I used to play FFXI before it came to PS2 in America. It was nice, calm, and peacefull before then. Everyone was polite and helpfull. Not even a week after it came out on PS2 in America I started hearing things like " HAHA I PWN J00 N00B!!!!111". After that the game went downhill. Even though there were alot more people playing, which should have increased the flow of items and caused the prices to drop, prices instead skyrocketed because people in Amercia seem to be massively greedy. Also, the majority of new American players pushed out alot of old players which caused the bulk of the population to become rude, iggnorant, whiney children..... This seems to be the case with most online games I have played. American players in general seem to pretty much kill the mood of any game there are on. There are exceptions however, and it is nice to meet thoese that are above that type of behavior.