Are they really adding cross-data center visit?

[ItMe]

[...]because good god, NA and JP players will not get along.

As a North American who lived on Tonberry I can't say I understand. Can you elaborate as to why?

[Imora]

when the new DC opens, there will be brand new servers, and world transfers to new servers are free

I want selective lag, not 24/7 lag. Play with them in mornings then go back to my DC for evenings.

[technole]

Tonberry has always been the hybrid English/Japanese server for Oceanic players, if anything most of the strats use the same JP macros and the like, just in English. So I can't imagine much changing even if they migrate to the Oceanic data center.

[Katie_Kitty]

I do. I was around to see the change in "that other game". If I hadn't been I wouldn't see any negatives either.

Nobody cares. Leave other games in other games. I'm really tired of people like you bringing your obsessions with that other game into ffxiv.

[angienessyo]

Here on Cactuar I'm actually terrified of the incoming data center visits. We have two big streamers here and we already get everyone on Aether coming here to see them.

[Laerune]

This is fantastic, I have friends in USA who play on Balmung, now I can visit them and play with them.

[ForteNightshade]

This is pretty much going to happen, if you are visiting another DC, you'll be on their PF/DF.

I wasn't talking about visiting but if say, NA and JP's entire PF were merged together in one massive cross CW system. I can't imagine that'll be how it operates but if it somehow did happen, that's where things would get... interesting.

As a North American who lived on Tonberry I can't say I understand. Can you elaborate as to why?

This is assuming PF were merged altogether not if you simply visited say, Mana and only had access to Mana's PF. For example sake, say I queue into DF normally on Aether. I could get players from every Data Center. I doubt they go that route and it's simply limited to the Data Center you happen to be on though. In any case, if that actually happened. It'd cause problems simply due to the fundamentally different attitudes.