SE: unless you fix these issues, I'm leaving...

[Tiggy]

I used to get these issues playing Aion, Perfect World Online,Tera and numerous other MMOs. FFXIV is a lot better than all of them lag-wise, so do I win a cookie?

Probably not, but you're a great foil to the whole "but these other games don't give me problems" argument. The only part that really matters is where the servers are located, where you're located, and what the pipes between A and B look like.

One player playing two games can have lag in game A but not game B.
Meanwhile player two lives somewhere else and gets no lag in either game A or B.
Also meanwhile player three lives somewhere where game A and B both show lag.

It doesn't matter who made the server, who runs the server, or what the game is. The only thing that matters is location.

[Sadana]

You've got 99 problems and lag ain't one?
Also (going by statement 6), you're turning into a Doman. May want to get that checked... xD

[Alistaire]

your wall of text made me blind

no TL;DR ver?

ITT: point form posts are now considered "wall of text"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[Miitan]

Probably not, but you're a great foil to the whole "but these other games don't give me problems" argument. The only part that really matters is where the servers are located, where you're located, and what the pipes between A and B look like.

One player playing two games can have lag in game A but not game B.
Meanwhile player two lives somewhere else and gets no lag in either game A or B.
Also meanwhile player three lives somewhere where game A and B both show lag.

It doesn't matter who made the server, who runs the server, or what the game is. The only thing that matters is location.

JUST GIVE ME A COOKIE ALREADY! *angrylala*

[ZephyrMenodora]

I'm not talking just about lag, I need a service to even log in. Are you saying you had to pay for services like WTfast on other games to play at all? All games get lag at times but this is over the top.

The "just leave" argument is juvenile and really won't help Square catch up to netflix to deal with problems. When people buy things like collectors editions it was because they wanted to play the game. There was no warning that the game would not be accessible to the degree it was when I bought this.

I sincerely doubt refunds are available for people that had played the game but are sick of the extra 6 dollars a month to log in.

Either way I cancelled my auto renewal this morning.

[Bixby]

JUST GIVE ME A COOKIE ALREADY! *angrylala*

Tiggy can't control how long the cookie takes to get to you once it's left her possession.

[Iolair_Silverwing]

Great thread mocking people with lag issues... You do know that backbone providers are to blame for most of it... And that it is SE's responsibility to deal with them... Seeing as SE is paying them for the service that allows our isp's to connect to their servers.

Actually, I never made any mention of any lag, or made fun of any persons RL issues, other than my own
Parody thread? Maybe.. But not to mock anyone in our community intentionally, more like to be the a-hole who makes a joke in the serious crowd to lighten the atmosphere

[Miitan]

I'm not talking just about lag, I need a service to even log in. Are you saying you had to pay for services like WTfast on other games to play at all? All games get lag at times but this is over the top.

The "just leave" argument is juvenile and really won't help Square catch up to netflix to deal with problems. When people buy things like collectors editions it was because they wanted to play the game. There was no warning that the game would not be accessible to the degree it was when I bought this.

I sincerely doubt refunds are available for people that had played the game but are sick of the extra 6 dollars a month to log in.

Either way I cancelled my auto renewal this morning.

If you need a service even to log in, you've got serious ISP issues and you need to get them to resolve it but if you're leaving anyway, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[ZephyrMenodora]

LOL. Never seen a community so excited to get rid of players while "Is this game dying?" threads are on page 1. Good luck!

[CGMidlander]

What a dumb post. I don't think it should be my job to call Comcast / Verizon / whatever other services don't work to ask that FxIV work without paying for WTFast, or any individuals. Square should be making sure large volumes of players are taken care of by hashing this out themselves.

I've already wasted far too much time to get to play at all, and it really is a turnoff when FFXIV is the only game I have ever played with these problems. At some point it really is the game, and not me.

There is a reason why ISPs has tech support. Sometimes issues do arise and if an ISP's client suspects that there is something the ISP can do on their end to alleviate it, they have a way to work things out with the ISP.

The fact that you can't log in without a VPN strongly suggests that the normal route your ISP has to SE's servers isn't ideal. This isn't SE's problem to fix.