SE: Please address the enormous imbalance created with the data center changes.

[Barraind]

There's a reason why Gilgamesh was the big raiding server. That's where people went to raid.

Back before cross-server party finding, absolutely.

Now that you dont have to transfer to those srrvers, you... dont have to transfer there. you could be on "i can buy a house and hang out with friends when not raiding and have an economy that isnt trash" instead of, say Cactuar (which is what I did). I can totally raid with people on gilg, or cactuar, (or in my case, Faerie) and not have to be on that server.

With these changes, surprise, you cannot again, unless you picked the right smaller world to be on. If you wer eon a smaller aether world, you picked poorly, despite it being marketed, for YEARS, as the best thing to do by Squenix itself.

"come to this small server, its great, we give you bonuses to do so, you can still do almost everything with everyone on your datacenter still, theres almost no downside"

We're now seeing the downside. Its called "you dont get to play with any of those people anymore (I personally lose 94% of my raid/ex/farm contacts who arent also on my server. Woo, fun)".