No plans to fix the atrocious netcode?

[Unruhe]

So, this thread got locked with a semi-canned response telling everyone in it to go post in the website feedback forum instead. I guess that means the piss-poor 300ms client polling that can and does absolutely ruin the game for (some) players isn't a concern for the devs?

Between this and the "Yeah, combat kind of sucks, but we balanced the game around our clunky, cumbersome, unresponsive gameplay" reply to the off-GCD thread, it's good to know that nobody should be paying money for this game.

FFXIV is pretty, and it can be fun, but the simple fact remains that this game is, on a mechanical level, utterly inferior to a lot of other similarly-and-lesser-priced options on the market. ARR Developers really need to pull their heads out of their asses and address some core gameplay issues rather than stating "working as intended" or ignoring them outright.

If FFXIV ARR is working as intended, SE sure as hell didn't do a very good job. They should maybe consider firing most of the staff and remaking the OWAIT...

[Treble]

I honestly think that they simply feel that the slower/clunky gameplay with those delays is a signature for final fantasy now, and that they actually WANT it to stay that way. They easily coulda fixed all that shit back in the games development process if they really wanted to, lol.

[Dazusu]

If they wanted slow and clunky, they should have programmed it that way - not had it be a by-product of crap netcode and non-existent client prediction.

[Yamisniper]

i think its accepted as a bug

[Seraphe]

It's probably fine in Japan Datacenters so nothing to worry guys. The JP Community is fine

[Meleoffs]

It's probably fine in Japan Datacenters so nothing to worry guys. The JP Community is fine

Japan data centers use the same code as the NA datacenters. The only difference is that EU servers are based in NA and people in EU get 300 ping to servers they should be getting sub 100 to. I get 70ms to my server and have no issues with lag or ability delay at all (not including the animation delay that was intentional)

[RobotoInu]

Net-code seems fine. Mechanics are running as expected. GCD is acceptable.

Solution: Go play a different game if you don't like this one.

-RobotoInu

*EDIT* as for the ping. 300ms is still playable in an MMO. although, you may want to try other servers to test to see where you can get a better ping.

[Cairdeas]

I'm on a Japanese server, the only issue I have is when there is like 500 players in the zone at one spot.

[skillface]

Japan data centers use the same code as the NA datacenters. The only difference is that EU servers are based in NA and people in EU get 300 ping to servers they should be getting sub 100 to. I get 70ms to my server and have no issues with lag or ability delay at all (not including the animation delay that was intentional)

Oh you do, you just don't realize it. Thanks to the internal tick rate being 300ms, everyone has a bare minimum of an effective 300ms latency, regardless of where you live. Of course living outside of the US or Japan exacerbates the issue (to the point where if you're in Europe, Australia or any other area like that you're better off playing any other MMO, hell I get better performance with EVE Online as an Australian and the server is in LONDON).

Stop making excuses for SquareEnix. Other MMOs do NOT have this issue (other than SWTOR but even they managed to fix that I think, at least I haven't heard people complaining about it for ages, unless it's just because nobody plays it anymore).

"Well then move to a Japanese server" I hear you say. I was on Tonberry during Beta Phase 4, it wasn't much better than it is right now. Even though it's around 150ms to Japan vs. the 300ms to Montreal, you still have that internal 300ms to worry about, which (in the best case scenario) halves the benefit of playing on JP servers.

[M4Fade]

Dunno why they don't just come out with this one already xD

LOL. This!