good bye FFXIV, thanks to the lag, you lost another customer.

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It matters because the minimal latency which FF XIV has does not come with an impact on gameplay.

The problem is that this game is not FFXI. There are plenty of mechanisms that will instantly kill you and have really short casting time and there is a lot of movement so saying it doesn't matter is a bit strange.
The thing is that players learned to deal with lag. Take titan plumes, in an ideal scenario there is enough time for you to get out when you move the moment you see the telegraphs. That is not however how players actually do it because that would kill you. What it is showing you on screen is later than on what is actually happening on the server. You can notice it even when the whole group moves together. It always shows you as being the first to move when in fact on the other screens you're moving at the same rate as everyone else.

The way players learned to deal with it is by moving preemptively. So yeah, lag does affect this game. Is not as slow as you say it is, there is a lot of movement and quick avoiding you have to do.