Materia DC and DC travel.

[DixieBellOCE]

To be frank, I'm not sure if the same situation wouldn't have occured if SE has set up SEA servers instead of Oceania.

Most English speaking players in Elemental have their roots there and it would be hard to convince the majority of them to give up their friends/community to move servers even if they are set up in SEA instead of Oceania.

Imo, Oceania on the whole is just poorly planned and unfortunately the Oce community had to suffer as a result.

This is the other sad reality, some people have been on JP for just under 9 years at the launch of Materia.
its hard to move away from friends after that long.

The only other option was moving Tonberry and Kujata to the new DC, but that would have sparked outrage from the SEA and JP playerbase on those servers.