When do you think they'll add cross-region data center travel? OCE is screwed!

[RobynDaBank]

But if people go to other DCs for fulfilling their endgame party needs, what incentive will there be for them to keep any foundation in their home DC?

[Zebraoracle]

Gosh I just love the delusion of "NA is the only region full of problematic players", as if trolls and toxic individuals don't exist freaking everywhere (yes, even JP).

But if people go to other DCs for fulfilling their endgame party needs, what incentive will there be for them to keep any foundation in their home DC?

...Who cares? Servers barely mean anything as it is - they just tie you to where your character is based for stuff like retainers, housing, and FC.

Meanwhile, some of us want to play with friends on other regions for things not related to endgame party needs, and to me that's far more important than the illusion of "foundation in their home DC". The focus should be getting people who want to have fun with other people to the place where they CAN do that, because the game is about FUN.

[Tigerlilley]

But if people go to other DCs for fulfilling their endgame party needs, what incentive will there be for them to keep any foundation in their home DC?

A ton of OCE players havent gone anywhere near the OCE servers because they A) can't play with the raid groups they're in already (or FC groups) or B) have heard the queues are abysmal. It would encourage people to join and stay on OCE if people knew they could still play the game if queues were slow. People joining/staying = population growth. Population growth, shorter queues = less reason to leave.

Lets be honest, you know you can go to another server for a slightly cheaper item on the market board but how often have you thought...nah, I'll just buy here, can't be bothered going if I don't have to. Same thing.

Everyone's assuming that NA would flood the gates of JP and destroy them...

Remember when they opened cross-datacentre and all the role players on Brynhildr were raging about the same thing. "Toxic people will RUIN our space". All that happened is that people went to have a look for a few days and then went home.