Quote Originally Posted by Colino View Post
I have NA friends and EU friends. There is no way I could possibly ever convince them to play on the same server as mine if it ends up being a JP world. Not only that but I would expect non JP population to fall drastically, meaning you are effectively segregating communities that have already been together for 2 years now.
If you can't convince people to stay on the server you're on just because it's Japanese, that kind of just says that they would rather be on a regional server to begin with.

And no, "make new friends" is not an option. Sorry if I actually care about the people I play this game with.
Woah woah woah, I never even said to resort to that. Most of my Linkshell is EU, so if they decide to stick to their EU servers then I'd probably head over that way as well. Though they'll probably stick to our current server.

That isn't my point though. My point is that people wanted better latency, and now that we're getting that they don't want it because of the unique international community? Were they expecting server hops to disappear and that everyone in Australia or France would have the same latency as someone from Japan on Japanese servers all while on the same world?