Quote Originally Posted by Onidemon View Post
Why is that??
Because a huge reason for me to play are the people I play with. I want to meet people from all over the world. Thanks to Square Enix I, who live in Switzerland, have real life friends in the UK, Germany, Thailand, Israel, Florida, California, New York, Oregon. And with "real life" I actually mean real life, like knowing and visiting those outside of the game, too. For example, we had linkshell meetings in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (2 times), Florida, and now California in 3 weeks with several people attending several or even all of them. This year alone I had two visitors from different countries and continents at my place and I may be visiting someone in Bangkok next November. SE practices globalization in its purest form, and I sincerely hope they will never stop with it and allow me to happily see people of different cultures and countries from all around the world playing together for another decade. And I'll continue to avoid those tons of other MMORPGs which are regional and PC only - I'll leave those to the people who think that the world ends a few miles east of NYC.

Most MMO have regional server and most of the time they are localized servers too which makes it for smoother gameplay.
That's a myth. We're not in the 90s anymore, differences in global round trip times are a matter of a few tens of milliseconds maximum.