Yoshi P's Statement on Network Delay/Packet Loss

[Kolsykol]

[url] although they do mention it's because Japanese players are having this issue at the moment...

I know that it sucks that it needed to affect them for them to take notice.
However...
It's not exactly like US publishers and studios tend to give a damn about EU players or people in Asia.
I know the OP is in the EU too so it's not directed at him specifically, but it's just that I see people get mad about this sometimes when this is how it works all the time in other games too.
If you're a US player you're prioritized over other regions and it can be hard to actually be heard by the devs if you're in the EU often times you just go ignored.
With Blizzard we even have worse forums with less features and sections and the mods are about as non-existent as they are on this forum it just seems like they ignore the existence of it altogether.

Not directed at EU support tho, I reached out to them many times when I still played Blizzard games and they were ALWAYS very helpful. Last time they even helped me recover my account without an ID since it had expired and I had Covid so couldn't get a new one for a while.
The EU Blizzard support went through quite a bit of hoops to help me which I greatly appreciated.
But outside of their EU support you're basically totally ignored as a EU player.
Not too surprising that JP players are listened to first and foremost in this case.

But yeah this is by far more greatest issue with FFXIV, you shouldn't need a VPN for it to be playable.
Funnily enough it was completely flawless the first couple of weeks after launch for me but then hell began.

[RobynDaBank]

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I'm actually Indian, playing on EU because it's the least ms for me. ^^; 150ms, while the rest are 250+ (OCE was 400 ). The ping reliance really cripples me because it even affects how I move out of AoEs in fights (P4S Phase 2 Act 1, I remember getting hit by the AoEs you have to dodge even if I was following my fellows accurately). It's just so saddening, I never had issues like this in WoW - funny enough I did have problems in Monster Hunter World - even though it should affect me worse there. Just frustrating...