HORRIBLE Lag

I'm getting horrible lag on Famfrit. It only started this morning, and ever since I've been getting disconnected every 5 minutes. I see other players standing around for 20+ seconds then they started teleporting all over the place. I can't even see my own character some times. I called my ISP and they said my internet is running fine. I tried playing other online games and my ping was good, zero lag. Sending and Receiving are both at 0. GG.

Vancouver, B.C.
Telus ISP

You're not the only one Omega, I have been lagging (as well as a bunch of other people on the Coeurl server) ever since their failed maintenance 2 days ago, on 9/18. Ever since we got back from that maintenance, shit has just gone downhill. I can imagine how much more pissed I'd be if I hadn't downed Titan before this fiasco, my entire guild can't even do a smooth run anymore. Basically, the endgame (which is the only thing this game has to offer atm) is unplayable. When I go into forums, youtube, etc. everything loads just fine, my internet connection is smooth. Going back to Guild Wars 2, SWTOR, or even Rift, everything is running smoothly with no latency issues.

Square, pull your head out of your asses and fill us in if you even give a shit, or I'll take my money elsewhere.

I too am getting extreme lag, as I am in Australia I expect a small amount but as of aprox 4 am Aust EST game is constantly freezing, making it impossible to dungeons, FATES even Leves as AoE attacks are hitting me before they even show on screen, now almost miday here and still the same, I have checked my internet speed and PC everything on my side id good, I have "Excellent connection" so I can only put this down to over population of server , on Excalibur, even understanding this is weekend and NA prime time when it began, this is first time I have experience such lag

I'm on behemoth and getting the same problem. The problem does not exist on the Japan Date Center, only NA/EU. I'm guessing either SE have broken something or their servers are getting DDOS from gill sellers because they are pissed off at getting all their accounts banned and people not buying gill from them. It would be nice to get a response from a dev or community rep on this and a rough timeframe when it will be fixed.

Yep me too on Diablos.

I have played the game for 3 weeks with no issue and now they have resumed the online sales, we got unplayable lag.

SE needs to find more servers ASAP if they are selling copies again

Yep getting it this morning ,makes it not worth playing.

Same here the game ran fine last night before the second round of maintenance but this morning the game is more or less unplayable.

Seddhir
Goblin server

Same here. last few days have been rough, tonight finally did castrum and it was unplayable.

Galen
Gilgamesh server

It's not SE it's the ISPs that throttle which should freaking illegal.

Same deal here. Been running great until today when i logged in. I guess it is the weekend but still....

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It's not SE it's the ISPs that throttle which should freaking illegal.

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Though some ISPs might be throttling. The current issue isn't that, but on SE's end. It wasn't today that it just suddenly clicked for providers around the world and they decided to be like 'hey, let's all start throttling this program that's been in use for weeks today!'

This is SE's problem, they posted something about throttling and isp's, but i call bullshit on that. Everything I play runs fine except this game after the patch 2 days ago, I don't know what they did, but they need to undo it, sick of 3 seconds of delay, as if it wasn't bad enough with not being able to get into the game those first few days. And yes I've called my ISP and they are not throttling this game.

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Originally Posted by Orson_Dara

It's not SE it's the ISPs that throttle which should freaking illegal.

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So you're saying numerous ISPs, around the world, are throttling just FF14? Are you stupid?

Maybe it is something that SE did but throttling fits the problem pretty well. The more people logging in and buying digital copies means that you're using a P2P for those people to download the game. It's just a coincidence this issue just started to get way worse after the digital sales reopened? Not only that the issue is going to be exacerbated on the weekend just generally speaking that's when companies tend to throttle more. It is very feasible that this is a throttling issue.

Now I agree you can blame SE for whatever change that made the game be flagged as P2P software. The thing is it doesn't give the ISP a free pass. If you don't think traffic shaping doesn't happen all the time you're sadly mistaken. Just because some flunky in tech support says "oh no we don't throttle," just means they either don't want to look into or they just aren't told. A lot of ISPs are just resellers and have no control over whether they throttle or not. Throttling and traffic shaping should be illegal if it was we'd never have this problem of figuring out who's fault it is.

Also Cenie you're the idiot if you think that numerous ISPs, around the world, aren't throttling many programs possibly including FFXIV. The whole point of throttling is that you'll only it experience in a handful of areas, certain times of day, and a given program when they need to prioritize traffic for other uses and p2p gets shat on. You obviously don't understand how much control your ISP has over your connection.

The funniest part is that my post was in relation to the OP they are Telus in Canada. I'm having the same issue as well as a bunch of other Telus customers. Guess what is notoriously common in Canada? No, you guys are right though, there's no way in hell this thread was started because of a throttling issue.

I've been getting random lag spikes also myself today. It was odd. Like there would be moments people would stop moving for like a second or two then return to normal after they warped elsewhere.

FIX THE LAG omg takes 1 minute to mine one freaking node FFS take down the servers for an hour or two i do not care but do something to fix this shit now!

I too am having lag spikes that appear sometimes every 5-10 mins (sometime more or less regular) they last about 3 seconds then everyone catches up, it#s been happening now for a few days, even more so today, it's constant now, and in Aurum Vale today I must have had over 20 spikes thru out the dungeon.

Moogle (and instance server too)