Red Ring of Death!

[Sephirah]

So, I see a lot of people complaining about getting hit while outside of the red, and I just gotta say, there is something WRONG with your connection.

I know everyone complaining about it inexplicably has 5+ years in IT experience, but news flash, just because you can connect to the googles, and netflix, does not mean your internet is flawless.

There IS a delay, nobody is disputing that, but if you are out of the red when it finishes casting, you WON'T get hit. If you are, then you need to troubleshoot your connection, or get a better one.

I don't know what OP's purpose was with this topic.

This:

Nobody is saying that lag doesn't exist people. It does, we all know it does. But there is a big difference between the servers lagging during prime time or some other issue and this. The former will affect most if not all of your raid, not just 1 person.

I'm not saying SE shouldn't work on improving issues (don't worry they can't afford to do that, they are working their butts off). But most people experiencing this issue are not troubleshooting their own connections, they use justifications like, WoW doesn't lag so I don't need to check or change anything on my end. And I'm sorry, but that just isn't true.

Hopefully the people following this thread will try some of the things people have suggested in this thread to see if it improves their situation at all, even if they think it's SE's fault.

I'm sorry if I somehow offended anyone, but people need to do basic troubleshooting before they blame SE. And sorry to say, but yes, if you are playing in a part of the world that isn't near the servers that they launched, then you need to either use tunneling software to get a more direct connection, or wait for them to launch servers in your area, which isn't cheap.

NOBODY IS BLAMING YOU!

People keep looking at this like we are blaming the player, and that isn't true, your connection is not you.

I think people are irritated with being told (by people other than SE) to go jump through hoops to make a game that they pay for work well when they do not experience the same set of issues (or any) in other games. I don't have much of a problem with lag in this game, but I can tell you that if I did, I would be willing to submit a ticket to SE, but I'm not going to sit here and play liaison between SE and my ISP for hours/days/weeks to try and resolve it. It's not worth the effort. SE needs to break radio silence on this issue one way or the other. Even if all they do is make another RFI thread for people to dump traceroutes and pathpings in, they need to address the community.

Fair enough, once again I just want to say I'm not trying to place blame on anyone. Was just pointing out 2 things, that AoEs are infact avoidable, it's just as damaging to the games reputation and potential if nobody even gives it a chance because they see things like those old beta 3 gifs floating around; and to point out that there MAY be a solution for people without waiting for SE.

[Thriar]

Then explain why this only happens in this game and not other games? You sound pretty smart.

[Sephirah]

Then explain why this only happens in this game and not other games? You sound pretty smart.

You'll need to call your ISP to troubleshoot that. Unless you feel like calling me, but I charge 9.99/min

[Sunoske]

You'll need to call your ISP to troubleshoot that. Unless you feel like calling me, but I charge 9.99/min

That.... is not a bad price!

[KiriA500]

Then explain why this only happens in this game and not other games? You sound pretty smart.

Lag isn't exclusive to FFXIV, cool guy.

[Thriar]

Lag isn't exclusive to FFXIV, cool guy.

Oh I know. But it is seriously the worst here. This fight(I'll link something non-wow since you think everyone that has a critique of the game comes from there) would not be doable on 14's servers. You don't have to watch the whole thing but I please watch at least 2 minutes of it. I'm in this video, Tristann.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDkeHbbL5Y

[RynaultB]

Then explain why this only happens in this game and not other games?

This OP, I've played countless other games online, MMOs what have you. But this is the only game where not just latency but the communication between server and client are terrible. I can't tell you how many times I've been out or the "Red Ring of Death" and I still get hit some times LONG before the ability even went off.

Never had this kind of problem playing other MMOs, especially the F2P ones.

I play from China, lag is to be expected playing on NA servers. But when I play WoW the game runs smooth. And before anyone "White Knights" it up about "Connections" (they had these same problems back in 1.0, they should be fixed by now). "Its a new MMO, gotta give it time". Its 2013 not 2000. Technology is better, thus they should have better server hardware to be played on.

And their server coding is terrible with the built in server delay. I could care less if they put a Chocobo in the CSS on their lodestone website. I see they spent more time doing that then making the code with commuting between servers and client.

P.S. As well as the 1000 character max on a single post... terrible.

[Baneus]

This OP, I've played countless other games online, MMOs what have you. But this is the only game where not just latency but the communication between server and client are terrible. I can't tell you how many times I've been out or the "Red Ring of Death" and I still get hit some times LONG before the ability even went off.

Never had this kind of problem playing other MMOs, especially the F2P ones.

I play from China, lag is to be expected playing on NA servers. But when I play WoW the game runs smooth. And before anyone "White Knights" it up about "Connections" (they had these same problems back in 1.0, they should be fixed by now). "Its a new MMO, gotta give it time". Its 2013 not 2000. Technology is better, thus they should have better server hardware to be played on.

And their server coding is terrible with the built in server delay. I could care less if they put a Chocobo in the CSS on their lodestone website. I see they spent more time doing that then making the code with commuting between servers and client.

P.S. As well as the 1000 character max on a single post... terrible.

The major difference being that Blizzard actually (after quite a few years of ignoring the issue) altered the mechanics in WoW to cater to 200+ms latency. If SE keeps to the same timeframe expect the issue to be around for at least another 7 years.

[Starlord]

The trouble isn't the overworld ( like your gif :P), it's the instances that they are complaining about ( though I have very little issues on the subject)

[MisakiSatomi]

The internet overheated.