>NA aether grp 3 gets world first FT
>jp cleared tower with 30 phantom samurai stacking rogue jobstone mug & nin dokimura with battle high zeniage spam in 2 mins

>be eu
>join NA ABBA discord
>like 10 channels with 50+ people in each call just blasting FT
>automated queue system to invite people through discord with bots that organize afkers and give priority to people, also autosorts roles
>raidplans with vods embedded for every boss with sync'd strategies across worlds/DCs
>all you have to do is join the discord, setup pings and jump in


>join EU discords (savage slimes/lfg/open late) etc
>every single one has some sort of bot
>forced to link your lodestone to verify and get access
>all dead with zero activity anyway
>AFTER you join the discord you still have to direct message a run leader and beg for a spot and present your asshole for review to some annoying eu tranny gatekeeper
>everything is european, balkanized, language barriers etc, esl as fuck

>noone is ever in voice
>strat channels are a mess of giant dead google doc urls
>grim
>login to the actual game
>zone into an instance
>people are just arguing in shout chat like retards over bullshit
>basically like a reddit reply chain dogpile if you say anything, so noone even bothers
>I laughed and asked why everyone was so mad
>I have a JP alias
>"Jp name, opinion discarded" (someone actually said this while playing final fantasy fourteen to me)
>one random is trying to get 16 people into the tower for no reason just to derank to 19 and waste everyones time / not even zone in

shit region
ive basically wasted 4 years playing here, you cant have fun in EU, if you arent in some hyper clique NEET who has to farm 13 hrs on day one, its basically fucking over and you will never clear anything difficult with any amount of socializing/organization, and even then, its all gatekept by the most annoying gay anal control freaks. just let me in to the tower.