Quote Originally Posted by Astarica View Post
. At any rate, it's not a proximity issue. It takes the speed of light 0.01s to go from west coast to east coast, so there's no reason to query sooner than every 0.01s in any MMORPG (speed of light isn't fast enough), so we'd expect WoW or any other MMORPG to exhibit the same problem with 3% the frequency compared to FF14.
Blizz doesn't put all their data centers in one spot.

And it IS partially a proximity issue, because of the amount of hops taken. The other half being these ISPs getting overloaded (imagine one major highway from CA to east coast Canada picking up everyone along the way), and these ISP companies not caring (why should they? we don't pay them).