Quote Originally Posted by Bunsen View Post
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To expand on this, many of the issues people are experiencing are NOT client-side OR server-side. What is actually happening is people are experiencing packet loss on the route to the servers, which, thanks to the terrible American network infrastructure, often passes through a node that can't handle the traffic. Level 3 Communications is particularly notorious for this, and the reason FFXIV gets hit by connection issues so much is because Level 3 has a node particularly close to where the servers are located (Montreal) that is especially bad. Thus, while it's not your fault if you're lagging (unless it actually is), it's not SE's fault most of the time either.

On a slightly relevant note, the servers are where they are for several reasons, one of which is the cost of such servers.