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Never seen a single European player related question asked of S-E since European launch. To that end, I'll ask the one question that I feel is the most important. One I've been asking for many years but one that never makes it to S-E because all the interviews so far have focussed on JP and NA issues only.
Q. Does Square-Enix plan on marking one or two specific servers as "European Players Preferred" any time in the future?
The reason I ask this question is because due to the lack of FFXI on the PS2 in Europe, and population levels in general, the European playerbase is far smaller than their NA and JP counterparts. As such, with the exception of a few servers, many European players find themselves playing FFXI with no chance of ever completing content that JP and NA players enjoy such as finishing the CoP storyline, Dynamis, Limbus, Sky, or any of the three king events. In short, anything other than 6-12 person activities is beyond our scope to participate in let alone beat.
Simply flagging one server as European preferred would at least let new EU players have a chance to share their game with people playing at the same time and give us a chance to achieve things which have previously been denied to us purely because of numbers and not skill. For the record, I've played since October 2003 on the Fenrir server so the question of restarting on a new server in the hopes of maybe finding a Euro population was never an option after I'd invested so much time into my character. Ultimately, I left the game because of this frustration and inability to experience the full range of activities FFXI had to offer. However, if such a server was to come about though I'd be interested in restarting and transferring to it.
Q. Does Square-Enix plan on marking one or two specific servers as "European Players Preferred" any time in the future?
The reason I ask this question is because due to the lack of FFXI on the PS2 in Europe, and population levels in general, the European playerbase is far smaller than their NA and JP counterparts. As such, with the exception of a few servers, many European players find themselves playing FFXI with no chance of ever completing content that JP and NA players enjoy such as finishing the CoP storyline, Dynamis, Limbus, Sky, or any of the three king events. In short, anything other than 6-12 person activities is beyond our scope to participate in let alone beat.
Simply flagging one server as European preferred would at least let new EU players have a chance to share their game with people playing at the same time and give us a chance to achieve things which have previously been denied to us purely because of numbers and not skill. For the record, I've played since October 2003 on the Fenrir server so the question of restarting on a new server in the hopes of maybe finding a Euro population was never an option after I'd invested so much time into my character. Ultimately, I left the game because of this frustration and inability to experience the full range of activities FFXI had to offer. However, if such a server was to come about though I'd be interested in restarting and transferring to it.
I doubt they will seperate the nations / languages to accomodate new players / old players. 
) I work 8:30-5:30pm and normally after 3 gym sessions a week, sorting odds and sods etc I dont get a chance to log on until 9pm and managed about 2 hours a time. The problem for me (not just getting called out as a part time firefighter) but the only chance of getting a good session in is on a weekend especially in the morning. Now in garuda server the people whoa re interested in aprtying with a brit like myself are Americans, who are tucked up in their beds when I log on at 9am GMT. I have found very few europeans on garuda, I know of one dedicated LS, Albianjr of which a few members here are on, but overall when i am playing in the evening and parties I do get into are mostly yanks. The Japanees players are sometimes quite stubbon about not inviting anyone who doesn't speak or type Japanees, which sort of creates the Us and Them thing. A european server would be great but as SE want to integrate all cultures and get everyone playing together I doubt that will happen. As for us euopeans, guess what SE are P***ing in our chips again with todays maintenance, 5pm-9pm GMT european Prime time.. 
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