Quote Originally Posted by Allyra View Post
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).
If it's a proximity issue then all MMORPG would exhibit the same problem as FF14 at least 3% of the time, because speed of light travels 3000 km in 0.01s, which is less than the distance from west coast to east coast, which is a perfectly playable distance for NA players. If PvP in any MMORPG exhibits the same kind of behavior as FF14 does in general, there would be a riot in the forums. The fact there are no such riots means it cannot be a proximity issue.