Someone had to step up and say something, I don't mind doing the honours. It's a tough subject but silence would be the same as submission.

At this point in time, it would actually be better if the devs took the harder but rightful path of forcing all players to permanently move/play on the data center in their own region (as soon as practical), to protect and respect cultures at their roots by default. The OCE situation is not ideal (having been created late) and players from there that started or are located in other region's DCs, have little reason or are too embedded elsewhere to move there without being forced. But ultimately this harder path will work out better for all parties. Some people will lose houses and friends, but it must be done and they can easily be refunded and also pass off a free company to the next member in line in those cases.

It is unfortunate that such effort has been made to make global travel possible, at a point in history where it's now the opposite of what's needed regarding the internet. 20+ years ago, the problem that has now clearly emerged did not exist, as 'few' people were using the internet- but now that 'everyone' is basically forced to use the internet, a threat to certain cultures and languages exists and is growing. Through the conduit of the internet, those cultures and languages are at absolute risk of being replaced or swallowed by others, making internet segregation the right path, in lieu of restricting who/how many people can use it back to levels before ~2005.

The main threat that has emerged (for my language/culture) is that N-A English is already eating away at British-English and Australian-English, and without corrective action will eventually replace both. Make no mistake- our regions do not speak the same language and we do not share the same values (we all know this). But there are far more North-American-English speakers on the internet than B-E and A-E speakers- and this means language replacement/contamination is, without action, inevitable in a matter of under 2 decades because our regions' people are simply outnumbered on the internet. This is compounded further by more internet use in recent years, and a lessened ability for societies to self-correct due to less public interaction- and less of a country's exposure to it's own culture across the board. Politicians are of course weak and will not do their duty to defend their regions, and will always take the no-action path leading to complete erosion, followed by later telling their region's people that 'they chose to start speaking N-A-English', and that their values are the same as NA values (this lie is already being told), when they absolutely are not. People in these regions are already being given decreased instances where their own culture appears as an option.

It is through the young that this danger is spreading and most potent, and why I must ask the devs to cancel the global DC travel, or at least apply trial-version chat restrictions upon all 'Voyagers' visiting the Materia/OCE. And eventually it is the wise decision to follow this up by giving players some manner of 6 month period to shift their characters to their own region's DC for free. This is the way it must be. You can already see British, European and Australian streamers on Twitch and other media mediums, speaking North-American-English words, phrases and sayings without realizing it- they should not be. This is not the same as 'a people' genuinely taking on one or two sayings, over a period of decades- although politicians will swear that what is now happening is 'just social change', when in fact it is culture and language replacement due to these things being left completely unprotected.

I should have posted this earlier, but I was not aware that the semi-global DC test was going to take place so soon, and for so long. The main immediate and urgent concern I have right now is that Easter is very soon, and given that NA has had Easter taken away from them internally and replaced with 'something else', we DO NOT want their 'non-easter situation' infecting our region. We do not want NA players coming to OCE and blasting their 'non-easter phrase' everywhere this coming weekend, it IS offensive and corrosive TO US because we still have Easter and Christmas etc- which in Australia long ago broke away from (and beyond) religion and became critical core cultural celebrations. We cannot tolerate the looming culture and language interference. Europe are also exposed and having the same problem, but should likewise be excluded from travel to OCE as the problem has spread into a few tiny pockets there already. Furthermore I will point out that Europeans learning English are supposed to be learning British-English, but some are nowadays learning North-American-English by mistake. This will also result in N-A-English phrases, terms and words being subconsciously translated into various European languages by the young people of those countries, and spoken out into those societies, making things even worse. Hence why European players should also be given the same period of time to shift their characters back to their region permanently.

This is a topic that will make some people uncomfortable, but the truth always is. I'd be letting my country down by remaining silent and hoping the problem will go away by itself, but it won't- and it's not even just my own country that is being subjected to this problem. I'm sure we all wanted to believe in our younger years that our lives were going to be nice and easy, that our nations' hardest times were in the past; things that happened long ago that get mentioned in a newspaper article anecdote- but this issue is real and is happening now, with our cultures and languages on a knife edge, if we lose them to replacement/contamination, they're gone forever.