I'd love this game, but it's not for me due to the "issue" with AOEs

[Rhas]

Your connection is fine. FFXIV just sucks hard balls when it has a connection that is not 100% optimal. The internet is not optimal, and it's very common to have some packet loss and jitter.

No MMO should require that you use a VPN (the only *trick* in that post that is actually going to affect your FFXIV connection). Hell, most AAAA MMO's can operate PVE just fine at up to 300ms pings, and you'd not feel any difference.

Also wrong VPN is not needed.

Fixed my lag in the circles issue just by using TCPOptimizer (optimal) and adding in both TcpAckFrequency = 1
TCPNoDelay = 1. Haven't had lag in the circles since I added it in whereas before I could barely even get through places like the wall and all the AoE circles, like titan.

FFXIV was not the only game (MMO) I was having 'lag' pr 'latency' issues with. Other games are also playing much better as well for me.

[whilke]

Also wrong VPN is not needed.

Fixed my lag in the circles issue just by using TCPOptimizer (optimal) and adding in both TcpAckFrequency = 1
TCPNoDelay = 1. Haven't had lag in the circles since I added it in whereas before I could barely even get through places like the wall and all the AoE circles, like titan.

FFXIV was not the only game (MMO) I was having 'lag' pr 'latency' issues with. Other games are also playing much better as well for me.

By messing with your TCP settings and changing your ACK response frequency and disabling the niggle algorithm, you are affecting all other TCP based application on your computer. You'll be using more upload bandwidth across the board, and possible affecting your general download speeds.

There is no reason why you should have to fiddle with your TCP stack to play a video game.

[Goodberry]

The dodge mechanics in XIV aren't even remotely difficult, even with the set 300ms response time (which is being changed to 100ms for endgame instances and PvP in 2.1 btw).

If you can't dodge in XIV, you're either having a serious connection issue (whether or not it's beyond your control) or you're bad. Dodging is easy in this game.

At twintania people were ocmplaining about how hard it was to dodge Twister with the current response time. They relaxed the timing, and now people are calling it "easy." Titan was never hard, nor are any of the other bosses where dodging is important, such as the boss of Dzemael Darkhold.

How comforting to know that there are guys like you for which nothing is ever hard. :P

[Goodberry]

Unless you're playing from a place that just have horrible latency, then I'm sorry but you're just bad, and quitting cuz you're bad is pretty hilarious. The discrepancy between effect and animation is a well-known issue in this game, one that for the love of god needs to be fixed; however, if everyone else can do fine despite it, why can't you?

Thanks for the concern. Maybe I'll explain all this to you, later. :P

[myahele]

What's wore is that I usually get ko'd when there arent any indicators that the enemy is attacking. I'll be pretty far away and then bam! Dead. This only happens to me in the cyclops fate and invisible behemoth

[Goodberry]

Well, got to 50. Trying to hang on for now. "Problem" is Eorzea is so gorgeous a world that I am loath to abandon it. Now I stop DPS and run away from bosses whenever "I have a bad feeling about it". Circles are there only to trick us into getting killed. We'll see. To be clear: if I manage to keep playing this game in spite of these issues the merit is ALL mine. :P

[Chippy2]

Most people I know in aussie/Europe use programs like battle ping to help latency issues and dodging issues. They are trying their best to update their servers to reduce issues with dodging. Best way to avoid and get around it is predict the patterns. Keep in mind this is a brand new game there are going to be bugs and issues that need tweaked not even WoW when it first came out was perfect there was little to nothing to do and it was awfully laggy could have been the crappy computers back then anyhow.

Fed up to my back teeth of people saying this is a new game it'll get sorted!. That's why we did BETA and ALPHA testing. You don't release a game if it's not ready end of story!. Plus it's been a few months now how long this gonna take?. C'mon wake up people I am a FF fanboy also but enough is enough!.

[Alhanelem]

I agree. This is a part of the problem. It gets old fast.

I'm confused by people who defend the game and claim it's all the player's fault and then list the third party software/subscriptions they use to make their game work. If you have to use third party software or memorize what will happen before it happens, the game is broken.
I just got the new LoZ game. If I popped it in my 3DS and it didn't work [snip for space]

Your comparison to a 3DS game is flawed because the issues are caused by differing hardware/software environments. Every 3DS has the same hardware inside and the game isn't online so connectivity isn't an issue. hardware/network/software issues are to be expected and are common in PC games because no two people are in exactly the same computing environment.

Fed up to my back teeth of people saying this is a new game it'll get sorted!. That's why we did BETA and ALPHA testing. You don't release a game if it's not ready end of story!.

If they followed your mentality the game would never be released because MMOs are never ending and thus the issues are never ending as well. There will always be bugs, there will always be problems, no matter how long your alpha and beta are. They can only burn through so much cash in testing before it becomes wasteful- especially when some issues can only be found and tested by releasing the game into the wild, where many more people will run and play the game than they could possibly get people to test with. Simulations will only get you so far. You have obviously never worked at a game studio (or any software development studio for that matter), or you would understand this.

How comforting to know that there are guys like you for which nothing is ever hard. :P

What makes fights like titan "not hard" is the simple fact that they are 100% predictable fights which follow the same pattern every single time. The difficulty in virtually any fight in this game is simply learning the patterns and mechanics. Once you've done that, it's really not hard anymore.

[ReiszRie]

LMAO. Lets add typing to the to do list here.
So now I am running out of a Boss I-Win attack, dodging adds, healing party, communicating aggro to dps.

Got anything else you might want me to do while I'm at it? I should be getting paid to do this stuff. I could blind fold a special Ops in Nigeria with this kind of mutli tasking skills.

If you're unwilling to put in effort, then simply don't do the Gorjimera FATE, if handling Gorjimera FATE already proves too much for you to take, you aren't gonna be able to handle the end game contents.

[Chippy2]

In response to Ahanalem.

If they followed your mentality the game would never be released because MMOs are never ending and thus the issues are never ending as well. There will always be bugs, there will always be problems, no matter how long your alpha and beta are. They can only burn through so much cash in testing before it becomes wasteful- especially when some issues can only be found and tested by releasing the game into the wild, where many more people will run and play the game than they could possibly get people to test with. Simulations will only get you so far. You have obviously never worked at a game studio (or any software development studio for that matter), or you would understand this.

Just because I don't work in computing doesn't mean I got to accept constant lag in dungeons and error code 90k every hour , your argument just sounds ridiculous!. I work in Oil & Gas industry it's like me saying oh that tank of gas you put in your car has f****d your engine but hey we were trying out a new type of fuel I'm sorry your car is broke deal with it!.