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[Riardon]

Excuse me? Where else can South America play?

On the Antarctica data centre. Best cooling for severs in the world.

[Raskbuck]

On the Antarctica data centre. Best cooling for severs in the world.

It's crazy enough to work!

[Riardon]

If se decides to have 2 data centers, 1 on east coast, and another on west coast, how is it going to work though? Which worlds will be in data center 1 or 2? It will still be the same problem in the end though? Like say Gilgamesh on east coast, and Balmung on west coast, what is going to happen to the people who live on the east and west but on those worlds?

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.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

So.....exactly like what EU players have been subject too?.....They can either leave their friends for better ping, or stay with worse ping....

This is my dilemma atm.

I'm sitting at 200ms on Byrn coming from the UK, compared to 35ms on Odin, and all the friends I started the game to play with are on Byrn. I'd love the best of both worlds, being able to stay at a speedy home and be able to guest into another world to see my friends and vice versa, but sadly FFXIV's world structure isn't going to work like that.

Sucky situation and it makes me long for Guild Wars 1's setup.

[KeaneR]

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.

Ping can't be the only thing affecting this. I'm on the west coast of England and after reading your post I tested this on my SMN. My ping went from 90+ to 180+, yet I could previously only get 5 Ruin IIIs off during DWT and I can now get 6 comfortably. Strange!

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Ping can't be the only thing affecting this. I'm on the west coast of England and after reading your post I tested this on my SMN. My ping went from 90+ to 180+, yet I could previously only get 5 Ruin IIIs off during DWT and I can now get 6 comfortably. Strange!

There was packet loss before reported thanks to level 3's hideous network.

[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.

[Kyouki]

I did. That's why the serves moved closer to me. Mailed SE the head and everything. Now it's your turn to deal.

So when i send them your head, i'll get my ping back? Ok, let the hunger games begin

[Kuroyasha]

Here's the thing, going from a 50ms ping to 100ms ....

Going from 50 to 100 is not unnoticeable. It is very noticeable when your ping doubles and you go for high performance consistently. But i won't repeat what I already said on page 9.

[Makeda]

As Pence notes this might just be in my head, but thew 43ms ping makes me feel like I move "too fast". I am now over running or spinning because things are done before I expect them to be. I suspect I will be used to this in a few days, and the people on the other side of the equation will get used to that soon as well.