Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
People always make new friends, they just happen to not all be from one region.
Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
Since you clearly don't value friendship as much as other people do, it's understandable why you use the term "freak out", when it's perfectly reasonable to be upset people will be separated from friends they care about.

But there's nothing wrong with having friends only from one region.

When I joined WoW I chose a PST server in hopes that I'd find the most people playing in my time-frame and maybe even find some people who were semi-local (and I've done both quite readily). Are there people from other timezones? Sure, of course.. but I didn't join the server to run raids at 3pm while I'm at work because it's 7pm on the East Coast for others, I joined to get the best chance to find people in my timeframe.

In the case of FFXIV , it's both time-frame and countries and language.. and once people start talking about countries and language, people start throwing around the term "racist" like children who think they know what they're talking about.

Wanting to be with people who are in a similar region as you, even if it means you have less contact with people outside of that region, is not a bad thing. People need to get over it.

If you have friends that you consider "close" outside of your region then why don't you extend that friendship over other social media and enjoy portions of real life with them, rather than just a game. In the long run, you're going to make new friends and be just as bloody happy if you allow yourself to be happy (which many people seem unwilling to do) on a server that is based on the datacenter closest to you.

If people would stop whining about it, they'd see there's nothing wrong with the way this is going down.