Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
The Japanese servers cover the SEA area. There will not only be JP players on them- especially on the legacy servers, which already have an established English speaking community.
A lot of the NA and even more EU are jumping ship, just as a lot of JP are jumping from NA back to JP region. It's like mutually-assured repatriation.

This is causing a lot of concern among Asian/Oceanic English speakers (like India, Singapore, Australia) that it will be difficult to find English-language people for group content. If SE agrees, they might consider officially labeling a new and a legacy world in Japan as "International". I think that faced with a choice of "Japan" or "North America/Europe", an English speaker would more likely choose the latter, despite horrible ping times.