Seriously, VW loot system..come on.

[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.