[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[akaneakki]

PS3 is ancient in terms of technology now. Like I said though, everyone will always have gripes about the game but it doesn't matter if you enjoy it.

There is ''different'' enjoyment in this game. Some people RP, some raiding, some do all of it, some people just afk and do a roulette few times a week . What I'm saying is, there is so much a person can accept till it's no longer enjoyable. However, this game is fine to play with 100-200 ping, I've played with worse and it was fine. However improvements will always make something more enjoyable . Like some people said, it's silly to ''quit'' because they got 20-30 more ping.

[Vespar]

I have been raiding with 250~ ping and had no problems dodging AOEs, even Titan. The only time I get killed by AOEs is when I get really greedy but same thing happens even for people who have perfect ping. I do use Pingzapper (was using WTFast but they stopped accepting my PayPal for some reason) for better routing, though.

Anyway, I'm down to 190~ ping now but I doubt there will be noticeable changes in-game for me.

I'm pretty sure the Titan issue wasnt caused by my ping at the time but rather my ISP. (it was a crappy military-provided ISP and it was down more often than it was up, but when it was up, I didnt have much issue playing with my high ping. So all the 'Waaaah! I have 100-200ms ping now' cry-babies should really just wait until the servers come back up and then see if it really affects them.

(and yeah, I used a VPN for better routing tables also)

[Zumi]

I live in Oregon and my ping went from 108 to 50.

[ErryK]

does this mean dnc confirmed?

Dancing around connections? Seems more likely than you think.

[Zachary]

oh man, i went from ~60-70 to ~70-80

i cant raid now

[Chiramu]

There is ''different'' enjoyment in this game. Some people RP, some raiding, some do all of it, some people just afk and do a roulette few times a week . What I'm saying is, there is so much a person can accept till it's no longer enjoyable. However, this game is fine to play with 100-200 ping, I've played with worse and it was fine. However improvements will always make something more enjoyable . Like some people said, it's silly to ''quit'' because they got 20-30 more ping.

I don't think you understood what I was saying still, gripes are more then just ping.

[Blindfate]

I would take these tracert and ping results as a grain of salt at best.

Wait about three hours for the servers to (hopefully) come back up before doing anything drastic/crazy/stupid.

[Vhailor]

For someone who has been in this game for years with 200 ping, i feel no hindrance whatsoever, i can fight normally, even perform better than other sometimes, i can avoid red circle no problem, i didnt even feel lag at all, unless it went above 250ish.

In fairness, the 'feel' of latency is relatively subjective. While I agree that people are being drama queens, to an extent, I can definitely tell the difference between 100 and 190ms ping. Hell, I can tell the difference between wired and wireless mice, which is why I insist on wired mice for my computers. My ping to the Montreal servers was relatively low (I'm in Wisconsin), but I noticed input lag there, too. It was most noticeable while Gathering (sometimes I could swing my pickaxe more frequently; other times, there was a noticeable gap between when my last action finished and my next action could begin). I rarely noticed it in combat as well, particularly with things like Cleric's Stance.

That's not to say people can't get used to it, and it doesn't necessarily hinder AoE avoidance, but I don't think it's accurate to dismiss 100 to 190 ping as a trivial concern.

Edit / Addition:

Just get WTFast/Battleping.

WTFast / Battleping cannot magically improve latency generated by sheer distance. The only advantage these services provide is helping avoid 'bottlenecked' routing points. That can help to reduce problems when, say, Level 3 is the culprit, but it can't resolve the distance-added latency someone in Britain will be facing with this data centre move. It's incredibly disingenuous to suggest these paid VPN services designed for gaming can work miracles; they can't.

[BigTough]

This game was designed to be more than playable up to 200ping and even a little over. People are ignorant, their loss.

[Ayer2015]

If i can play GW2 at 100ping I can play FF14 at 82 now. It was nice have the server 4hrs away while it lasted.