My ls operates across 2 time zones EU and NA.

It is a simple fact people will come and go from linkshell due to both ingame and real life reasons so you will always have to recruit.

Unless SE makes dedicated "World" servers it will segregate everyone.

MY linkshell will go to NA, unfortunately it will screw over every Eu player in it. while things will be fine at launch with out a Eu base to rep people over time in 4-6 months down the road I will potentially have to close out the Eu division of my ls due to lack of new Eu players on a NA server after 2.0s launch.

I will also have to break it to my members that events now will no longer start at noon and last to midnight... I will have to tell them to not even bother logging on before 6-7pm est because chances are no one will be there or at least not reliably. The Eu who joined me will be forced to only use the cross world noobfinder, degrading that part of my linkshell more or less to nothing but a horrible social chat channel and nothing else.

This is the stupidest move SE has ever made not having world servers anymore... The it is your choice is not a choice at all. If the majority of NA join a NA server, the majority of Eu join Eu, and the majority of Jp join Jp, the person not following is a fool, because it will ruin their own play experience in the end.

We are trading
1) Better Economy
2) 24/7 ability to group without failfinder
3) Ability to create a multi divisional group
4) reduced risk of a region dying due to lack of say NA/Eu players down the road.

All this for a fraction of a second better lag. Which only benefits PvP........ (Ifrit issues are only partially caused by the latency between servers before that is used as a counter argument)

This is one of the stupidest moves SE has ever made, they are removing one of the elements which made the FF mmos superior to the rest. SE has now official killed the global community with this "Forced" segregation of servers. Many people will be forced to part with their friends, linkshells will be destroyed, all for a near pointless 0.2sec improvement in latency, XIV is not an action mmo 0 latency means nothing.

I have no issues with regional servers but SE must make global servers... emphasis on the must.