Quote Originally Posted by Sunarie View Post
I'll say this bit again. If lag/latency alone cause people to get hit by AOEs they were out of, then this issue would be present in every single MMO on the market. It's not, because that isn't the cause. It aggravates it, but isn't the root cause.
And I'll say this again - Until someone can state that this is a universal problem while ignoring that plenty of people don't have this issue and some that did have this problem alleviated it by getting a new router, contacting their ISP or upgrading their machines, you can't ignore the possibility of there being an end-user issue.

There's a lot of "No it's not me, it's SE! Netcode! FFXIV! Servers!" but so very little of "I tried x!, I tried y!" I mean, how is it that without changing my router or ISP packages that I went from having issues like this to no issues simply by upgrading my PC..? Wouldn't what you and most others in this topic state mean that my issues still should have persisted with that full upgrade I did..?

We have to face facts, as much as we want to believe it simply can't be an issue on the end-user side, there's a lot of variables, because I wouldn't see people dodge stuff ever if it's solely on the shoulders of SE. Fyi, you keep ignoring that most other MMOs don't have their data considered as P2P, which once again, many ISPs throttle and XIV's data has been determined by many iSPs as "P2P (Torrent)" type traffic. There's a problem that exists, but as much as people want to spout:

"You're ignoring this is a real issue"

People still seem to ignore there's the possibility there's an issue on your end somewhere when it comes to this game specifically. I know my old PC was very old, I wasn't even over the 56mb traffic wired let alone wireless, so could my new motherboard or GPU have solved my "get hit out of red ring" issue? Or did SE just flip a switch and decide I can suddenly dodge stuff now? Variables.