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

[LunaFaye]

I will have to quit too, if we are going by the speculations, my ping would be 15-20 and 0% packet loss. Prior my ping was around 230 and 44% packet loss on comcast, 183 and 21% packet loss on AT&T. Now I don't have any excuses anymore when I die because I stood intentionally in aoe's. Having such an improvement takes away the fun of gaming.

[Hestzhyen]

I'm in Cali and regularly played NIN at 90-100+ daily without really noticing anything. While this situation isn't ideal (it really should have been centralized I think), I honestly believe people on the east coast should be a-ok. It's the people in Europe I feel super bad about.

We might be okay, but we're still tired of nearly every online game hosting servers for the whole NA continent out in California... :P It was nice to have ~20 ping for a while. Oh well. Regardless of where the servers end up, my ping will go up. I just hope the location benefits more people than it hurts.

[ToppeHatte]

We might be okay, but we're still tired of nearly every online game hosting servers for the whole NA continent out in California... :P It was nice to have ~20 ping for a while. Oh well. Regardless of where the servers end up, my ping will go up. I just hope the location benefits more people than it hurts.

Oh yeah I totally understand that, just attempting to soothe the people on the east coast who are in panic mode at the moment. It's a really confusing move on SE's part but I'm 99% sure that so long as anyone who is worried actually on the NA continent, they'll be fine even if it'll take some adjustments.

[TarikD]

While double digit pings are a luxury, you feel the impact starting at 150 and above. A lot of will will get a ping increase, but it wouldn't pass a threshold where you'd even notice something. I feel confident that those in NA will be able to play as usual, possibly better due to the modern infrastructure of the new data center facility.

It is the EU players we have to feel for.

[swiss_Momo]

Potentially getting rid of a bunch of WoWfugees is a good thing though :^)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

While double digit pings are a luxury, you feel the impact starting at 150 and above. A lot of will will get a ping increase, but it wouldn't pass a threshold where you'd even notice something. I feel confident that those in NA will be able to play as usual, possibly better due to the modern infrastructure of the new data center facility.

It is the EU players we have to feel for.

Its not like they had a shiny new datacenter put in for them 2 years a- wait a second.

[Mekhana]

I went from 170ms to 309ms... I don't think the game will be playable for me anymore

I'm supposed to get an average of 120ms from Cali servers but the tracert indicates for some reason its bouncing all the way to Spain first.

[Legewiel]

Congratz on trying to insult someone who knows what they are talking about.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/204.2.229.9

The IP is now showing Michigan, where before the hop before tracert timed out was California. On top of the fact that I am a network engineer. So everyone can keep crying about California, or they can figure out it's not actually California.

That same page you linked have an article with that written "Accuracy rates on naming the city from an IP address vary between 50%-80%."

[LadyKianna]

I'm so bummed. I was so hoping for central or west coast. I will test and see how bad it is when servers are up. I already played with 160~ and now it'll jump to 200~ ;_;

Um, @MuseTraveller California IS on the west coast...

[Mhaeric]

My ping to Montreal was 25ms. My ping to Sacramento is 89ms... more than triple the amount. May have to quit the game if it is unplayable now.

Here's a little tongue in cheek and highly subjective table to help you, and others out:

Ping	Rating relative to FFXIV's needs
<10-20	Amaze-balls
20-40	Awesome-sauce
40-60	Terrific
60-80	Great
80-100	Good
100-120	Decent
120-140 Okay
140-160 Okay, but end game stuff may start to become difficult
160-180 Okay, but may have some issues dodging at times
180-200 Playable, but expect dodging issues
200-230 Playable, but expect frequent dodging issues
230+     Here is where you might want to consider other options such as ISP upgrade,
 checking ping to other data centers, etc.

So you basically went from awesome to good ping. I.e. "The game will be playable for you" is a massive understatement.