Comments on: Sparks of a Flame War Being Sighted?

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:11:45 +0000

yeah, for example, tendencies to gossip.

sometimes in sarashi, some guy just put up a name that didn’t do the mentioned allegations, just because of revenge/dissatisfaction, etc.

PS. this game makes you hates animals and kill puppies (immature inugamis)

By: 守護霊母Finella

守護霊母Finella — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:27:43 +0000

It’s more of the anonymous nature of 2ch bringing out the worst in people sometime.

By: Wow

Wow — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:30:34 +0000

I didn’t mean that aspect; when I played WoW I also tended to be a bit elitist against crappy players, but it’s the viral aspect that’s daunting. As Japan is more progressed in being “technology-driven” than other countries, the viral and memetic aspect of slandering people and the fine-grained social culture is the one that, based upon Finella’s description, sounds more dangerous or cautioned to the non-Japanese gamer.

I thought generally instead of virally slamming someone on a forum, that on a lot of MMO’s people just stuck to playing with their friends to avoid having to PuG or deal with poor players. But the only thing I can think of to breed such an environment is that Japanese gamers must generally all have a high gaming skill level? And higher level of competitiveness? Higher to the degree of casual people who just want to play a game.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:58:07 +0000

It’s the nature of the game actually which requires you to spend cash to be strong. Without cash items, efficient gold dungeon runs are like not efficient at all. People spent money and want most worth for it.

For comparison: it’s equivalent of RO/whatever grindfest MMO if you have a laggy healer pt member and you lost xx% on your lv 98 because s/he didnt press the button fast enough. How’d you feel?
*In JP server if it happens often then sarashi on the laggy healer. Sarashi for each MMO exists in 2ch.

By: Wow

Wow — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:24:00 +0000

I know it’s not on topic but, wow, I never knew that the Japanese culture of gaming was so complex. Hell you could probably write a novel on it and sell some books to psychology researchers, hahaha. In any event you have thoroughly convinced me that I will never, ever, ever play on a Japanese server.