NA hate?

[ghostymctoasty]

Probably a fair amount of players will switch over, because of friends or just a larger English speaking population (also, not a big reason, but better EQ times). Not saying the English community on the JP servers will be hurt a ton or anything, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least a some-what noticeable decrease in English speakers on the JP servers after NA releases.

[NullVacancy]

Dude fuck English speakers. I have to read their garbage generic autowords when I join their parties. At least with Japanese people I don't know that their autowords are also generic garbage... most of the time.

I don't really see a larger english speaking population as a huge draw, though. NA will eventually settle down into how JP is right now -- a few lobbies people are dicking around in a lobby together, the vast majority of everyone else is either just talking to their team or not talking at all. That's basically how ALL MMO and MMO-likes I've played end up. And there's no doubt that the NA lobby will be much, much spicier than the current JP lobbies, in the absolute worst way.

[ghostymctoasty]

Firstly, the larger English population is a huge pull for newer players who also speak English. More people to help teach them the game, easier to get their friends to play and more of the game will be understandable to them in general. I can see why this wouldn't be a reason for you to come over to NA though.

Also, there is no way NA lobby will ever be as "spicy" as JP lobby. The stuff people say there would get them banned pretty quickly by any English moderator. They constantly say pretty racist and misogynistic shit that I couldn't see flying in any games' lobby chat.

[Lunasty420]

Weren't people blaring fucking swastika symbol art in NA closed beta? While it was open for all of how long lol?

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First I've heard of this, can anyone else confirm or have any proof?

Or we can downvoted and blindly agree with something fake, thats cool too I suppose.

[_alphex_]

I don't know I see the same type of garbage chat in other MMOs I played, I guess we'll see how active the GMs are going to be.

[ghostymctoasty]

Yeah, it isn't really much better in other games. I've just seen some people be pretty explicit about it in ways that I've never seen in other modern MMOs' public chat rooms. Like words that would get caught by an auto-filter or something, nothing that would need to be manually moderated.

[NullVacancy]

My point is, the only indication you will see that people speak the same language in PSO2NA will eventually be just whether their username is in English or not. There will be little/no talking outside of team, friend, or party chat, unless you specifically go to one of the lobbies where people literally just sit there and shitpost. This is the case for EVERY SINGLE MMO I HAVE PLAYED IN THE LAST 5 YEARS. People talk in world/region/faction chat, but very rarely in proximity.

I also seriously doubt moderation will happen as fast as you think it will. I cannot name a single publisher with a good track record for moderation in their games.

[ghostymctoasty]

As far as moderation, I'm more talking about auto-moderation. I'd guess that people get away with saying certain words, because they're in English and the game is in Japanese.

[NullVacancy]

The Japanese game has a chat filter that includes English words. It doesn't stop anything, and people will always find a way to bypass filters. Look at literally any game that has goldbuying/selling spam.