Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Alhanelem]

if you enjoy your international server (with latency) : stay on this server? no?
Yoshida team give us choise

God why can't people read.

YOU ALREADY HAVE THIS CHOICE. THE SERVERS ARE NOT LOCKED, YOU CAN STILL CHOOSE ANY OF THEM.

Your friends have friends, that also have friends who also have friends, it isn't Rocket surgery.
Everyone has to now make the decision of who to go with and who to leave behind.

I already covered this, so please stop flaming me.

Even if there were no region servers, this would still happen whenever new servers added, or servers merge. Some people will choose to leave. Friends-of-friends-of-friends may become seperated, regardless of if we have regions or not. Fortunately for you, you can still communicate with those people by making another character on their server.