Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
When Crystal (and then Dynamis) was created, you didn't get this with Americans. They didn't have an even split of some leaving Crystal and some joining Crystal, because it's not just about friendships for them, it's about server identity. Some players simply didn't want to be on Crystal, because Crystal had an identity they didn't like, and vice versa.
This is bizarre phenomenon unique to the NA servers.
Crystal wasn't created with fresh servers. Crystal was a split of Aether and Primal. And people flooded back to the DCs they had been yanked off of because they never wanted to leave in the first place. It's fine if you were fine and dandy with it on EU. We weren't on NA and they probably remembered that so that's why they made the DC with fresh servers this time. Then we have a choice of going there or not going there.

Also, again, NA is not just US players.