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

[Aethaeryn]

...well not really. In truth, that 30ms ping from you, an east coast user, ought to be sufficient to get one and all who are whining a bout lengthy pings to stop whining about SE and go talk to their ISP about bad routing. It won't, of course, but it's proof, as if it were needed, that bad routing is the main issue people face.

It's not proof of anything. It's impossible to get 30ms from NYC to Sacramento. NYC to Montreal would be about 30ms. As often as I've seen people here and reddit go run speedtest and claim that's their ping to the servers, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what she did. But if she wants to screenshot a traceroute to prove me wrong, I'll believe it. Go read the big ping thread on reddit - Several NYC people that said anywhere from 85-95. Using a VPN to get a nearly straight route to the servers gives me 86-90, and I'm in Buffalo. I'm getting 130 without it because of aforementioned bad routing.

[SpiritMuse]

Go read the big ping thread on reddit

If I ping the address in that thread, I get a ping of around 230. From Europe.

[Ama_Hamada]

It's not proof of anything. It's impossible to get 30ms from NYC to Sacramento. NYC to Montreal would be about 30ms. As often as I've seen people here and reddit go run speedtest and claim that's their pingto the servers, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what she did. But if she wants to screenshot a traceroute to prove me wrong, I'll believe it. Go read the big ping thread on reddit - Several NYC people that said anywhere from 85-95. Using a VPN to get a nearly straight route to the servers gives me 86-90, and I'm in Buffalo. I'm getting 130 without it because of aforementioned bad routing.

It is likely old data to the montreal data center, 30 ping is realistic there.

Anyways, game would be playable on 100-200 ping if it was not for this:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ues-Irrelevant!

Just fix the coding and I am sure people will notice and make many happy. It is just the move is making people notice this issue more, like Benediction taking longer to trigger and easier to notice.

They can split the worlds 50/50 and give notice some months prior and enable free transfers for everyone in NA. You can decide with your friends and FCs where to go or stay. But there will be again ppl who will whine like always.
I don't see it happening anytime soon. They already spent money to open the new one. Can't see how they will budget one more right now. Maybe when 5.0 comes.

There be no need if they code the game better though, it makes a bigger difference then you think. I was really expecting a coding update with upgraded servers, because I thought old technology was the reason behind it.