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Final Fantasy 14's queues can get long—not for roulettes, mind, those are usually pretty nippy—but if you're trying to complete a specific alliance raid as a newer player, you can be stuck twiddling your thumbs for ages.

Square Enix is planning to make a change that'll fix that soon, though. In a recent blog post to the game's website , it's been announced that same-region player matchmaking'll be available starting November 10 after a successful trial period on its Japanese servers.

What does that mean? Basically, FF14's server architecture is into physical data centers (Japan, Europe, Oceania, and North America), then logical data centers, which are sort of like realms in other MMOs.…