With the data center reshuffle some people are going to be losing long time friends. Is it possible to for the devs to rework the networking code for FFXIV to allow the data centers in each region to be connected together?

Blizzard has done this for WoW you can pretty much play with and be friends with anyone on any server in your region. I know Yoshi P is a fan of theirs. So I know its possible for a mmo to do this.

Maybe look to having some way everyone can play together. Because this 3rd data center feels like the player base will be divided up further. We don't want friends being split up.