Separate data servers... separate but equal?

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I think someone else brought this up in a newer post, but I think it's very odd that Japan (a tiny island of 128 million people) gets 25 servers. And North America and Europe (with a combined population of 1169 million people) gets.... 25 servers. How can you call that equal exactly? Even if the ENTIRE population of Japan played FFXIV (which is doubtful), that's 10% of the combined population of North America and EU, and that's not even counting the rest of the world! We're talking about 6.9+ billion if the rest of the world is sharing the NA/EU servers. Granted, I'm sure ALL those people don't play FFIV, but do not kid yourself that this is in any way equal.

If it were equal, by SE's logic (25 servers for 128 million people), at the VERY least, NA/EU (just going off the combined populations of those two continents) should have 228 servers. And if 50 servers are enough for the world, Japan should only have 1 of those 50.