I’ve come to realise that materia needs help

[VelKallor]

Jojoya, please see my earlier post. What we want or suggest may not be reflected in what is technically possible. As stated earlier, cross region travel may have been delayed for good reason. Data or character loss in transit may have occurred during testing. Consider also what errors or issues could occur with high volume traffic in both directions.

Until we get more information, we will need to wait.

[Jojoya]

Jojoya, please see my earlier post. What we want or suggest may not be reflected in what is technically possible. As stated earlier, cross region travel may have been delayed for good reason. Data or character loss in transit may have occurred during testing. Consider also what errors or issues could occur with high volume traffic in both directions.

Until we get more information, we will need to wait.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...8a3986554a2#03

As I previously mentioned in a Live Letter, while the system has been designed to allow cross-region travel, we'll be limiting it to travel between logical data centers within a physical data center at first due in part to differences in game economy and values. We’ll be paying keen attention to the opinions of players as we consider whether or not to introduce cross-region travel in the future.

This doesn't make it sound like they were still trying to work out technical issues. This sounds like they've held it back because they are uncertain of the economic and social effects. If it truly was a technical issue, there would be no reason not to say so. They've given us that as the outright reason for many other things we've expected to get over the years.

He said they're monitoring player feedback. I've seen very little pushback against enabling cross region travel in the EN community. We've got the new concerns about players congregating on a single data center for PF but that's a situation of the cat already being let out of the bag. Allowing cross region travel between Materia and other regions isn't going to make that worse.

If there are concerns about what might happen if NA and EU could travel between each other, they should at least pair Materia up with one other region whether that is EU or NA. JP's apparent xenophobia (assuming that hasn't been greatly exaggerated) leaves them out of the picture. Players that have friends on JP can still create characters there to play with them.

[DixieBellOCE]

This sounds like they've held it back because they are uncertain of the economic and social effects.

This is the exact reason why cross-region isn't out.

The Japanese playerbase went into an uproar when they found out that more foreigners could come to their servers and potentially cause issues.
I don't blame them in the slightest either, Raiding on NA was a nightmare compared to the social etiquette that the JP community has built.

[VelKallor]

This doesn't make it sound like they were still trying to work out technical issues. This sounds like they've held it back because they are uncertain of the economic and social effects. If it truly was a technical issue, there would be no reason not to say so. They've given us that as the outright reason for many other things we've expected to get over the years.

I said "may" Jojoya, I am just highlighting the fact we dont know what is going on behind the scenes.