Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
This is extremly upsetting, many of my friends picked to play FFXI and XIV by extension because they were one of the only games where you could play with people around the world with ease.

Now I'm forced to segregate myself from my friends in other regions wether I care about lag or not, I have friends in NA, EU, JP, all around the world. It's a dark day for me at least.

Whoopie for people who care about .3seconds of lag.
You can still play with them, just join the server they're on. No one is forcing anyone to switch server, if lag is no issue for you or your friends then stay on the server your on now. If your friends want to switch to a server located in their region then that's their choice. You can either follow them or not. This is no different than allowing players to switch to Ragnarok when it came out, now we just have the choice to pick a server located in our region if we suffer from lag on the japanese server and find it annoying.