Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
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.
It's easy to say economic differences don't matter when you compare within the region, there's never been a massive difference in economy between DCs in a region.

The problem is that prices on JP are about 5 times cheaper than NA/EU, opening the gates without addressing that issue would allow NA/EU players to buy out the JP market to make profit on their home world, which makes the game worse for players on JP while bringing zero benefit to them.

Like it or not, that has to be addressed before cross region can be implemented.