Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[littlehobbit13]

People from a whole region can already go to Aether without limitations

"Without limitations"? No retainers, no timed nodes, no FC chat, no FC buffs, no cross-DC tells, no island, etc etc etc. I'm sure you mean "without limitations" as in the travel itself, but let's acknowledge that if you're the one traveling to Aether, you're forced to give up a shit ton of things just for a functional PF. And before it gets thrown out there as a half-assed counter-argument: whether or not you, personally, find those things negligible to your experience doesn't mean everyone else feels the same. Heck, even the people who cite "being able to play with friends" as the entire net positive to overcome those limitations, what about the people whose friends are already co-located? If they have different interests, so one has to go to Aether anyways because they're into raiding, doesn't that mean travel is now hindering you interacting freely with your friends? There are multiple, sometimes conflicting perspectives on this issue.

Crystal is bursting at the seams, with Balmung that's incredibly crowded all the time

The Balmung Quicksand being "bursting at the seams" with ERP doesn't speak for the entirety of Crystal and every game feature.

The issue though will there be groups who want to troll especially in Japan. Hard to say but our cultures are certainly different. I would imagine the Raid community would be the hardest hit with DC travel and although I'm not a raider I've read that methods used in Japan are different than elsewhere. Given the raiding popularity in Japan it would be a major reason for people to DC travel there in my opinion.

When we talk potential culture clash, this is the one that immediately comes to mind for me because it's exactly what we saw with Aether. Aether had the reputation of being "the raiding DC" and so NA raiders rushed on over. JP has this dreamy reputation about being super organized and highly skilled and genius with their strats. A certain demographic of NA raiders will absolutely run over there to try and participate in what they believe is a raiding utopia and it's undoubtedly going to cause problems. It's foolish and naïve to think it won't.