Seriously, why is it only north americans ask for region specific servers?
I repeat: you guys aren't the only ones playing the mmorpg. We all suffer certain delay.
The servers are in japan, the game is japanese, it seems neutral enough for everyone to have it balanced. If everyone suffers the same delay, then it isn't an issue. Well, yes it'd be against japanese players but ... seriously, everything in XIV is instanced or has mad respawn rate. I see this as a non issue.
Whats annoying about XIV is all the checks the client-server does. Once they get rid of those in 2.0 it'll be at least as good as XI (I hope).