Quote Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang View Post
The answer could be right there in, "I currently play in Japan". Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
Actually, if you read my other posts you'd know I stated I played their MMOs in both Japan and America and I haven't seen a difference in response times. However currently, I play XI from Japan.

This was fixed by having the NMs become unable to be claimed for a certain amount of seconds overall when they pop.
You've kind of twisted facts here -- This was implemented specifically to try combat automated claims, i.e bots.

You're using an example that had many years to be balanced and also doesn't relate to this issue currently.
Actually, this wasn't a problem even in 2003. The only server related issues they had in 2002 was stability, not latency related. This is why we were given a free period as well as refunds due to how unstable the servers were. Also, FMO was released 3 yearsish after FFXI it also didn't have the latency issue FFXIV does, why? Neither game used a serverside interface with poorly optimized servers.