Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[Abriael]

I too hope that the barriers between data centers fall completely. We're in 2024 and we live in a globalized world. It's absolutely nonsensical to keep players segregated by region.

Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 had no such issue, and their communities absolutely benefited from it. I was there for both since the very start and I can testify to that. As a matter of fact, they both had better communities than FFXIV post-2.0.

Cultural differences should be embraced, not shunned. They're an added value and not a liability.

As for the differences in economy, that's absolutely irrelevant. There are plenty of differences in economy between data centers of the same region, and even between servers of the same data center. That did not discourage them from opening world travel and then data center travel, making that objection to cross-region travel simply an excuse.

That's even more obvious when they open the Oceanian data center to everyone, and that's the one with the biggest difference since it's the newest.

Back in 2019, I interviewed Yoshi-P, and he drew this.



It's exactly what you think it is, as an illustration of what he told me, that the ultimate goal was to remove all barriers between regions.

I hope we still get that, because in 2024 these barriers make absolutely zero sense.