Quote Originally Posted by Mahoro View Post
No, but at the same time I am not decrying the existence of LS-sized events because of the time zone in which I live. I understand and sympathize with Runespider's problem. I am assuming she lives in an EU time zone, and it has always been difficult to get the right group when the majority of players live in PST/EST/JP time zones. We have a few EU members in our own EST-based LS. At the same time, however, no MMO designs its events with the mindset that "oh we can't have X event because the EU players won't be able to get groups for it." If I willingly played a Korean MMO and knew the majority of its players were 12 hours ahead of me, I would not fault the game's designers for making a large-scale event not tailored to my time zone.

Ultimately, if the desire to do a particular event is there, there is the hope that EU players can find like-minded individuals via /sh or forming their own LS's. Otherwise, like Rune said, they can choose to join an NA LS, forgo the content entirely, or perhaps do the new content on weekends when work/school schedules are less restrictive.
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Considering I live in Korea and yet do not speak Japanese (KST and JST are both GMT+9) then I'm rather limited to EU / NA shells. NA shells usually run in EST/PST evening times, which happen to be exactly when I'm at work, thus their pretty much a no-go unless on weekends. EU shells usually do events at 3~4AM my time and finish prior to me needing to go to work. I am thus forced to make a choice, I either don't play FFXI or I go to sleep at 9~10PM and wake up at 3:30am. I'll let people work out which one I chose.

SE did not create region servers for FFXI instead favoring a mixed environment. Due to this you are forced to make sacrifices if you want to play and you live in a non-optimal time zone. Part of me really wish's SE would designate certain servers for different regions, but that has it's own drawbacks.