Quote Originally Posted by JackDaniels View Post
I have no idea what you're talking about, so I will just smile and nod and go on my merry way. In retrospect though it wouldn't make sense to put so much work into auto-trans if they were planning on segregation. I would prefer segregation, as elexia pointed out it just makes sense. With the reduction of latency and the implementation of a better auto-translation function (which still needs much improvement), playing with Japanese won't be so bad.
Uhmmm let me clarify.
Yoshi said they aren't changing the realms (balmung will stay balmung, masamune will stay masamune, etc).
So if the realms will be the same, and your client will connect to a data server that's closest to you, it just means that your character will be handled by that server, but they all get pooled together. So nothing changes, just that you get no latency.