Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
I think its really telling how some people in this thread really express the idea that an MMO community should be limiting rather than be expanding. Its as if they're not confident in their own little communities somehow

You know what's ruining this game? Too many servers. Again there's a tech reason due to this game's server infrastructure but imagine if they worked on them. No more need to DC travel to get to certain groups or have better queues for content, you can also interact and hang out with other people from other parts of the world and make the auto-translate feature that so many people have forgotten actually useful.

This is the ideal in a <ahem> A MASSIVELY MULTIPLAER ONLINE ROLE PLAYING GAME.
It's probably because the expansions are harming other aspects of the game in an attempt to progressively expand. People are deliberately willing to ignore possible consequences of such features because on the surface it sounds like a reasonably good idea to them. Cross DC visit for example has helped certain communities grow while it has completely eliminated other communities. For any sort of expansion to the system to work, we need other changes, so we don't have another "Everyone goes to Aether" situation repeating itself. These are all ideas that sound good on paper but actually tend to come with unforeseen consequences that nobody expected to happen. For some of us, DC visits have actually caused there to be less socializing, not more. Also let's be honest, the auto-translate feature isn't going to prevent language barrier issues. JP already has "Must speak Japanese" or "Must speak English" issues in their own PF and this is before region visit exists. The auto-translate feature isn't going to help anyone have an engaging conversation or discuss strats in PF either. It's a cute little thing that's good for simple greetings, and people already don't like talking in dungeons. DC region visits could also make it harder for people to find statics due to some job roles being more congested than others. It'd be nice if people started thinking more what could possibly go wrong instead of, "It'd be nice to hang out with that friend from overseas".