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

[Belhi]

"Hey these people are trying to ask for better conditions because something screwed then up! How dare they! Everyone needs to accept my comfortable misery!"

I am not miserable. That is kind of the point.

Hey, I am trying to sympathise. No one likes it when things are lost. That's why nerfs are never popular with the people being nerfed even when they are fair. However the server move was needed and honestly I am not sure they could have done it without effecting people to some extent at least. Feel free to vent but really its probably unrealistic to expect any dramatic responses to this issue immediately cause as I said, the game is still very playable.

Hopefully they will consider this issue and look at ways of improving things. I certainly won't complain because that would be beneficial to me. But such changes take time, investigation and resources and SE generally doesn't talk about things till they know its going to work since people generally take anything said as a promise. Add to the fact they will be pretty busy with the whole expansion thing and making sure all the new server set up is working fine, plus the inventory upgrade they are planning, and we likely won't see any real progress on this issue for at least months.

I get your pissed and sure, make a point of wanting better but from those used to this, our point is that the game is quite playable and enjoyable still and this move was needed. The reality for at least probably the rest of this year is that you will need to adapt if you want to play the game.

[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.

[LunarEmerald]

I went from 64 ms to 54 ms. Texas here. Hardly a change.

[LunarEmerald]

Honestly speaking unless you're a progression raider that provides top percentile numbers, it's not a big deal and it's not going to ruin the game for you.

[Makeda]

Basically... the new servers are close to Silicon Valley. Just outside of our "this stuff is silly expensive so sucks to be you" radius of influence, in Sacramento.

That is basically the best bang for your buck you can get unless you go to Mexico (Guadalajara) or Canada (Montreal) and get... almost as good...

Anywhere else, except maybe Seattle... is going to be subpar.

Like it or not, the USA is a bit of a technology backwater, that has the odd distinction of also having the technology 'capital' of the world... in the form of the San Francisco Bay Area. But we are a bubble, and even we have sub-standard internet compared to basically everywhere but perhaps Syria...

There just are not good choices. The USA is too big and too unwilling to invest in infrastructure, and sees the internet as a matter of 'private business' rather than as a 'common utility' so we just... don't keep up with what everyone else is used to...

Moving to a 'central location'?

This "IS" the central location. Not geographically, but in terms of infrastructure.

[Kurando]

Issue is, we were told centralized. Which in USA ever since the days of Diablo 1, Ultima Online etc... having "East and West" coast servers DID matter. So having one mid central as was told. Fine, we would all be in the middle.

I'm not sure that players were ever told that the servers would be centrally located. Even the official post regarding the move only states that they would stay on NA soil, nothing about mid central.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ter-Relocation

[LunarEmerald]

Making a fuss about an on-going problem only when it's an inconvenience to you.

Plenty of people on the west coast had to deal with subpar pings before and now the shoe is on the other foot.

[Shurrikhan]

snip.

It definitely seems to queue following abilities with a lower percentage of the internal cooldown than other MMOs, such that throughput/uptime is penalized at a surprisingly low ping (~80+) compared to the game's GCD (not to mention its tickrate...). The amount of commands it drops also seem fairly high. Without WTFast, I get several per fight, whereas I have no memory of any input loss outside of massive lag spikes in WoW across many years of play, and have seen very, very few in BDO, BnS, GW2, PSO, etc.

I'm not sure which annoys me more, honestly, the polling frequency / tickrates and however that might restrict the kinds of mechanics we might eventually see (e.g. fading percentile effects), or how long we're waiting for each confirmation in order to queue consecutive abilities. Overall, it feels sluggish. Not badly so at sub-100 ms, just comparatively.

[Atreyu]

No thank you.

[Fourbestintoner]

There is, LoL servers have a central location.


There is no logic behind california beside saving cost.