Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[Xenor]

I have problems with Titan plumes. I run as soon as I see it yet I still get hit. I only avoid it if I am already running when it appears.

I don't know what's causing it. The fight can't possibly be designed around predicting exactly when a plume is coming. I do know when to expect one due to the rotation (I have a chart printed) but how many seconds between attacks? Am I meant to count them and run early?

Seems more an issue with latency to me, I'm in the UK so it's quite a distance from Montreal.

[Sneakaboo]

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?

[Jinko]

I think a lot of SE's resources are tied up right now getting servers up to par after the huge crap storm that took place at release. An acceptable and realistic timeframe for some feedback on this would be a month, in my opinion.

I'm not saying we should remain silent on the issue, but I think expecting a quick response on an issue like this isn't going to happen.

The laggy servers suck, but we have to be patient.

A message to say we understand your frustration and we are looking into it or even better a letter from the producer explaining what he plans to do about it.

Not guna happen this week cause of TGS though, but 2 weeks time people trial is up and they will leave if there is no acknowledgement of this and we will be back to 1.0 numbers.

I have FC mates who spend 30$ a year on a proxy service that reduced their latency by 50%, and have had huge success with Titan. Look at your internet connection, who's using it, where is the bandwidth going? Maybe upgrade it?

YES ! customers should pay extra to mask the fact the we have no EU servers and their internal latency is totally shit.

[Vianne]

YES ! customers should pay extra to mask the fact the we have no EU servers and their internal latency is totally shit.

Ironically, EU costumers DO pay extra, as 10.99€ > $12.99.

[Ryios]

Imo, an easy fix for this would be to have the red circle* animation just show up about a half second early than the attack. E.g. Make it show up as Yellow (It's coming), then Red. If people start moving out on Yellow, they don't get hit.

[reality_check]

Imo, an easy fix for this would be to have the red circle* animation just show up about a half second early than the attack. E.g. Make it show up as Yellow (It's coming), then Red. If people start moving out on Yellow, they don't get hit.

This would solve AoE issues but there are a lot of other issues related to the bad netcode that wouldn't see a fix through this.

[Mireillechan]

This is issue is so frustrating on Titan HM...

I have read people of NA with a low ping is getting the issue too, so you can imagine how bad its for EU players with 180+ ms of latency playing on the so called EU servers hosted in montreal... you get the issue that people with low ping is getting plus the latency thing

When you are out of a red circle for nearly 1 second and you still get hit something is wrong, hopefully SE says something about it along with bringin EU servers to Europe.

[Xenor]

Well I've learned how to dodge Titan plumes now. Have to be running when they spawn otherwise you're getting whacked.

[Nexxa]

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?

Starting to seem that way, isn't it?

[Priya]

Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump.

This server issue is frustrating/infuriating to no end, and I can't believe that there is not more rampant discussion about it. How so many people can consider it acceptable is beyond me.