Spawnie, how is it better to tell all the players in the EU to break up their FCs, lose their houses, possibly lose gil during a transfer (there's a cap on how much you can bring, right?), and all in all jump through hoops - rather than simply saying that now the servers are hosted somewhere else?

The American players that will experience lag now KNEW the servers were listed as EU when they joined them. Not all European players knew the EU servers were actually physically located in Canada; I know I didn't when I first started playing.