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

[Nalien]

Basically the biggest thing about these DC shenanigans. When it effects you, there's massive ramifications. But if you aren't effected, there's only positives to be had in the future. I wish square had ran this by us before sending a 3rd of the playerbase into a panic.

Yeah, you'd think they'd have more sense than to take communities they've helped grow and split them up like this with relatively little notice... If this was announced in one of the past live letters, as a "We're thinking about doing this, let us know what you think", and actually discussed this with us somewhat... Well people would be a lot calmer about it at least, not this frantic panic and looming uncertainty some of us now have to deal with... On the eve of a new expansion no less... Tied up nicely alongside "We're adding World-Visit so you can visit friends on other servers!", the sheer lack of awareness or consideration for what this change does for some players is shocking, to say the least...

I would love to be hyped for Shadowbringer right now, but I don't even know who I'll be playing it with at the moment because of all this... Essentially being forced to lose friends like that, in an MMO of all things... I don't know what is going through their heads at this point... I hope the developers at least acknowledge this mess soon... Honestly, the cynical part of me wonders if they timed this announcement with the expansion on purpose, hoping 5.0 hype would drown out the players who are impacted by this, but we'll see I guess...