Seriously

[Ubermann]

You are not making any sense at all with your posts man, you are blaming people for making exaggerations but every statement you yourself make is based on pure speculation and not facts, if you took the time to read the posts made you would notice that most of the posters here have already been in contact with their isp's , they have done traceroute and in the majority of the cases the problem is located within the datapark congestion that is under the direct control of square , they could fix this problem by opening up or expanding on their current datapark (that is by now proven to be unable to handle the task)

And by using your version of logic, im writing this post for me personally but im also representing the 12 other people in my guild (who have yet to make a single lag post but they have the same lag problems i have or worse) so by your logic that would mean that 13X5000 people have lag issues (hypothetical sample size taken out of my ass, which is exactly the same as every post you made) so my "guesstimate" is that 65000 people are having severe lag issues 65000/250000 (your number not mine) which means 1/4 is having lag issues!!!!!!!

So let's stop making shit up for abit and loook at the fact's

The lag people are experiencing is by far the most posted problem on the technical forum and have been for almost a month /check
I have talked to my isp provider and confirmed that the problem is not on their end, the congestion is taking place in montreal which means that its Squares problem to fix not mine /check
In my FC everyone is affected by primetime lag and on my server (Odin/eu) the guilds we do coil with are saying the exact same thing, aka they cant play because a majority of their players are lagging too much. /check

If this was a problem only affecting a small minority it would not be the hot topic on reddit (and have been for the last month), it would most certainly not generate more posts then any other subject on the english forums (not just technical but all all sub forums)

Its ok beeing a fanboi and standing up for the game you like, but pretty much everyone making a post here love the game, otherwise they would do what my guild is planning to do if nothing is done, which is to unsub and go play something else without making any posts of any kind, the people actually posting hoping for a resolution to this problem is the people that actually want to stay and play the damn game.

Quoted for truth.

[Recaldy]

Lagging pretty bad on Balmung AND the Duty Finder server as this very moment. Hard to get anything done.

[Ervin]

I got lucky today and didnt get any lag.

However, it doesnt make it less of an issue. To the people arguing against the OP I just have a question. Why argue? If you arent effected, you have no reason to post, since the thread/threads are about having the lag issue. There are already 1400+ post in one thread regarding this issue that gives SE info about occurance, region, isp, server and everything. We can be fair and say 1200 unique posts in that thread. Thats still 1k of the forum goers that report this issue. And as with all games, the forum goers are a strong minority of the actual game population. So it's not just 1k players out of 1mil, it's 1k out of whatever small % visits the forums. Which in turn make those 1200 quite a large pool of people with problems.

I'm still not sure why SE are so slow to fix things. There are major issues with lag, aswell as poor graphic optimization. For me personally, it's probably the worst preforming MMO I've played. The game is fun and all, interesting boss mechanics and a great setting, but the bugs, lag and lack of optimization is taking it's toll on me.

[Maza]

Maybe some people have no problems because it's not a sandbox. I'm no expert on networks but they have more than one server in Canada. How are 7500 people (I think thats what I read about how many per server) being fed into each server and the routes all these peoples comps take to it. I've read posts of couples playing on different comps using the same net service but one has mad lag and the other is fine, how the heck is that possable if it's an ISP throttling issue? I've been on vacation for a week and playing in the morning is much better than the evening (west coast US). I can be in one heavy pop city with crazy lag then airship to another with just as many and no lag /shrug

Oh and I have been playing since the start of beta 3 no problems at all through till launch. First couple of weeks after launch were a total blast and I was loving it, after that the lag came in and I've been playing half as much and having half as much fun since. I was a "white knight" through the whole start of the game, had zero complaints till now.

[Sax]

Because people without an issue wouldn't post that they don't have an issue. Why would they? And you're right, I don't know there aren't thousands of people affected, but neither do you. Your information is based on your own experience and the hundreds of people (not thousands) posting on the forums. Just because it's a hot topic in the technical support area at the moment, doesn't automatically mean a high proportion of the players are affected, it just means there are relatively few other problems.

Actually if you look at the throttling thread (which is likely the first stop most people with this problem make on the forum) you will see that it is reaching into the thousands. Also, I am not the one claiming thousands are/are not having problems, that's all you. Again, I said based on the number of posts on this forum there is a large portion (not proportion, they are different words with different meanings) experiencing difficulties. How many people do you think post on this forum? I would say 10,000 is a rather large overestimate of posters on the English forum. Compare that to the 1400+ posting in other threads and you end up with an underestimated 14% of posters experiencing problems. If the forum is representative of the true player base (like I said before, it's unlikely) that's 14% of the player base experiencing the problem. That is not an insignificant amount. (See I can do bad stats as well.)

Yes, it's the most widely talked about issue, and not only here but on other forums as well, which is why SE need to acknowledge the issue and try to resolve it to both keep the current player base happy and decrease the amounts of negative publicity they're receiving about it.

[Boretalith]

Greetings,

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