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

[DRHaymaker]

Unless your ping IS REALLY bad (300+) then it's not an excuse for getting hit by aoes. That's just poor reaction time. It just means you have less leeway to screw up.

Did you purposely miss the analogy? Now you're just avoiding the point and straw manning.

[SpookyGhost]

Tell me where SE will get that money bro

Square Enix is a highly profitable video game company.

[WistariaEyes]

My ping went from 120 to 200.
I am so upset about this whole thing. I still can't believe it's actually happening.

The thing is I would normally just move to EU and forget all about this.
However, my SO is in the US and if I make him move to EU he wouldn't get to enjoy the game. (he tested it and got around 250-300 ms on EU server). And if I stay then I would be the one who wouldn't get to enjoy the game.
We both preordered Stormblood and have been excited to play together. Now I honestly don't know what to do and it's killing me inside that things went the way they did.

I know that people keep saying that the game is playable at 220ms or less, but it just isn't enjoyable. I used to be able to pull off 6 Ruin IIIs during DWT every single time, and now I barely make it to 5. Attempting to go for 6 almost always results in losing DWT...it just feels bad and not fun at all.

[NovaLevossida]

I guess it makes me sad that if we believe the 200 ping = the way the game is designed is true, players with ping below 50 still can't dodge ground marked AoEs. That said, I don't think 200 ping is acceptable in a modern online title, but then again my ping is nowhere near that high.

[Rysir]

In maryland

Gone from 30 to 113, RIP split second dodging I knew you well.

[bounddreamer]

I'm not sure what it was before for certain, I don't have it recorded anywhere, but I did ping about a year and a half ago or so and I want to say it was in the ~180-~220 range.

I pinged it just now and I'm at 37ms, 0 packet loss. Omg this is awesome. I'm getting out of aoes that would have hit me before.

[RaijinSupreme]

This actually won't chase any new players away. This is only affecting all the old, entitled people who likes to cry about things before seeing what actual outcome will be. The servers just went back up today, and its very possible that the latency will get better.

Just calm down and breathe a bit.

[Hasrat]

The ideal thing would really have been east coast and west coast servers.

The ideal thing would be to have 50 different data centers on each continent.

But the real world has limitations.

[Saito_S]

The ideal thing would be to have 50 different data centers on each continent.

But the real world has limitations.

It does. But as much as I have been giving east coasters crap for making SUCH a big dramatic deal out of their distance from the data center, which now matches the distance from the DC that myself and many other west coast players have been playing with for 3+ years...

Duelle is right. Regardless of how overdramatic people are or aren't being about the shoe basically being on the other foot, having one east DC and one west DC would make everyone pretty happy. And they wouldn't be the first company running an online game to do so, had they done so. Yes, it's more expense, obviously, but it's not an unreasonable expense. Given their size, is there any doubt that simply doubling the cost of this server move (to set up two new servers, instead of one) is something that SE COULD afford? I'd be dubious of any claim they can't. They just choose not to. Which I think is a shame; I think it would have been a good investment for the game. But eh, SE obviously disagrees, and they have a proven track record of being stingy with how much money and resources they are willing to give to Yoshi and his team.

[Hasrat]

Why can't this just be the first step in making that happen? Who's to say they're not already working on expanding further?

I mean, sure, they're probably not planning anything immediately. But I'm not one to expect them to churn out everything they might need all at once.