@Devs: Please allow us to travel at will between servers.

[Abriael]

Except decisions like this will always have to be made. Even if you have a single global network, friends will have to decide between friends and whatnot for linkshells, parties, guilds, whatever. You can not eliminate these problems entirely as they are not just constructs of the game- they're also real life problems.

You're comparing apples to oranges.

Even if you are on a different party or guild, you still can play together without any hassle.

If you are on different servers you can't.

I am guessing its a really expensive feature to develop

If it was that expensive, The Secret World wouldn't have it. Funcom is a much smaller company than Square Enix, with a much smaller development team, and a lot less resources and smaller budgets.