Please enable data centre travel between regions

[Jojoya]

Relative to Materia they need to do something because 5 servers isn't enough to support game play and makes many duties hard to fill. Japan will have 32 servers soon and Materia has 5 something is wrong there and needs to be addressed. Given many on Materia are from Japan the Japan DC would be a good solution and it's the closest as well.

JP already has 32 servers. All SE is doing is splitting the existing worlds into 4 data centers instead of the current 3.

I agree that Materia is at a disadvantage only having 5 worlds but I don't think they could allow cross-region play for Materia without allowing it for all regions and SE probably wants to be cautious about cross data center travel at first to make certain there are no issues that weren't discovered in testing.

I see a lot of people expressing concern about cultural conflict between the NA/EU and JP populations...I don't think the NA/EU will come all way to play on JP DC, just to suffer from high Ping. I don't see the reason for NA/EU to come and "ruining their way of doing things." as the Japanese worry about. As long as Duty finder only pairs people on the same DC, it shouldn't be a problem.

Most players wouldn't. Most probably won't even travel outside of their current data centers other than a couple of trips for curiosity's sake at first.

But there absolutely will be trolls who delight in stirring things up. And that's going to be just as true of some JP players. There are still the occasional bad seeds there just as much as NA and EU. I suspect that's why SE added in "Each data center will also be judged based on the social customs of that data center's region in the real world." to the Prohibited Activities update last year. They wanted it stated so action could be immediately taken against those using cross region travel to stir up trouble once it's implemented.