Small QoL fix for new players: server selection

[Serilda]

I play on a Japanese datacentre. This is fine, because I can speak Japanese; some other players who don't speak Japanese manage by playing with close-knit groups of friends or congregating on Tonberry with other people from the English-speaking countries closer to the Japanese servers. Again, this is fine.

What I have noticed recently now we have cross-world Party Finder, however, is that there are quite a lot of new players starting out on Japanese worlds with no friends and no interest in learning Japanese. This leads to them being unable to make groups for anything or communicate and a lot of them just quit, which is a huge shame as they aren't bad people. The rest create empty Party Finders with no descriptions which sit in the list for hours and hours on end, or end up blacklisted by the community for appearing rude (they don't mean to be rude, but not talking to people has that effect).

I spent quite a long time discussing the issue with someone on another server recently when I entered his Party Finder and he told me he'd picked his world simply because it had the coolest name. He then hit a wall because he couldn't do anything which required party coordination and became really lonely. I helped him find some other players and we did one fight together, which he really enjoyed. A happy ending.

I checked his Lodestone today; he hasn't played since that day. It's a shame that he became so socially isolated just because of one impulsive decision back at the start and new players don't always like the idea of starting over from scratch or paying for a transfer so early into their FFXIV experience.

Can we have a popup warning for people trying to create their first character on a datacentre that doesn't match their client language settings in any way? Just a simple warning message that can be immediately dismissed, nothing more. I love being able to hop between different regions but it's really not clear how isolated you can end up if you pick the wrong world from the start, and new players are particularly vulnerable to this mistake.

[Sida]

I'd give more likes than one for this if I could!

Edit: a tie in suggestion, which isn't actually interface related but here goes. Give to all new players option for one free server change, as long as they have short enough playtime. Could this be abused, maybe yes. But I think most who use the paid server change are either chronic server hoppers, who wouldn't benefit much of this. Or long time players who find they want to unite with people found in DF or whatever such reasons. They would stull use the paid server change.

This one freebie would help new ones who find out language barrier, possibly badly cliqued environment, overbloated server economy, find out their RL friend is actually in another server, or find a nice starter FC through DF run with folks from other server.