Limited Data Travel System

[Illmaeran]

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What do y'all think about this?

Feels like SE is protecting the JP server markets from being raided by the gaijins.

Or is this reading too much into it?

You're reading too much into it. There's a difference in economies between servers on the same data center too. For example, Atomos' economy isn't as robust as others such as Tonberry so we see people coming to Atomos to buy but selling elsewhere. While that does benefit people on Atomos to a degree, the differences in the economies haven't equilibrated. If they opened up access to all servers to anyone around the world the various servers' economies would go bonkers and not settle down for a long time, if ever.

Opening up all JP servers to people on JP data centers and the same for NA and EU is reasonable. SE needs to be careful to maintain general parity in Relative Wealth across servers and regions.

You can be sure that SE NA/Europe are paying close attention to the economies in those regions and that information will influence the decision to open up cross-region travel or not.

I mean, I don't really want to play with Americans either.

To be completely frank, after getting fed up with the way Western/NA MMO communities behaved, I intentionally rolled on a JP server to avoid it. I don't want that BS making its way to the place I went to get away from it.

[Canadane]

"values" can mean more than just money/gil.
Honestly it's probably for the best.

[Caurcas]

I mean, I don't really want to play with Americans either.

Aw, but we want to play with you. Spread our culture about.

[CatboySweatlord]

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What do y'all think about this?

Feels like SE is protecting the JP server markets from being raided by the gaijins.

Or is this reading too much into it?

Good lmao, how it should be, NA Market is the wild west

[Vonleo]

I see no problem in this.

[Lauront]

Yoshi will 100% not let other regions onto the jp servers. They want their isolated group. They do not want to deal with filthy gaijin.

Same, can't see it happening or, if it were to, being well received.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Same, can't see it happening or, if it were to, being well received.

Got news for you.

You can make a new character on JP servers as is.

[Puremallace]

Not sure about that but it was made pretty clear to prevent culture clashes. To me it further solidifies the actual audience of FF14 is the JP one with the rest of just being financial contributors. Saw Korean developers make similar statements constantly about their MMO's and the message is very clear to NA and EU players.

[Quintessa]

Then there's Tonberry which is basically the English speaking JP server where both play.

[Ayche]

Surely the economic question could be solved by switching on Free Trial restrictions on anyone doing cross-region travel.