Thread: .3 Second Positional Update Delay (Requesting Dev Response)

Originally Posted by Tupsi

Considering a full PC upgrade fixed my issues with this? It's not 'denial', it's the simple fact in my personal experience it's clear there's more variables than: "It's SE's fault." In my upgrade I didn't even change manufacturers, using newer parts by the same people. Nor did I touch my ISP package or modem/router.

I your original hardware met the minimum requirements, it's not an upgrade that should have been necessary. If the game does not function correctly with the hardware it's advertised to work with, that is not the user's problem. It is SE's. The fact that you elected to buy your way out of the broken segment of the population does not mean that there is no broken segment.

You claim it's impossible for the game to be broken for some people but not others. That's a ridiculous claim. Games are constantly, routinely broken for only certain people.

Originally Posted by Bixby

You claim it's impossible for the game to be broken for some people but not others. That's a ridiculous claim. Games are constantly, routinely broken for only certain people.

Exactly. Isn't that pretty much what variables you'd have to consider being other than, "it's not my fault"?

If your original hardware met the minimum requirements, it's not an upgrade that should have been necessary.

That's the thing - On my old PC I could play XIV 1.x no problem (aside the obvious design issues), but ARR? Nothing but issues in the regard of this situation. So I got my fiance to build me a brand new pc and poof - every problem I had with ARR vanished. If I told him to go part by part I could have pinpointed it, but I know the most noticable upgrade was my Network Hardware (new mobo) and new GPU. The CPU was actually a "downgrade" if you believe the whole Intel > AMD.

The dance-style combat is broken for me. I've been hit by an AOE from across the room.

No, I DON'T have a great computer. But if the game runs on it I should be able to play.
The thing that gets me is there is no other option. I can't say, "This part is an issue for me, so I'll change to a different job and still get to contribute." In FFXI, I could stay off the front lines as WHM and I could throw up Stoneskin and Blink.
In FFXIV you dance or die. There is no job I can play where I can avoid this glaring issue, and it's not like FFXI where something goes wrong but I can hold out. These things are often insta-kill situations.
The first dungeons were so much fun where using my actual class abilities could get us out of a bind. The further end-game it gets the more it gets to all look alike. "Dodge the skills or you die, the game".
I want my job abilities to be what makes the difference, not whether I can afford hundreds of dollars in upgrades for my computer.