Quote Originally Posted by Grimmel View Post
I'm sure I'm not the only one with concerns over this issue. As it stands it is extremely difficult for newer players to play with their friends by starting out on the same server as them.
You do not know how real world cities work huh?
People naturally converge to population centers to due social, economical and communal benefits. Big cities have more jobs, more manpower, more money, more opportunities, more activity etc etc. FFXIV is highly social MMO requiring community participation to achieve anything meaningful so your idea would completely rob the people who come after of the benefits that people like yourself reaped initially.

A better way to fix this would be to merge the small servers together so they can cobble some kind of community together. Unfortunately, SE's own housing system is what denied them of this simple fix.