Servers are fracturing communities

[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.