I for one am awaiting this. I have the game, I don't play it since January/February, but will gladly start over in a new environment where the playing field (aka the economy) will be normal. Right now there is truth that a lot of crafters are sitting on a pile of gil and the price of some of the armor is high. I saw pieces of the rank 50 NM armor last time I was on for 4-7 million gil.

I would rather wait and get in on a new server to start fresh than on a server where people are level 50 and only play with their level 50 companions. I was in a nice linkshell back then, but felt isolated because never the rank to do anything with them. At least on the new server would be able to team up with people of approximate rank. Since I don't like playing a game alone, I see no reason to log on FFXIV. Would love to play but someone once said that linkshell recruitment has slowed down and well see the previous comment about my linkshell experience.

New players should be allowed to join other servers, as well as a brand new server, beside history shows that SE does it all the time: in FFXI we got new servers at US ps2 release, european version release saw two new servers. While the Xbox 360 version of the game, weren't the beta characters offered to move to the regular servers? So they didn't start exactly fresh.