Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Soukyuu]

First of all, I highly doubt people will even miss the various regional communities, because of the time zone that already SEGREGATES the masses.

Generalization = bad. There are people who play at off hours due to night shifts or travelling around the world. And playing with those communities is not the only need for them, think of all the potential buying power you're losing, for example

Secondly, most players here can't even communicate effectively in another language other than their own, so the whining and complaining is really silly.

Actually, I believe the majority of users on the English forums are not native English speakers. The reason why other language forums are less active is not because there are less non-English players but because many just use the English ones instead.

Thirdly, the game is undergoing a lot of change, so you cannot simply just take your current experience and translate it out looking forward to 2.0. If the game will introduce PvP where split-second timing is going to be critical, then you're going to regret not being able to choose a data center closer to where you live.

Generalization again. Not everyone cares about PvP.

Finally, SE is still allowing you a choice. Stop whining. Most MMO games pre-segregate you and some won't even allow you to register an account in another region due to IP blocking. Be glad you're getting anything at all.

We're not "getting" anything. We're losing our global server community for a low decrease of latency (Low, because Yoshida said it himself, connecting to Japan from Germany was very responsive and smooth).
But that doesn't seem to be an issue to you, since you seem too be concerned about being good at a game instead of playing it for fun.

Pretty much, even as someone that can communicate effectively in Japanese I couldn't give two shits about playing with them, even more so given the fact the majority of them don't want to play with us.

If the majority cares about me not being of the same origin as them, then that majority can go to hell. Doesn't matter, which country's majority we're talking about here.

I have few friends, but they are from all over the world, and yes, I even met some of them irl. I'll just stick with the minority.

Even if you look past the upcoming segregation, global servers was something unique to FFMMOs, now they're killing one of their unique features while making the game more "standard". Which is not necessarily a bad thing in some areas, but what you have to ask yourself is, why would someone choose ffxiv which has a bad reputation if you can choose a game x that has the same features/gameplay which has a clean reputation? Being too unique is bad, but being standard is worse.