Quote Originally Posted by RichardButte View Post
I realize that part of the issue stems from the servers being in Japan, but if that's the case, SE cannot simply resign to the notion that the game will always be slow and unresponsive for anyone outside of Japan.

They might as well just not release the game outside of the US, then, because the disconnect between pressing a button and having the action happen 2 seconds later is a deal breaker for me and will no doubt be the same for millions of other players, especially when we've been spoiled by games that don't suffer the same issues.
This also depends on how far you are from japan, I don't tend to get as much lag as those in the east coast. Honestly every game has this, if you want to play WoW in Europe you will get more lag, they do have european servers I dont get why they are not as great. Square Enix has servers in California (they did for back up for XI) they should implement some of their servers in California to fix this lag problem for the U.S., and if Euros have one too use Square Enix Europe in France.