i find it kinda funny that everyone was basically soiling their pants when the server merge came with the original method of "ok brand new servers, everyone can choose where to go"
screams of "oh noes community's and friends ripped apart" (even thou everyone could choose freely)
it was the biggest shitstorm we had on the forum so far and that says something

and now we have this thread and suddenly it is A-OK to do the same thing as long as it gives people the illusion they will suddenly play like gods just because of some milliseconds...
FFXIV is not a "spam skills every second till your fingers bleed MMO", with the improved client and server structure im sure it wont matter at all

i really don't understand all this hype about latency and milliseconds, i can do any endgame just fine and im from Europe...
if you always get hit by ifrits cracks now, that wont really change on a regional server
just my 2 cents here