Seriously, VW loot system..come on.

[saevel]

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.

*Cough*
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.

[Afania]

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.

Lol it'd be even harder to find ppl to do stuff with with regional server. You either can't find anyone on NA server when you play, or have entier server full of JPs, who doesn't like to pt with outsiders.

[saevel]

Lol it'd be even harder to find ppl to do stuff with with regional server. You either can't find anyone on NA server when you play, or have entier server full of JPs, who doesn't like to pt with outsiders.

The point of region servers is that you get to choose which region you play in. There are enough English speaking people in the JST / KST region to form a decently functional community. Problem is they are scattered amongst all the servers and thus don't directly interact. Same with the EU players. There are more then enough of those to create a fully functional end game community but because their scattered across all the servers then their interaction becomes limited and fragmented. Current system ends up with only two large player base's, one in JP and the other NA.

On the reverse side, making region servers would create periods of down time and reduce server to player efficiency. The way it is now SE can use about 1/2 the servers they would require due to the JP and NA not sharing peak play times.