Limited Data Travel System

[MsQi]

I mean, I don't really want to play with Americans either.

"IM IN UR BASE KILLING ALL YOUR DOODZ"

[Illmaeran]

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What do y'all think about this?

Feels like SE is protecting the JP server markets from being raided by the gaijins.

Or is this reading too much into it?

You're reading too much into it. There's a difference in economies between servers on the same data center too. For example, Atomos' economy isn't as robust as others such as Tonberry so we see people coming to Atomos to buy but selling elsewhere. While that does benefit people on Atomos to a degree, the differences in the economies haven't equilibrated. If they opened up access to all servers to anyone around the world the various servers' economies would go bonkers and not settle down for a long time, if ever.

Opening up all JP servers to people on JP data centers and the same for NA and EU is reasonable. SE needs to be careful to maintain general parity in Relative Wealth across servers and regions.

You can be sure that SE NA/Europe are paying close attention to the economies in those regions and that information will influence the decision to open up cross-region travel or not.

I mean, I don't really want to play with Americans either.

To be completely frank, after getting fed up with the way Western/NA MMO communities behaved, I intentionally rolled on a JP server to avoid it. I don't want that BS making its way to the place I went to get away from it.

[Canadane]

"values" can mean more than just money/gil.
Honestly it's probably for the best.

[CatboySweatlord]

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What do y'all think about this?

Feels like SE is protecting the JP server markets from being raided by the gaijins.

Or is this reading too much into it?

Good lmao, how it should be, NA Market is the wild west

[Vonleo]

I see no problem in this.

[Puremallace]

Not sure about that but it was made pretty clear to prevent culture clashes. To me it further solidifies the actual audience of FF14 is the JP one with the rest of just being financial contributors. Saw Korean developers make similar statements constantly about their MMO's and the message is very clear to NA and EU players.

[Caurcas]

Not sure about that but it was made pretty clear to prevent culture clashes. To me it further solidifies the actual audience of FF14 is the JP one with the rest of just being financial contributors. Saw Korean developers make similar statements constantly about their MMO's and the message is very clear to NA and EU players.

That is funny considering NA/EU dwarf JP in population numbers.

[Quintessa]

That is funny considering NA/EU dwarf JP in population numbers.

And in Aion(Korean MMO) there's more of both.

The companies have to appeal to their locals but that's not to say other regions are unimportant.

[Vonleo]

That is funny considering NA/EU dwarf JP in population numbers.

Which is absolutely true. Japan has a population problem and will continue to do so until there is an actual culture change when it comes to prioritizing work over family/friends. So until japan changes this culture that all work and no play is the only way to be successful they will continue to have population problems.

[Quintessa]

Then there's Tonberry which is basically the English speaking JP server where both play.