This is going a bit off topic but when I look around the forum it looks really bad.
Most dominating topics are about
- Hackers/RMT/Bots
- Lag/delays/freezes/DC's
I just went through some posts.
Just linking a 'few' topics of people having problems with the delays/lag/dc's/spikes.
First topic is SE suspecting P2P throttling, after all so many topics about lag/server issues can't be caused by *gasp* poor coding.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...P2P-throttling
The rest all about dc's/delay/lag and what not.
This is just the tech support and I haven't even linked every topic where people are having issues.
There is an equal amount in the duplicated bugs forum section.
One got accepted but that was 18 days ago and up to now not a single word.
I even skipped the small topics since it's just way too many.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-%28R0%29-lag
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rted-10hrs-ago.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...0-HORRIBLE-Lag
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...able-to-update.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ant-Lag-Spikes
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...attles-Lagging
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-instant-kills
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-and-DC-issues
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-and-what-not
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-local-servers.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...this-is-a-joke.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...id-AOE-on-time.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...pping-Up-Again
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Packet-Loss-PC
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...geon-instances
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...EU-server-list
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rror-Code-3102
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...2002-and-90000
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...06-ERROR-90000
This is one month after launch.
Most of these problems would not exists IF.
- Proper coding so not every one has a 300 ms by default, lag spikes wouldn't be noticed all that much in that case.
- There would be a separated data centre for the EU , less over load.
Most players aren't on the forum so a large amount of the forum posters suffers from lag and delays.
Even in game every time you play you have 2-3 people 'I lag very bad'.
It isn't even used as excuse either.
Does a topic like this really need another 150 pages before Yoshi decides it's an issue and will he actually bother to fix it?