Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
The latest information from many weeks ago was that they were not planning on doing cross-region right now, due to "differences in values".

Materia has been a good test-bed in this regards with some players coming from NA servers, some coming from JP servers, and a small number from EU servers. I am sure SE have been watching how the two main communities mix on Materia with interest.

If it happens (it's a big if), I wouldn't expect it until after the JP NA and EU DCs are all expanded, so well towards the end of 2023.
They were definitely planning on doing cross-region, otherwise they wouldn't have already designed the system to allow for cross-region travel. However, they're holding back on enabling it because they want to monitor the player's opinions on it.
So it's hardly "a big if" scenario, and much closer to a when scenario.