Title: This thread is specifically for the voice of the affected players/servers due to the new Crystal DC announcement from PLL yesterday.

I need my voice to be heard by SE because the other thread regarding this issue wasn't doing justice. Almost everyone who stated they are OK with this are people that aren't thrown into Crystal DC. But I'm not okay with this. My friends in Diabolos & Malboro are not okay with this. My fellow Primal/Aether friends agree Diabolos got screwed over. All for what?

I'm a long time Final Fantasy series fan, & have been an avid X|V player for 1.5 years now. Not long compared to many here, but that's not the point. I started in Leviathan & transferred to Diabolos because I had friends here already that I hadn't known about til after I made an account. That was no big deal because back then, I didn't have much to lose. I was only 2 months in, wasn't in an FC (trial player), & no close friends. After the move, the rest is history. I've been here since & I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in this game. I've made new friends in home server as well as other Primal servers through the countless Duty Roulettes that I leveled all classes to 70 with; through the Party Finders doing Wonderous Tail, Trial farms, Raid clears; through PVP, the 3 Eurekas! As grindy as Eureka is, the good people made it bearable & actually enjoyable. It's an instance with 180 minutes, & quite honestly I've met & befriended more people through Eureka than anything else; & when that 180m is up & the randoms I met in party are about to disband, do you know what usually happens? We plan to re-instance & make a party again in the new one. Because that's the only way we can hang out cross server.

That's 180 minutes. It's short, but it still makes people sad to say bye. But it's comforting that we can still add friends cross-server or know we can still see each other again since we're in the same DC.
But imagine friendships that was established for months-years. Everyone has a different background & history with this game. I have quite a number of friends who have been here since ARR--they have literally been partying with the most of same people in Primal for 5 years.

That's what an MMO is all about. Playing together with friends & strangers from all over the world with common goals & interests. Forming bonds & friendships in the process as fellow Warriors of Light. SE, you constantly remind us in Main Story Quests the importance of this.