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[KeaneR]

Also another fun fact is, and there's no hate in that, I am glad you guys are getting your long desired free transfers, but all these arguments about houses, friends, fc's, ping and what not, will all the sudden vanish the moment the free transfers are opening up.

You're being very unreasonable here and making assumptions and generalizations. I for one will not be taking advantage of any free transfer. If the game is unplayable on my current server it will be goodbye for me.

[Tahlaera]

You're being very unreasonable here and making assumptions and generalizations. I for one will not be taking advantage of any free transfer. If the game is unplayable on my current server it will be goodbye for me.

Same goes for most likely me and any of my EU-based friends. I'm not inclined to swapping servers, especially when I've played on NA servers since somewhere in ARR, gotten my own house, have a lot of friends on NA servers, while I know absolutely noone on EU servers anymore. (The ones I knew at first also moved to NA for various reasons, in part some similar to mine)

Also, to be clear, at ARR's beta/release, the 'EU servers' were actually based in NA, meaning it made no difference what-so-fucking-ever until they moved the EU ones sometime later. And on top of that, as someone already pointed out, the 'EU server' designation is terrible as the EU isn't like NA, most countries have their own primary language. With just 'EU' tagging, for example, Moogle ended up being flooded with French players who had among themselves decided that was going to be their server, of whom a good portion subsequently went to quite some effort at the time to make the portion of the server that didn't speak (fluent/primarily/any) French feel unwelcome.

I ended up choosing to go NA side because I didn't feel like more of the above, as well as the lack of difference in any lag at the time(before they moved the EU servers), a good portion of friends from other MMO's and games, and the ability to find RP and the likes.