Servers are fracturing communities

[Airget]

Well, this is the problem of everyone telling everyone else "join balmung or gilgamesh."

Its no ones fault but the players.

Plus this is why SE is pushing to have Datacenters at least share a community through Party Finder. Sure right now you can't engage in dialogue or be with them in the open world, but with time they may introduce Instances in which friends from other servers could hang out.

[Ogulbuk]

Plus this is why SE is pushing to have Datacenters at least share a community through Party Finder. Sure right now you can't engage in dialogue or be with them in the open world, but with time they may introduce Instances in which friends from other servers could hang out.

Have they not hinted at allowing cross-server linkshells and friend lists already as a next step in cross-world tools? Ideally, we would eventually get to also have cross-world FCs.

[Niwashi]

Have they not hinted at allowing cross-server linkshells and friend lists already as a next step in cross-world tools?

I've heard that, too, but can't remember where. Did they specify when those changes would be coming?

Ideally, we would eventually get to also have cross-world FCs.

Sounds like another reason to push for instanced housing (which we need anyway for availability reasons). Instanced houses reachable from any server in the data center would be a good way to give cross-world FCs (or friends) a non-dungeon place to hang out together.

We don't need the whole open world to be reachable from any server (which would make hunts and giant FATEs a nightmare), but having someplace other than dungeons to actually meet up together with friends would be great.