I had to read the first post multiple times to be sure I didn't misunderstand it.

By doing this “data centers” thing it's clear that most of the adventurers will choose the one closer to them, thus splitting the community.

I'm in Europe and just a while ago I defeated Garuda Hard for my very first time with a group of japanese friends and I was /happy of it. Then I read this...

I play most of the times with japanese adventurers, but I also know several from the Unites States, Europe and elsewhere, so...

This news reminds me of the original server merge idea, where everyone could choose their new server, therefore splitting the community. Then Yoshida-san realized it wasn't the best solution and luckily changed plans.

For A Realm Reborn I was hoping we would still be all together, not being separated by language (let's not be blind, because that's going to be the evident outcome).

Ifrit's Eruptions? The hells of it, I had a blast every time an adventurer blew up cursing the lag, and we would win anyway!

The dev team could create battles not dependant on lag, like the excellent one versus Nael van Darnus, but once again they decide to split the community... because that's what's gonna happen with these regional data centers.

I hope Yoshida-san will have once again the common sense to better think about this decision, like he did in the past with Server Merges...