The reason is not obscure. The gate is a checkpoint between the normal area and the area where you get automatic teleport to the ferry as soon as the ferry arrive.
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Except that it's the same area since you can see players beyond the gate and in any normal game with a normal engine you just add a player to the list of players to be transported instead of defining a set area from where players are teleported away. But it's SE we're talking about here, they have to do everything in the most convoluted way possible just for the sake of being different. Which is, as I said, obscure.
Two posts today so I'll do the more important one now and less important one after I finish reading through/replying all my office e-mails.
Siho asked if it's possible to make the materia's with same stats stack - I know NA side asked this same questions and here's Foxclon's response to it.
I never get paid in Trident Layers ..... :(
Agreed, they should pay him for the translations. But I nearly choked, thats the more important one, about materia stacking? WOW ok.
I have so much materia clogging up my inv...