EU lag

AOE's will hit you even if you are well far from area of impact. You have far less time to react to a threat than any other na or j player. Plus you get hit miles out the aoe area because of this horrible delay.
As a whm not only u look like someone who stays standing in the middle of a threat recieving bad words from impatient players, but if you are in the center of an aoe you don't have the time to move out of it.

This is very frustrating. You know that on duties you WILL be hit outside the aoe and you WILL get insulted


Pls move one server from canada to a closer eu nation for eu players. It feels like we are less important customers.

Been having this issue for weeks now.

Being a Paladin and running dungeons/fights were I NEED to stun the enemy is impossible because this lag/delay means I do not see the attack I am supposed to stun. My entire game now has just been turned into me gathering, because I cannot play with this ridiculous lag in effect.

I am on the Moogle server.

Agreed, the fact the server's aren't even in the EU is ridiculous and I'm doubtful the lag will ever get fixed as a result.

Some moves like the red cone attack you can stand inside the mob to create a shorter distance to run out. Another tactic is to move/act before the enemy action is marked on the ground which could end up that you running into the attack area instead of running out.

Some things like pulling the far away red line garuda sister to a good spot or continues dodging heavy attacks from Titan HM... you need great luck as skill cannot make up for the lag.

Yeah, even fates are impossible to complete wirh a decent amount of xp with this lag. The game in this way is only frustrating. Please do something!

PS: my world is also Moogle

Well I can log into World of Warcraft at have 31 ms of latency to the server. You know its kinda important for whats happening on screen to reflect actual events and until Square put some money on the table to provide the community with European servers that are actually in Europe then nothing will change.

Brace yourself for the influx of 'ZOMG its your connection,ISP,routing,BLAH BLAH BLAH' posts that will be sure to follow.

Guess Blizzard actually realize the importance of providing something that for all its issues is very much playable.

Until SE gives the EU there own servers the EU should not give them any money.

How can we have info on this issue, everybody knows but none talks about it.

Is SE considering about having 1 EU server?

I do expect someone from SE to reply at this topic

We are having a different and lower quality service, the game is great but this trouble hampers it

i live in the UK and i have no problems at all with lag, only rarely i will get a lag spike but thats it, or i get 90k'd.

also you may want to read the following post, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...P2P-throttling which is probably the main cause of your lag issues.

so it may not be SE's fault, it might be your ISP's fault

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Originally Posted by darkvision

i live in the UK and i have no problems at all with lag, only rarely i will get a lag spike but thats it, or i get 90k'd.

also you may want to read the following post, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...P2P-throttling which is probably the main cause of your lag issues.

so it may not be SE's fault, it might be your ISP's fault

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I've seen players in UK been having problems also. Across whole Europe players have problems.

Some players actually found out it could be a specific traffic in the US area where it bumps. I'm pretty sure SE would be fixing that by now and change company (whatever) to let the traffic go around.

Or simply again.. get a bunch of EU servers in EU like Blizzard did with WoW? Sure hell it will solve 95% of EU players problem immedietly and yourself will get "Excellent" ping to the server.

There are people in the US having issues with the servers. Moving to EU doesn't mean that none will still have issues. It may fix it for some and create new issues for others. Sadly the routing is that bad.

Hmm, my typical ping is about 100-200ms and I don't have much issues with the AoEs. I have dodged Titan's plumes even though I was sure I got hit (got out at the last possible moment).

On the other hand, these AoEs are absolutely impossible to dodge:

- Magitek Cannon if i'm directly in the center
- The AoE the first boss in WP uses, only dodged it once, because I was almost out of it anyway

And then there's Piercing Laser, used by ADS, very hard to dodge, even when I see it coming. Once, I was out of it for 1.5 seconds, it still hit me.

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Originally Posted by Lenders

Pls move one server from canada to a closer eu nation for eu players. It feels like we are less important customers.

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But EU players ARE less important customers. Just look at global sales figures of games and you undestand why. Its the state of modern gaming; games gotta sell millions or it doesnt give billions of profits therefore its better to invest your money elsewhere. Giving local servers to EU would cost money so its easy to just treat as a scum since we have less players here and save a bit dosh.

Hey - I am conj and am nervous of going any further than lord of the inferno (don't even want to start that!) - I seem to be having a lag and I got loads of abuse on my last dun. I actually changed world and started again as some woman from a fc was rude and horrid - I play on a PS3. I moved from Shiva to Odin. I need to join a FC that actually does things - the last one I was in did nothing. So now I am a nervous reluctant scared healer who just harvests all of the time. Any suggestions pls?!

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AOE's will hit you even if you are well far from area of impact. You have far less time to react to a threat than any other na or j player.

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Er, no, ask my friend who plays in Alaska, or those posting from CA who have ping times larger than mine from England .. this is NOT an EU-only problem.

