Regional Segregation

[Kiote]

The servers are not becoming Region specific.. They are placing servers in different parts of the world so people who are Obsessed with minimizing latency will stfu. The server you pick will have very little if any impact on your game play. Populations will probably not change all that dramatically.

[viion]

The servers are not becoming Region specific.. They are placing servers in different parts of the world so people who are Obsessed with minimizing latency will stfu. The server you pick will have very little if any impact on your game play. Populations will probably not change all that dramatically.

It doesnt matter if the server is labelled regional, the fact that X server is for US and Y Server is for JP will mean more US will go to X and more JP will go to Y.

Players will create the segregation because it makes sense to the individual's choice of server.

That said i dont know much about the whole system, it could be I can be on Gungnir through EU Datacenter and you could be on Gungnir through US datacenter and a JP be also on Gungnir through JP datacenter, i just dont see how that works with how much i know of datacenters.

[Kiote]

It doesnt matter if the server is labelled regional, the fact that X server is for US and Y Server is for JP will mean more US will go to X and more JP will go to Y.

Yes, "more" players will go to the Server labeled as in their native country, but that doesn't mean the populations will become segregated. There will be more Americans on a NA server, there will be more Europeans on an EU server and there will be more Japanese on a Japanese server, but the fact that this thread even exists, and that it exists on every regions forums, is proof enough that the population will not become segregated.

People who do not want to be segregated will not be. People who want to play with foreign players will more than likely have a much larger amount of interactions if they are the definitive minority. This kind of setup is only going to benefit the people who actually want to play without people outside their region.