Yoshi P addresses lag. Its time to deliever...

[TeaTimeBear]

Premise: If Square Enix's servers are rubbish (P), then they should be equally rubbish for everyone (Q).
Premise: The lag is not equally rubbish for everyone (¬Q).
Conclusion: Therefore it is not the servers that are rubbish (¬P via Modus tollens).

QED: It's not SE, it's you or your bad computer or your bad ISP or your bad self.

You're great! I like people like you.

"It's not happening to me. Therefore it's your fault, your ISP, your computer. Etc."

*Suddenly you are randomly afflicted like the rest of us*

"This is a major issue and I think SE should say something!"

Best part about coming here to find support? Is other people will blame the consumer, it never ceases to amaze me. This is like an ATM eating my card and my bank telling me "yeah well it's your fault for using our ATM. Ya know the account you payed for. You should fix the ATM machine yourself."

Yup because we the user are as large and powerful as the people we have been forced to get in touch with.
:|

[Yshnal]

I agree there are plenty server-side issues, but you're saying you get punted 5+ seconds after an LS castbar/animation are completed?

Would you mind posting some pingtest results just for curiosity?

Exactly.

And there's no purpose to post a pingtest for this one, as it doesn't happen always and, as I explained already, you can see that it's not client lag by the fact that the server itself doesn't kill you after the hit. If it was client lag you would see the same animation but you would appear dead at the bottom of the pit when the server had made its calculations and had told you "bad luck", as you were hit. It doesn't, so it proves that it's the server that doesn't know what the F is doing sometimes and tells the client whatever it feels like at the moment ("you got hit but I don't kill you, GG").

It's as if the server mixes the order of some threads without putting a priority/order on them and ends calculating some things when they no longer matter, mixing outdated data with "current" data that it has about something else. If it was just a simple delay you would see the "correct" succesion of things happening, even if late, not a mix of them. And I guess that this happens too sometimes when some people die stupidly, as I highly doubt that it just happens to "save" us.

[necrosis]

But, muh lag!

If all of the above fails, it could just be general internet traffic in your area.

The more people trying to force send/receive data requests through your nearest exchange the slower things are going to become, in some cases the following may help you, however this isn't guaranteed to work;

WTFast: http://www.wtfast.com/
Battleping: http://www.battleping.com/
Pingzapper : http://pingzapper.com/

If these companies offer a 'server' try connecting to the 'Montreal' or Canada based servers (As this is where the NA/EU database centers are located for FFXIV:ARR). The rest are located in Japan.

What is your solution all wise one for those playing on PS3/PS4?

[Dhex]

ROFL. There are many many post in many more threads, wich show, whats going on.

Just a fast example:





The two statistics are highlighting the both nodes with the most packet loss. The red lines are the packet loss. I've seen another one in our fc forum, that has a node with 40% packet loss.

And now: go and play with your Barbie and stop flaming people because you don't have any problem, so it doesn't exist.

This is the only pertinent post in this entire thread.


Level 3 is the CDN service that Square Enix uses to deliver content to it's NA & EU users - they have had issues with nodes with 40-60% packet loss since January 3rd 2014.

Using a VPN service allows you to bypass the bad nodes.

If you don't have lag - congratulations you're being routed cleanly.

Many people are not - this is regardless of the quality of their ISP and completely out of both their individual control, and their ISP's control.

Square needs to get on these guys to fix their network. http://www.level3.com/

[necrosis]

We follow the same rules. When the action finishes executing (cast bar, or if instant, as soon as it's pressed), targets are determined. This is the same for everyone.

Tell that to any WHM who has used benny and have it hit cooldown as well as the person that it was cast on hit the floor.

[Clavaat]

Square needs to get on these guys to fix their network. http://www.level3.com/

Tbh, they probably are already. I know several people in IT who worked for partners of Level-3 and getting anything done with them has been a nightmare, but as a company, SE would not want to call them out publicly as it would reflect badly on their relations. That being said you are absolutely correct here.

[Melithea]

I'm not following your thought process. Ideally I'm just looking for a person with a B-A rated ISP on pingtest to post results and state that they are having problems despite having an exceptional ISP. It's really not that hard to comprehend.

Here's my Pingtest and my tracert directly to Ultros. My ISP is Cox Communications and I live ~280 miles from Montreal.

[ReplicaX]

QED: It's not SE, it's you or your bad computer or your bad ISP or your bad self.

SE's controls its own servers. They changed the polling rate in a server maintenance. Many players were fine prior to this change and now after experience packet loss from Level 3.

How does that take SE out of the possibility exactly? Go look at the tech forums and other posts here. Players have spent over a month trying to resolve this issue.

[WHS]

Even on SUCCESSFUL Titan EX runs, every time Titan does his sumo stomp, on my client everyone is knocked back over the edge and then runs across mid air. Obviously on their client it displays with them not in mid air over the edge. Even when the game isn't lagging enough to make moves undodgable it just looks silly/embarrassing a lot of the time.

Just had a friend rage quit and cancel his account last night because of the lag problem with dodging AoEs. I've known him for years, and played enough action games with him to know it isn't a hand/eye coordination OR ISP problem.

I don't understand why more AOE attacks are not like when Titan lands from a jump... make it high dmg if you are in the center, and lower from the edge. If they can't get latency right, at least make it a tiny bit more unforgiving.

Don't you mean tiny bit more forgiving?

[ValkyrieL]

I guess lag is on certain datacenters cuz since i started playing, I got 0 lag anywhere.