I played through the entirety of the main storyline without many problems with AoE attacks because it wasn't SUCH a great deal, but on the HM Primals, especially Titan, it can be infuriating to be doing so well then you have 2 plumes merged with each-other and if you even flinch for a split-second on some of them you WILL get hit for over 2k.

Luckily my latency isn't that bad as I can easily get past the Heart Phase without getting hit by a plume or Landslide but when I see plumes forming and people are standing right in the centre for up to 1-1.5 seconds not moving my heart just goes ten to the dozen because I immediately think they're going to get hit but then they will appear on my screen as running out of the plume with mere split-seconds to go and they'll not get hit.

I've been at Titan HM for over 3 WEEKS now, and the closest I've got to is about 20% but it's just madness from that point on as a minority of the party die from not reacting quick enough and as people have said it's sometimes down to luck rather than skill dodging some plumes...

Just stop giving SE your money. They have not earned it.

Customer Support: 0/10
Server performance: 0/10
Game Content available: 3/10
Replay value at max lvl: 0/10
Client Server Latency: 0/10

SE has not done a good job with this game. The game is fun to a certain point, and instance fight mechanics are fun. However... it takes way to short of a time to out level each bit of content, and at end game you get to bash your head against Titan, and repeat BC once a week. Not much fun there. Then there are the issues with the servers, routing, etc etc. These issues that SE has not even commented on.

Normally when you pay a recurring sub for an MMO its because it has lots of content to keep you busy, and you get other things from the company like working servers, low latency, and above all CUSTOMER SUPPORT.

This is the first MMO I have ever played where getting any form of customer support is almost impossible. What are we paying for? Oh yea.. crap servers, crap game, no content, and no customer support. That is what we are paying for. I say we let SE know we are not happy by not giving them any more money.

stop blaming throttling ISPs. ITs the shitty connection on SE datacenter the problem is.

I ONLY got lag from 6pm to 11pm CET on only monday and tuesday. Whjich is the time when everyone does coil and ak resets for myth. Rest of the week, no lag issues

This game is the first game after many years that got me hooked in..after long time I joined guild again and tried the endgame and have lot of fun but lag is killing the game for me...unfortunately our guild can only play at peak times due to real life obligations of all members...and is almost impossible to do some fights with that lag. Sadly, all of my guild consider to stop playing even if they love the game cause for weeks now we have issues...

at first we had patience...ok maye SE didn't expect so many people, or they will buy better servers and we always waiting for this to be fixed...but we run out of patience now

As of right now I cannot see myself beating Titan HM the way the latency is for everyone, I'll probably have my majority of AF2 gear way before beating him, it's soul-crushing to say the least.

Hey, I have an idea. How about SE move the datacentre and all its servers from Montreal to Europe.

See how would all those people playing over in the States saying "oh it is not SE's fault" will react... when we in turn say "oh it is not SE's fault".

if it makes you feel any better, I play from southern California, and I am getting the constant lag that prevents people from avoiding aoe damage circles etc. I think a lot of players in usa and countries in Europe are all in the same situation of having this lag. I feel bad for anybody who is trying to play through it, it is very frustrating at best.

personally I am just not gonna sub, I have like 2 or 3 days left on the trial. there are several posts on these forums with a lot of pages, I would guess at least 2000+ complaints. not a word from SE. I think they really messed up and will lose a lot of players right off the start. but who knows, I could be wrong and they are happy with the situation the way it is.

unsubbing as well. No point in playing a lagging game

Ya. the lag is terrible from 20:00GMT+2 to about 22:30GMT+2 before that and after that its fine. My ISP gives priority on there MMO games WOW,SWTOR etc, and now FFXIV so I know its not that problem.

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Ya. the lag is terrible from 20:00GMT+2 to about 22:30GMT+2 before that and after that its fine. My ISP gives priority on there MMO games WOW,SWTOR etc, and now FFXIV so I know its not that problem.

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Stupid thing is that usually exactly when most FCs with work/school going players raid at. :/ Our progress is stuck because we just can't raid during peak hours due to horrible horrible lag. I have the game paid till like February, but I'm for sure not going to give SE anymore of my money if this shit doesn't get solved soon. I suppose one way to solve is to have all the players quit so the servers aren't as busy.

New Zealand here also same Lagg probliems. So its not you EU guys its SE.
Even american users are getting lagg.

Sent multiple reports & Forums Reps have gone to great lengths covered them up (& they do not breach the terms of use!).

I have a current customer support issue open up. Will concider adding a complaint against the cover up's.

They shouldn't have started charging subscriptions while the game is plagued with these problems. Right now I can't even make it past the 90ks to get hit by the unavoidable AoE lol.

Did anyone manage to receive an official reply on this?

if you did pls post it to let us all know

thx

Massive lag last night every time I went into an instance, so bad it's like watching a slideshow.

I thought maybe it was my connection but it ran fine outside of dungeons...

Greetings,

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