Quote Originally Posted by ZakarnRosewood View Post
Well, we do know they have reworked the servers to reduce the lag issues that plagued 1.0. I would assume this will also make it so a US player playing on a JP server hopefully wont notice any problems (IE Ifrit Plumes). Creating the regional servers was to reduce this lag as well as hopefully create stronger communities. So I don't think we will need to be on a local regional server just to run the game optimally.

I'm going to assume that the 1.0 servers were all in JP so in JP they will stay.
I agree with your post 100%