Adding in a comment as someone who runs a Player Run event...this change makes me worry about the longevity of doing so if this is going to exclude a lot of my friends and attendees. Especially on Crystal—many people run many events that draw interest in attendence and this change feels like you may as well have gotten rid of DC or server travel at all and return to Ye Old Days...and would inadvertantly make players compete against each other for something like hosting social event; which seems extremely counter intuitive to everything laid in place to allow people to, you know, socialize?

I felt strongly enough about this to actually make an account on the forums, kindly I would ask y'all to reconsider this policy or approach it in a different way.