How are you going to keep friendships in game when the people you get grouped with are cross servers. Correct me if i am wrong but they did say it would be cross server no? And let me ask you have you done dungeon finder in WoW recently? People rarely talk in them let alone everyone is from a different server. Most of my parties i have been in FFXIV have been in the open world. I don't even recall joining a party formed with in city walls.