Captcha Encyclopedia! Look here first!

[yunamon]

Learn the ways of the Japanese Force, Ruke!

[Syklo]

Learn the ways of the Japanese Force, Ruke!

ダースヴェーダ

[Raymee]

ダースヴェーダ

ほおおおおおおおおおおぱああーほおおおおおおおおおおおぱああー

[Mystil]

Bookmarked.

[Magus_84]

I think the problem a lot of people have with the captchas is the distortion on some of the characters. A lot of times, it may actually be one character, but be so distorted that you can't make a definitive match.

The katakana captcha was a bit easier with that, since the characters had less fine detail to them. Which, of course, is probably why they changed it.

[Seany1990]

These threads have been done before and they too get ignored.

[The Walrus]

We must do everything we can to get this stickied :I

[Sayara]

Friendlier title check.
Sticky check.

[Seany1990]

Well this a good start, there will still be 5+ threads per day still.

[Kirine]

I noticed that people who play pso2 and has bought AC have mastered hiragana sooner or later. Whether it is intentional or not, it clicks in so easily.

I have met many people who could not recognize what:

はみるろく

means when they first started out, but after one month of playing, they take a look at it and go:

ha, mi, ru, ro, ku

as if it was the most natural thing on Earth.

Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone. There are some who can play this game for a year and not learn hiragana, but there's a lot of people who pick it up and can recognize the characters, even if they cannot speak the language or type japanese well.