I'll chime in like I did in the big thread.

On Comcast (which contrary to most people has been nothing short of extraordinary for me) I had 40ms and 0 packet loss when servers were in Canada. However, I'm not so naive to suggest others didn't have problems with the infamous L3 node.

That said since the server move, with 100% consistency I am unable to play this game post 7:30PM EST. It results in 200+ ms, 10%+ packet loss consistently every day, without fail. The issue is always with the San Jose CA NTT node, which is SE's responsibility to ensure is running efficiently as they are SE's chosen ISP partner.

I have resorted to Mudfish to be able to play this game. It sucks. I've never once needed a VPN to play ANY GAME over the course of 10+ years of gaming. Not once. Ever. I've had Comcast come out, I've talked to SE who gave me the runaround, and I've spoken with NTT NOC who confirmed that the only thing I can do is have SE contact them for breach of SLA because I am not NTT's customer, SE is.

The thing is, this type of stuff happens a lot, but other companies get it fixed. It's just not super common to hear about it.

Fun fact - I can connect to a AUSTRALIAN WoW server from the east coast with less ping than I can to FF14 post 7:30 PM. That should tell you something.