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My PlayOnline account is still active, so the Plan A didn't work for me, but trying B out showed all of my old characters. The odd thing is, I had played a bit after my initial Taru Paladin got deleted with a character of the same name and it wasn't listed. So who knows.<
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Sorry to post again, but seriously, did they ever make NA servers? That was like my only problem with the game. Japanese players wouldn't group with NA players and the language barrier was too difficult to get over.<
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No, they never made "NA onry" servers. The auto translator makes it possible to have a functional party with japanese and english speakers.<
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Is that the same translator that was already in the game from the start? Because it alone wasn't enough imo to get over the language barrier. <i></i>

Yes it's still the same thing, but like I said you can have functional even great multilingual groups with that. You can set up skill chains, say I'm pulling this, sleep that, basic things like that, but yeah you're not gonna be able to communicate everything. And yes there's still kiddies that shout <Mithra> <Hand> <Job> <Do you have it?> and other similar nonsense. It was funny the first few times, but it just gets old after a while.<
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Don't try and give kudos to the translator functions of FFXI. I still want to know what the designers had in mind when they added "[Are you alone?]" Mega creepy...<
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I asked that above. Apparentlly there are not NA-only servers. <i></i>

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That UI is the fucking worst I hate it so much. I don't see how my wife keeps playing it. <
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The UI isn't so bad if you are using a controller. But man, I had so many issues in 2003(?) trying to play it with a keyboard.<
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