Are there any foreign players in the game you are playing? How many? We interviewed some players, a majority of players like foreigners while playing.

Are there any foreign players in the MMO game you´re now playing, and do you know their nationality?

Ryobu: LOL, the funny thing is that I´ve recently quit the vast variety of MMO´s that I used to be very involved with. From what I recall, I used to be very familiar with my good friends on RO, Hero Online and possibly even AuditionSea. I´ve played with, Australians, Phillipino´s, Chinese (mainland and Hong Kong), Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Singaporean, of course Americans, British, even German, Deutch, Russian, Italians and even Mexicans. The only games I play these days are Sword of the New World and FFXI. I only have friends in the latter, but they are all Canadian and American.

Lainey: I´m playing Korea Audition, so I suppose I am the foreigner.

Do you like foreign players around you?

Ryobu: I enjoy the company of foreign players as they are quite different from myself.  They play differently and act differently towards eachother. I kind of find it cute when they huddle up in small groups to chat in their own language. Its fun to watch and at times I like to interrupt them and figure out what they are talking about. Of course I do find it somewhat annoying when that small group becomes the population of towns and then I become the foreignor.

Lainey: Yes I don´t mind it at all. Online games are meant to stretch out to everyone, not just, say North America only. The internet is a global communication network.

Are you familiar with them, what topic do you often talk about?

Ryobu: Usually we just talk about language. They teach me some basic conversational words like, yes, no, hi, how are you, etc. In english though, we just talk about anything any regular player would talk about, stats, strategies, weapons, hunts, etc.

Lainey: I´ve made a few Korean friends who speak English pretty well, and those who can only say basics. I usually try to keep on topic of the game for those who don´t understand English too well, and chat fluently with those who can.

Do you think there is a gap between local players and foreign players?

Ryobu: Well it really depends on the population of the game.  There are alot of players who hate foreignors and stay away from them or harass them, but there are also plenty of other players who just treat foreignors as normal players.  It is kind of understandable that foreign players group together on servers that are foreign to them, I would do the same. So I?d have to agree that there is a noticeable gap between local players and foreign players.

Lainey: Well yes of course there is a language barrier. But it depends on the game. Most foreigners usually stay close together.

Will you go to an overseas game server and experience being a foreign player?

Ryobu: Well, I´ve played AuditionSea and that kind of puts me in the seat of being a foreignor. I guess not really since majority of the people there speak english though. I´ve tried playing SUN on the Chinese server and that felt extremely awkward since I never made any friends.  Of course Daimon helped me out a bit, but I never saw him in game T_T  I really can´t play foreign games alone, it gets extremely lonely and I have no clue what others are saying to me.  For all I know they could be swearing at me and all I can respond with are emotes. Unless a group of friends really want to try out a foreign game, I doubt I´ll be playing any.

Lainey: Haha, first point I made I said that I currently do, and have done so in the past.

According to the interview, Some like foreign players around them and even wanna try to playing in a overseas game server for a sepecial experience. What about you?

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