Why I stopped paying for FFXIV

[Roris]

A lot of asian games optimize their netcode for a smaller region, makes sense in their case but not much when they go global, I've heard it could be because of a common JP language network library but no idea really. In any case it's on them to fix these issues because there's not much players can do and using a VPN is really a tacky solution that shouldn't even have to be done in the first place, especially when other MMOs and online games don't need it at all.

[remidi]

Have you even watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37IY1XkLDI and tried adding the registry keys to the appropriate connection? If not, you should try this.

1.)
Name: TcpAckFrequency - DWORD (32bit)
Value: 1
Base: Hexadecimal
2.)
Name: TCPNoDelay - DWORD (32bit)
Value: 1
Base: Hexadecimal

No...no ...no

Its not my connection. It's not my ISP. It's on SE's end. This isn't the year 2000 where we are all on dial up and we need to tweak everything for individual games. Stop looking for stupid fixes. They need to spend some money on better servers/infrastructure. That's the bottom line.

[Annie]

Latency wouldn't be so bad. if they didn't make game fight reply so much on position ( Server side). end of story.

[AunaYuuki]

WTfast program for maintaining ping has been a savior for me in titan extreme. You get it for free the first 30 days and perfectly legal. I play on a wireless connection/laptop and if I miss its my fault.

[Miiu]

No...no ...no

Its not my connection. It's not my ISP. It's on SE's end. This isn't the year 2000 where we are all on dial up and we need to tweak everything for individual games. Stop looking for stupid fixes. They need to spend some money on better servers/infrastructure. That's the bottom line.

This one bothers me so much. People come here expressing problems with lag latency etc. but when others try to give them possible solutions they rather continue having problems and keep complaining instead of trying a few different methods that seem to work for a large amount of players.
I'm not trying to say all people who have problems with this game are at fault etc. but there are dozens of people who don't have problems which means that SEs server are working. Could they be improved? Sure but that is not really the point. Every system can be optimized. That goes for your pc/isp as well.

[Geobryn]

@fix your internet ppl
why do you think SE can not do anything with lag ?
if other games works better going through the same choke points could mean that FFXIV packets are branded as low priority, which is something SE can work on
if wtfast, battleping, pingzapper can work wonders also support the claim there is something with packet structure, as crypted vpn packets are different and run on different ports > thus losing low priority status

another thing they could work on is making their own "squarefast/squareping/whatever" vpn, i mean they already have datacenter, and not all of the player base would use it, should not be a problem for them

i'm sure there are a lot of other ways they can "fix" the lag ...

[theflo84]

@fix your internet ppl
why do you think SE can not do anything with lag ?
if other games works better going through the same choke points could mean that FFXIV packets are branded as low priority, which is something SE can work on
if wtfast, battleping, pingzapper can work wonders also support the claim there is something with packet structure, as crypted vpn packets are different and run on different ports > thus losing low priority status

another thing they could work on is making their own "squarefast/squareping/whatever" vpn, i mean they already have datacenter, and not all of the player base would use it, should not be a problem for them

i'm sure there are a lot of other ways they can "fix" the lag ...

I... think I love you. lol.



Exactly this.

I would even go so far as to say that SE is the only one how can solve these problems.
At least for PS3 useres who have Problems.

Sure... everyone (on PC) could now buy such an programm but why should we do that if we
can / should force SE to do their job and let them solve the Problems...?

[Mailstrum]

i live out in the country the only internet connection we have is 3mbs DL .75mbs upload DSL. My connection is pretty much SHIT compaired to the USA internet standards. And titan HM is a joke. I use to lag bad on him really bad still beat him... I how ever had to call my ISP and get around a connection in Chicago that was having packet loss and connection drops. once i did that lag went away. I suggest doinga trace route finding where you are getting packet loss and see if your isp can route you a different way.

[Royze]

I purchased a year subscription to both wtfast and battleping. I tried them both out for a week each and got a lot of direction from service support of both service providers and my ISP.

If you're in the following locations, Battleping will be far superior than wtfast

1-21 Route through France and UK servers - choose the one with the lower ping.
21 and above route through Japan
1.Israel
2.UAE
3.Saudi
4.India
5.Pakistan
6.Egypt
7.Tunisia
8.Qatar
9.Bahrain
10.Kuwait
11.Jordan
12.Lebanon
13.Greece
14.Cyrpus
15.Turkey
16.Italy
17.Spain
18. Portugal
19.Slovenia
20.Serbia
21.Georgia
22.Uzbekistan
23.Kazakhistan
24.Russia

The rest of the EU and scandanavian countries will benefit more from Wtfast.

EDIT: Performance differences are drastic if your choose the right server. I used to dodge things like plumes and be across the arena by the time explosion went off and be dead. Now, If I'm out when they disappear, i don't get hit. Drastic changes. Can't imagine playing XIV without battleping.

[Tiggy]

This one bothers me so much. People come here expressing problems with lag latency etc. but when others try to give them possible solutions they rather continue having problems and keep complaining instead of trying a few different methods that seem to work for a large amount of players.
I'm not trying to say all people who have problems with this game are at fault etc. but there are dozens of people who don't have problems which means that SEs server are working. Could they be improved? Sure but that is not really the point. Every system can be optimized. That goes for your pc/isp as well.

Everyone here would rather gleefully ignore the fact that some of us have no problems at all. Then they like to gleefully ignore other things as well. Such as the simple fact that apps like WTFast and Battleping work even for those of us where distance shouldn't be a problem. They like to ignore that those two facts even though they mean it definitely isn't the server structure because if it was everyone would have the problem and those programs would have negligible effects for those of us close to the server. They would rather come here crying about it despite all evidence pointing to a routing issue on some network node many of us go through. There is boat loads of evidence, but no one cares.