{"id":14898,"date":"2022-08-12T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2022-08-12T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T10:32:27","slug":"20220812-14898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220812-14898\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower of Fantasy players thought \u201cJP Fuc Test Server\u201d was an insult, prompting devs to explain its meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Level Infinite has released the free-to-play open world RPG <em><strong>Tower of Fantasy<\/strong><\/em> worldwide. However, the game had been plagued by issues related to queuing, disconnections, and inability to login at launch due to the influx of players. Level Infinite apologized for the situation and announced that it will be distributing items to players as compensation. The company also provided an explanation regarding the name of the \u201c<strong>JP Fuc Test Server<\/strong>\u201d that a portion of the Japanese playerbase took as an insult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Players of the game choose one of the multiple servers that exist in each region and create their own original character. There are over 20 servers in the Asia region alone, and all suffered from considerable login waiting times. The situation was similar in other regions, too. As of the time this article was written, the congestion problems seem to have been somewhat alleviated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear Wanderers, we have observed and fixed issues since the official launch. We sincerely apologize to Wanderers for the negative experience. You can find the compensation plan and more updated details in the letter below:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hyJp1QB4Ac\">https:\/\/t.co\/hyJp1QB4Ac<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TowerofFantasy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TowerofFantasy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ToF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ToF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HAFv3nrqV4\">pic.twitter.com\/HAFv3nrqV4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tower of Fantasy (@ToF_EN_Official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToF_EN_Official\/status\/1557635779765350400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The above tweet includes both the apology and explanation regarding compensation, but there was a different issue that provoked criticism from some Japanese players. At one point, a server with the name \u201cJP Fuc Test Server\u201d suddenly appeared in the game\u2019s server list. Some players speculated that \u201cFuc\u201d referred to the English profanity \u201cFuck\u201d and that the intended meaning of the name was \u201cFuck Japan.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Level Infinite released an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToF_JP\/status\/1557659731929759744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explanation<\/a> about the name on Twitter. It clarified that \u201cFuc Test Server\u201d is an abbreviation of \u201cFunctional Upgrade Check Test Server\u201d and that such servers existed in regions other than Japan, like the NA Fuc Test Server and the EU Fuc Test Server. In other words, they claim that there was never any intention to disparage a particular region; the abbreviation that was used just happened to be similar to an English curse word. The appearance of the test server in the public list was a result of an error that occurred while the development team was attempting to deal with server problems.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220812-214143-002-747x420.jpg 747w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toweroffantasy-global.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tower of Fantasy<\/a><\/em> is available as a free-to-play title &nbsp;on PC, iOS, and Android.<br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by. Marco Farinaccia based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220812-214143\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-08-12 10:59<\/em> <em>JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tower of Fantasy official Twitter account provided an explanation regarding the name of the &#8220;JP Fuc Test Server&#8221; that a portion of the Japanese playerbase took as an insult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-14898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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