I would be nice to have some clarification of what is going to happen at ARR with the current servers, at least find out if they are going to stay in JP since current players will not be able to transfer. But with the post of Rukkirii, it sounds we are not going to have any answer until close to Beta.

Rikkirii:
Before we finalize details for current players wishing to transfer, we'll need to consider how we'd want to handle returning players. We'll be looking at the options with regard to the Beta Test conditions.

Some of you have been asking about the bullet point we mentioned during the FINAL FANTASY 25th Anniversary Event Special Talk Session about “improving the amount of freedom of world transfers” -- this meant that we will be setting up a world transfer service similar to FFXI.

I would think that SE would have made the current players regional servers a priority or at least make a poll to see how many players would have move to a local server to get some numbers. Plus it is going to take several months to allow players to move to the new servers since a new economy those not grow in a day.

If the current player base servers stay in JP, I am guessing, including me; will not move since it is not going to be allow until after serveral months and players will get use to the lag of ARR unless it is worst than the current game.