Also, +1 for the reverse questions idea.

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    Pretty darn cool, thanks for doin' this elmer.

    I think most of their "questions" to us are buried in their answers already. Maybe instead of having them specifically ask us questions, we could just have a post where we respond to their responses? It could be a sort of community dialogue, yknow?

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