Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
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.
You've just proven my point.
The move to Crystal didn't result in a two-way migration, with some moving back from Crystal and some moving TO Crystal, in order to keep friendship groups together, as would have happened anywhere else in the world.
Instead, everyone just moved off Crystal because Crystal was deemed the unpopular datacenter.

There shouldn't be such a thing as an unpopular server or datacenter, that's the cause of all of these congestion issues and 'dead' servers.

And again, NA is mostly US players, and the issue here is trends which the majority are responsible for.