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

[LunarEmerald]

This. Just because some may be open to the idea of leaving their friends behind (if they had any at all) does not necessarily mean others are willing to throw their friendships away to transfer off.

Then increased ping is the price you pay for making that decision. Because you're playing on a data center that's not meant for your location.

[thorkellthetall]

Your fall is my gain? I went from 90+ to under 40. Kinda like it.

Nerd, you still have to play with everyone else. Your party member's performance suffers as well. The entire NA region did not also move to CA.

[Sagittarii]

I logged on.

Looks like I'm connected to 204.2.229.92.

I get a 33ms average ping to this IP from Los Angeles.

[SeraphicRadiance]

Then increased ping is the price you pay for making that decision. Because you're playing on a data center that's not meant for your location.

A decision made at the time due to the fact that the connection was fine, as the person I quoted apparently did.

[Mhaeric]

I logged on.

Looks like I'm connected to 204.2.229.92.

I get a 33ms average ping to this IP from Los Angeles.

My FC buddy lives 30m from Sacramento and just told me they get a 14 ping. I'M SO JEALOUS!

[MeoTwister5]

I'm getting 170-180 from what used to be 200+. Western Pacific region.

I like it.

[Shougun]

And yet, they are getting another free transfer with extra bonus exp up to level 60, and gil and free time supposedly... It's on the lodestone right now. Quoted text below.

That's very nice. While I feel bad for those who may need to transfer I do recognize that now that SE has EU servers that they shouldn't base their /NA/ server designs on EU player perspective (as there is an entire server cluster for that already), it's nice that they're going at it on more time for those players though.

[Ryuko]

I'm on the East Coast (NYC)... was at a 20ish ms ping before the change, now at a 78ms ping. First thing I did upon logging in was queue up for Titan Ex with my buddies. There is a noticeable latency increase, but not enough for the game to be unplayable. In the grand scheme of things, 78ms isn't *that* bad. However, I've been 'spoiled' in that I always knew I had a *lot* of time to get out of AoEs due to my low latency. I knew exactly how greedy I could be without needing to move immediately. Now, with the higher latency, I'm going to have to retrain my brain to know how much time I have to cast or get out. I played around with the latency on landslide -- first, moving immediately, then slowly extending my time in it to the point where I knew I'd previously be able to get out (after finishing a cast). I got hit the final time. So, many of us will need to retrain our brains -- but it's definitely not unplayable, at least on my end. I think now is the best time they could have done this... it will give those of us with noticeable ping changes some time to adjust our brains and muscle memory before facing any serious content in Stormblood.

[Vespar]

That's very nice. While I feel bad for those who may need to transfer I do recognize that now that SE has EU servers that they shouldn't base their /NA/ server designs on EU player perspective (as there is an entire server cluster for that already), it's nice that they're going at it on more time for those players.

I actually think its great they are getting another set of worlds. They sound like they need it! Especially considering JP and NA already have 2-3 data centers each and EU only has 1... thats alot of folks for just one data center...

[Raikki]

also neolobby2.ffxiv.com is listed as 92.242.140.21

The DNS provider you're using has one of those "mistyped domain name" "help" features. The lobby hostname is neolobby02.ffxiv.com, but you omitted the 0 so it fell back to the provider's IP.