Profanity Filter and OCE Data Center

[Enkidoh]

On your first point, maybe if players toned down the sailor-talk a bit, then they wouldn't have to be banned, with or without the profanity filter. It might be considered 'hip' and 'edgy' to sprinkle swear words in every sentence like sauce over a particularly offensive cassarole, but it's not condoned socially, either in a formal setting or in a social game. Especially for a game that has a 'teen' rating in the US which FFXIV does. So SE is getting more stringent with in-game player behaviour.

As for your second point, SE considers Australia close enough to Japan to not bother with 'Australian' servers, so I don't see this ever happening (and I say that as an Australian player who plays on a US server). Believe it or not Australia's player population is not considered high enough to warrant the expense I'm afraid.