Quote Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon View Post
I like playing with non English speaking players as well, BUT I would gladly through away this for more responsive servers.
This is how I feel, to an extent. Unfortunately, this is not the case. SE has already said that they have no plans for regional servers in the sense that the servers are actually in their region. All servers will remain in Japan. So this is basically just segregation of players, and does not affect response times in any way.

I say F that. I have a number of JP friends that I enjoy playing with, as I did in XI. For me, it's part of the game and it just wouldn't feel the same without them. And even if these regional servers did affect latency, I would probably still choose a global server.