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[Alhanelem]

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.

This person's stance does not mean he doesn't value friendship. There are different levels of friendship though. Friendships that extend outside of the game, and aquaintences that you play with in the game but don't really contact outside of it. I have close friends, that I will stick with, and aquaintences that I might become seperated from, but it will be on good terms. If I should desire to talk to them in the future, I can create a character on their server. Ideally, there will be a game-wide friends list so I can still chat with people on different servers.

These kinds of problems are not caused directly by regional servers, and are a consequence of any server change, such as adding new servers and merging old ones. Whenever either of these events happen, there will be some seperations- and these kinds of situations are unavoidable. If new servers are added, some friends-of-friends-of-friends may take different paths. When servers merge, the same thing can happen. These things are unavoidable because the population will grow and shrink over time. Regional servers may bring about this change at an unexpected time, but a similar situation would eventually happen regardless of if they did it or not. It's something you have to accept or not play the game.