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Geez. Why not blame the Japanese players for badly play BRDs, global warming, and proliferation of nuclear technology, too, while you're at it.

Like it or not, a lot of players look to the JP side of the FFXI for a point of reference on how to play. The logic is the Japanese players have been at this longer, so they know what to do. Its utterly flawed logic, but the younger portion or the western player base actively does this.

If you have played any western MMOs (possibly sans WoW), you'll see it is common courtesy to notify a PT of when you are leaving and replace yourself. Yet due to the luxury of the Japanese really only living in a couple of time zones, they don't do this much at all, espeically on the most densely populated servers.

If I have a JP WHM and RDM in a PT and one has to go, both leave and they 9 times out of 10 will not (1) give advance notice and (2) nor will they find a replacement. They just leave.

Western players consider that extremely rude. We live in different time zones, acknowledge it and make the effort to work with each other by finding replacements. But when half the community refuses to do that, should it be any surprise when other players just stop making the effort?

Fact is, if you're JP on a smaller server, you have to be will to work with NAs and EUs to get things done, but JP on higher-pop servers just love to take advantage of the fact they don't need us and actively show it in EXP PTs. How they behave would be fine - if FFXI were an JP-only MMORPG. But its not.