Quote Originally Posted by CosmicKirby View Post
Sure some people who are really good friends/connections will keep in contact via other means. But your primary shared interest becomes greatly more difficult to share if you're not on the same server, it's a logical progression that it would be harder to maintain that relationship with the addition of a strain.
But, from what I'm hearing, in Stormblood we're getting cross-realm (so datacentre wide) friends lists (though don't take me for gospel on that, it's interpretation from what I've been reading on the forums). It won't help if the designated servers for NA are on the other NA datacentre (the one w/o Balmung + Gila I always forget the names), but for EU that'll help immensely as we'll still be on the Chaos datacentre (since they're not adding a new EU datacentre, even though I think it may be needed, they're just adding new realms). However we're discussing Balmung and Gilga here so my Chaos datacentre information isn't really productive. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what designated NA realms are. If they're the DC with B/G, and we get cross-realm FL, then it becomes a good chunk easier. If they're the other one, then your point will still stand in its entirity. Even with the cross-realm FL and the desig servers on the same DC as B/G there will be some challenges, but they'll be somewhat mitigated by that FL.

And I'm sorry that's an incoherent wall of text. I woke up about 20 minutes ago and haven't eaten. My brain can't English properly right now.