Quote Originally Posted by Vespar View Post
@OP
This happens to me every time the servers get even a tad bit congested. I am fairly certain its a bottle neck in traffic somehwre along the route that traffic is sent between the players and the server because if I turn on my VPN its perfectly fine.
FFXIV is a service, it should work.

Internet is a service it should work.

Needing a third service to run something that already requires 2 services, should be absolutely unnecessary. Suggesting it as a requirement is very backwards.

Imagine if every time you wanted to play FFXIV your power went out, and the power company refused to repair their services, and expected all their customers to buy and run power generators.

Using a vpn and not complaining to your ISP is literally you enabling them to provide you unsatisfactory service.

Square-Enix chose to move their servers to a location that would facilitate the usage of this pathway, so its just as much as their responsibility to contact the ISP as much as it is the customer.