The state of OCE without cross region travel (feedback)

[Tigerlilley]

Not really

Yes, really. My ping to NA is 146ms, JP a little less. To Light, its over 300.

[LaylaTsarra]

Yes, really. My ping to NA is 146ms, JP a little less. To Light, its over 300.

I play on all regional centers and I live in NA East Coast and the game plays just fine for me.

[Tigerlilley]

I play on all regional centers and I live in NA East Coast and the game plays just fine for me.

Great!
Unsure how that's relevant to OCE players.

[LaylaTsarra]

Great!
Unsure how that's relevant to OCE players.

I play on OCE too on Sophia so I have a good feel for what is going on

[Tigerlilley]

I play on OCE too on Sophia so I have a good feel for what is going on and my character is a transfer.

Friend, have you ever seen a world map? You're in NA, the middle of EU and OCE. Your ping is not relevant to how oce would play in EU and vice versa.

I literally just told you the difference in ping for someone in OCE

[LaylaTsarra]

Friend, have you ever seen a world map? You're in NA, the middle of EU and OCE. Your ping is not relevant to how oce would play in EU and vice versa.

I literally just told you the difference in ping for someone in OCE

Yes i've seen a world map and I play on Sophia in OCE, Spriggan on Chaos in the EU, Chocobo on Mana in Japan and the game plays just fine.

[Sindele]

Yes i've seen a world map and I play on Sophia in OCE, Spriggan on Chaos in the EU, Chocobo on Mana in Japan and the game plays just fine.

This exchange is precisely why every American should consider it their duty to vote yes for tax increases to fund education.

[Nestama]

I play on all regional centers and I live in NA East Coast and the game plays just fine for me.

Mate, you need to be in Australia to understand Tigerlilley's point. I also live in Australia and tried playing on an EU DC. The difference between playing on NA and EU is night and day. In NA, while my ping is high, I can still do a rotation mostly perfectly (can even double weave and dodge an AoE right as it goes off on a blue moon. It's crazy!). Whereas when I played on an EU DC, it was awful. Actions felt extremely delayed to the point where RDM was hell to play (imagine hardcasting Verthunder/aero despite having the Dualcast buff. I felt like I was back in ARR August 2013 PS3 days when I'd still hardcast Flare despite using Swiftcast).

[LaylaTsarra]

Mate, you need to be in Australia to understand Tigerlilley's point.

I won't dispute your experience and yes I do not live in New Zealand or Australia but I play on Sophia and my game play seems fine and the distance for me at least from the East Coast is 14,049 km Distance from Washington DC to New Zealand. Japan is considerably closer at 10,894 km Distance from Washington to Tokyo and the game has always played fine for me there as well.

This is the rub, though. The reason we don't have cross region is because of Japan not wanting us there. It was stated as a difference in "values". Which, fine. Everyone speaks english, NA would be fine. However, the Aus/NZ communities that have spent the last 9 years on the Japan DC will still have a lot of friends there from SEA who didn't move over so I don't expect them to write off the JPN datacentre as easily as I am.

Well it does make you wonder about the motivations for delaying DC travel everywhere and you may be right about Japan not wanting others there I don't really know. I play in Japan although granted not as much as I used to since I've gone to other servers I enjoy more but the Japan community has always seemed nice to me.