Red Ring of Death!

[Sybreed]

lol I'm not saying that FFXIV is immune to lag and that their servers can't get bogged down from time to time, but when that happens, it's effecting everyone. When people complain that getting hit while out of the red is SE's fault and it isn't happening to anyone else in the raid, the problem is on their end, not SEs.



And how is their gif more relevant? It's old, and was made by someone with connection issues. I'll be more than happy to update this with similar gifs from dungeons when the servers are back up

If I have to explain why it is, it's already past the point where talking to you is something that can bear fruit. Think what you want.

[Sephirah]

Could you upload a youtube video of the Keeper of Halidom fight? (First boss in Wanderer's Palace)

Sure thing.

Edit: Thinking about this, I am a tank so there isn't much I'm dodging in that fight, I'll still be happy to record it, but is there another one you'd rather see?

[Duuude007]

This is the first game in which I MUST use a software (battleping) to get over the lag/delay...
Don't come and tell me there is no problem with the game.

A 3rd party app can fix your issue instantly, and you STILL blame SE?
How does that even remotely make sense?

Please, explain, as in my head when a kitchen is full of rats, asking for a new waiter, on rollerblades, will not make my meal any better.

[Pseudopsia]

Don't come and tell me there is no problem with the game. Specially if you live in USA, as both EU and NA servers are located in CANADA.

Little problems with game now compared to beta, however there's a big problem where servers are located for EU. Harder battles such as titan or coil don't give a lot of reaction time so I can see players with higher latency having problems.

I live in Ottawa, which is very close to where the servers are located so I obviously don't have issues avoiding attacks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoxQMBxrU0

There are three west coast players in my group too that are avoiding attacks fine.

[Valhinjin]

While the issue does exist for some, in many cases it's a lack of understanding in the mechanic. Whether you do or do not get hit is not exclusively related to the "red circle." The cast bar of the ability is what matters - if you are inside the "red" zone when the cast finishes, you're getting hit whether you stand there or are 40 yalms from the spot. You can see in a number of the Titan videos (some of them have been posted in this thread) that the player is clearly standing in the zone when the cast finishes. Understanding this greatly improved my gameplay.

That said, it would be much more intuitive if the cast were to be in sync with the red zone. Whether this is a good, bad, lazy, awesome design is really just subjective.

I'm not denying the existence of the lag, it is out there, but the majority of videos and complaints I see are simply people not watching the cast and claiming lag.

[Edenholt]

A 3rd party app can fix your issue instantly, and you STILL blame SE?
How does that even remotely make sense?

Please, explain, as in my head when a kitchen is full of rats, asking for a new waiter, on rollerblades, will not make my meal any better.

I'm not pretending I have any technical knowledge. I never needed any sort of latency reducer for the other games I played. Before FFXIV I used to play RIFT, was main tank with a solid raid schedule. Never had any problem but the eventual connection issues everybody's subject to. Then I come to FFXIV and have this issue. I call my internet provider, spend half an hour making tests with the tech support, testing other games, downloads and everything and they say my connection seems to be alright.

If i were bashing on the game for silly reasons like "nothing to do" or "i want more end game content" I'd understand people saying the problem's all on my side. But I honestly can't seem to being able to blame anybody but SE. Now, I like this game enough to have subbed for months and even subscribe to third party app in order to improve MY QoL, but it doesn't mean I won't keep asking for some fix from SE's side. I'm sorry if it offend you, as it seems to not be an issue you're facing in-game, but for me and many others Eu player (can't talk about NA, as the only NA we have in the FC are exactly the ones who NEVER have any problem with lag/delay) it's very bothersome.

[RynaultB]

A 3rd party app can fix your issue instantly, and you STILL blame SE?
How does that even remotely make sense?

If he's having to use a 3rd party program to reduce latency then it falls on SE and the routes that are being taken to get to the server. Its within SEs power to find the most efficient routes to be taken to reach their servers.

[Kikosho]

You can see in that gif they were standing in the landslide.. so yea. lol

You can see in that gif they were standing in the circle... so ye-.. wut.

[Sephirah]

You can see in that gif they were standing in the circle... so ye-.. wut.

That's the entire point of this thread. That gif, like mine, is in the overworld. That person has a connection issue.

I really have to wonder how you guys can look at gifs like this, and be like RAWR SEE TOLD YOU, and yet see the gifs at the start of this thread, and for some reason think it's voodoo magic or something.

[Tupsi]

That's the entire point of this thread. That gif, like mine, is in the overworld. That person has a connection issue.

Was also beta.