Quote Originally Posted by Loony_BoB View Post
I can't stress just how annoyed I am about this. I have friends in Australia and North America who bought the game in the past month or two so they could play it with me after I convinced them for months and months. And now they're being segregated, along with the other people from the states (Hawaii included), Brazil, Canada, Australia that are already in my LS. This is literally tearing up a family we have built up amongst each other and I'm gutted. I also have been told by many others that they were going to buy once 2.0 is out and play with me, and that's not going to happen now, either. I'm just plain gutted. None of them will pick an EU server for the very obvious reason and it's not lag. It's the fact that it will never really be busy during their time's peak hours. They will not be able to put together parties when we're all asleep or working! Arrrrgh. So damned annoyed. Why, SE? Why? My poor friends, my e-family!
For the last time no one, I repeat NO ONE is getting segregated, period. Our old servers will exist the same as always, one server might have its data center no longer based in Japan and that's it. Did you people throw this type of tantrum when Ragnarok went live, did you throw this type of tantrum when new servers went live and some friends decided to transfer to it in FFXI? This is the worst that is going to happen, people are not forced to become segregated, they will choose it of their own free will if they decide community vs lag. This would have happened anyways when more language and region preferred servers went live (Which we have known for more then a year there would be), instead we get a bonus! now not every NA and EU needs to be second best lag vs Japanese players, they have a choice when they didn't have one before, stop being so selfish about this people would have left anyways for the language specific servers when they went live anyways. If people are happy in their community, they will stay, those that aren't will move and there isn't anything you or I can do about it other then make server transfers impossible, never opening new servers and never merging servers.