Quote Originally Posted by FinagleABagel View Post
As best I can tell, laggers are simply laggers. The positional check isn't the primary issue. I live relatively close to the servers, so I have a pretty disgustingly awesome ping. I know that the EU datacenter is in Canada, which seems odd. I feel for the AU players, but long server distance is not particularly unusual for small player communities.
You're forgetting that we can all play other games and dodge mechanics without issue, and that other games had this same issue at launch (SW:ToR and WoW being largest examples) and their developers isolated and fixed the problem. AU and NZ players are always going to have some latency, which will mostly affect PVP, but what we have in this game is excessive.

Hell I can play Battlefield 3 on a server in the UK from my NZ connection and not have more than the odd lag spike now and then. That's the complete opposite side of the world from here and is technically more playable than FFXIV (because there are no game crushing issues stemming from my geographical position).