Quote Originally Posted by gamesmart View Post
Unfortunately, as Square Enix does not own any part of Level 3 Communications, which is one of the biggest roots of this problem, there is very little that they can do firsthand - they would have to pressure Level 3 from one side, while we as consumers pressure them from the other side, in order for anything to be done about it.
I am not talking about the routing issues here. The issues I am seeing is solely during patches and weekend traffic. It seems more like server congestion to me than Level 3's usual issues. No, this appears to be general server congestion. Not to mention the length of time its been taking the poor Duty Finder to reserve an instance after finding party members (1-6 minutes at times). This obviously isn't just the normal issue with routing here. If SE's servers are being this congested with a single patch, then perhaps its time to increase the amount of servers they have before 3.0 comes out and bombards us with even more players. (This feels very similar to the lag and 90k's I experienced at launch of 2.0. And it was alleviated when they increased the amount of servers back then.) So there are things that can be done about this.