ESO Japan

Slack

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how the Japanese server is doing?
It launched back in 2016, but since then I havent heard much from it.
I imagine a game like this would have a pretty hard time on the Asian market for following reasons: No super-size boobs, boobs not revealed enough, boobs not jiggly enough, gameworld not overly cute and cheesy. Not to forget that female characters look older than 12.

But still I wonder if its even up at all

karthrag_inak

Not sure if excuse to talk about boobs.

Slack

No I am serious, i have played a few Asian RPGs like BDO, Archeage, Dragons Dogma and it seems to be a pretty big deal over there (literally)

Acrolas

There is no Japan server. It's a Japanese language client using the North American PC megaserver.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25713

Slack

Acrolas wrote: »

There is no Japan server. It's a Japanese language client using the North American PC megaserver.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25713

Indeed, i suppose it blows then

Elsonso

I have seen them in the game. At least for a while, some of the Japanese were using "jp" at the end of their account names.

They partnered with a Japanese company, and I think they do all the support, including translating the articles and announcements, and they have their own community forum.

They don't stand out on the NA server. For all I know, ZOS has partitioned them off in the game so it is like they have their own server. It is entirely possible for the megaserver to sort people in zones so they are grouped by language.

maxjapank

lordrichter wrote: »

I have seen them in the game. At least for a while, some of the Japanese were using "jp" at the end of their account names.

They partnered with a Japanese company, and I think they do all the support, including translating the articles and announcements, and they have their own community forum.

They don't stand out on the NA server. For all I know, ZOS has partitioned them off in the game so it is like they have their own server. It is entirely possible for the megaserver to sort people in zones so they are grouped by language.

There are quite a few Japanese players and guilds. You likely don't realize they are there because they play in the Oceanic time zones.

AzraelKrieg

I see them around on the NA server. Haven't played with any in a fair while though since I don't often use the group finder and that's the last time I interacted with them.

Vapirko

There’s a Japan server? How do you access it?

AlienatedGoat

maxjapank wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

I have seen them in the game. At least for a while, some of the Japanese were using "jp" at the end of their account names.

They partnered with a Japanese company, and I think they do all the support, including translating the articles and announcements, and they have their own community forum.

They don't stand out on the NA server. For all I know, ZOS has partitioned them off in the game so it is like they have their own server. It is entirely possible for the megaserver to sort people in zones so they are grouped by language.

There are quite a few Japanese players and guilds. You likely don't realize they are there because they play in the Oceanic time zones.

Exactly this. I know of at least 2 major JP trade guilds, there are probably more. They're around, but they usually play when NA sleeps, same with most of Aus and NZ.

AzraelKrieg

Vapirko wrote: »

There’s a Japan server? How do you access it?

It's not a server, just a client to log them into the NA server. If you really want to play with the text in Japanese, repurchase the game through DMM.

Vapirko

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

Vapirko wrote: »

There’s a Japan server? How do you access it?

It's not a server, just a client to log them into the NA server. If you really want to play with the text in Japanese, repurchase the game through DMM.

I do not lol, but being based in Thailand if there was one I was gonna test it.

MLGProPlayer

Slack wrote: »

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how the Japanese server is doing?
It launched back in 2016, but since then I havent heard much from it.
I imagine a game like this would have a pretty hard time on the Asian market for following reasons: No super-size boobs, boobs not revealed enough, boobs not jiggly enough, gameworld not overly cute and cheesy. Not to forget that female characters look older than 12.

But still I wonder if its even up at all

There are plenty of gamers in Japan who don't have bad taste and who play "western" games. Just like you have plenty of North Americans and Europeans who have bad taste and love the cute, oversexualised "Asian" games. You can't paint everyone with the same brush.

Nyladreas

Half of my friend list is filled with Japanese people and other Asian people. Not sure how you miss them.

Also, to my knowledge, megaservers are zoned. Might be why.

Elsonso

Nyladreas wrote: »

Half of my friend list is filled with Japanese people and other Asian people. Not sure how you miss them.

Also, to my knowledge, megaservers are zoned. Might be why.

Unless they have something in the name that identifies them as Japanese, Asian, Australian, or a New Zealander, or they do something that identifies them, it is hard to tell where they are from. Putting "jp" in the account name is one such identification, but I have not seen that for a while.

The time zone is a large consideration, but I also wonder whether the Japanese partner has an agreement with ZOS to partition the NA megaservers for the Japanese players in order to give them a dedicated, but virtual, Japanese server.

I say this because the PC EU megaserver has a common zone chat with English, French, German, and Russian languages in it. Every time I play there, someone is speaking in zone chat in a language other than English. No matter when I play on PC NA, no one ever speaks in Japanese.

I don't think they are hidden from the rest of the megaserver, but I do think they are separated or partitioned, to some degree.

Of course, maybe they are all playing on Console. I would never see them on XBox, and it would be unlikely on PS4.

ArchMikem

I actually havent noticed any Japanese players on Xbox NA. Chinese bots though oh yeah. I have played with quite a few Aussies though.

But yes ESO is not a title that puts a lot of artistic emphasis into the bewbage.