Quote Originally Posted by Shioban View Post
The server restriction is there for you.

During the A/phaBeta, we had horrific lag when unprecedented numbers swarmed the servers, so to combat this the development team added in this gate on launch to avoid the server grinding to a hault.
Nah you can't really use this as a defense because SE's first MMO FFXI had a means of bypassing this, they had the world pass, that allowed players on closed servers to invite friends to play on their server.

They could easily bypass this limitation if they offered something like that yet they haven't and when they did introduce this friend recruitment concept they should of seriously considered offering this since it really does hinder certain people from inviting their friends to play.