Quote Originally Posted by Tigerlilley View Post
And you're right to do so. Everyone pays a subscription to play the game. If you can't play the game, what are you paying for? I think SE really needed to step in with promotion or regional travel or just -something- so much earlier but they haven't. It's disappointing but it's no ones responsibility to keep Materia alive. If SE don't care then why should we?
Just do what's right for you. Enjoy the game
I've been told by others that SE had been heavily promoting the game with the new OCE data center in that part of the world so that's not part of the problem. If OCE players aren't picking up the game, then the OCE Facebook group that had been lobbying for the OCE data center overestimated the importance of a local data center to those not playing the game.

They aren't going to force players to play on a specific world so that we can rule out as any sort of solution (even if a bad one).

If cross region data center travel has already been tested on their internal services and works as they say, then it needs to be enabled. If the JP player base hates the idea that much, then leave them out of it and allow it for NA, EU, and OCE. That would probably pull OCE and SEA player back out of the JP worlds to Materia where they'd then have more options.

If the JP player base wants to be isolated, that's their choice. No reason for the rest of the player base that isn't looking to be isolated to have to be so.