West Coast Significantly Effected By Server Distance

[OrionInerghem]

I live in San Francisco and have a large FC with a lot of West Coast players. I recently decided to try WTFast Tunneling Software after seeing it listed here on the forums as a way to improve gameplay in ARR.
The difference has been Huge!! I used to have to sprint to miss plumes in Titan, and certain attacks like Piercing Laser on ADS, and Goobue in WP were almost impossible to dodge, now I can casually walk out of them Lol. After doing a free Trial I'M SOLD.
My rotations are actually so tight that I'm now interrupting my own spell casting because I'm used to moving before it finishes, it's just crazy! No lag spikes either! According to their site I'm now seeing a 35% increase in performance and it feels like it.

My BF who also lives in SF also has tried it and is shocked by how much better the gameplay is and how much tighter his rotations are.

Now for the bad news. I've posted what a huge difference the tunneling software has made on my FC site, since so many people have left the game now disappointed because of the horrible latency on Titan (some literally being hit while across the area)

Unfortunately they won't pay the $5 a month to try it and come back as they feel the game shouldn't need a service that like to work, and I can see where they're coming from.

I just think that for this game to continue to thrive SE should really think about adding servers West Coast, European, and Pacific Islanders (I can only imagine how horrible it is for them considering my improvements)
JP is a very small area (about the size of California) So I'm sure this isn't an issue over there.
But for the rest of us the Hops our connections take significantly affect ARR gameplay.

[Crazypluto]

This is how it's been for east coast players for years man with all the servers on the west coast.

[Axidrain]

Im glad that someone in this forum finally tried this.

[Tupsi]

Same area...I don't experience anywhere near "severe" lag issues or need the use of a VPN and I use AT&T lol.

[Awake]

Needing a 3rd party software and PAYING for it in order to play ff14 is sometihng no one should be doing.Everyone should just quit the game and therfore force SE to place servers where they should be or find a new job!It's retarded on how much gamers needs to adapt and what the billion dollars companys do?Laugh at you and milk even more money more easy.PPL WAKE UP!

[OrionInerghem]

I use Comcast It's the only Cable option for us... My parents have AT&T and when I've checked it's been much slower.

My actual Internet is pretty darn fast 55 MBS/15 MBS, but the infrastructure on the way to Montreal must be deplorable. I just can't believe a tunneling service has made this big of a difference.

[Pavise]

Oceanic player here, and yeah tunnels are damn near mandatory for most games with have terrible server placement and routes to said servers.

[Axidrain]

Needing a 3rd party software and PAYING for it in order to play ff14 is sometihng no one should be doing.Everyone should just quit the game and therfore force SE to place servers where they should be or find a new job!It's retarded on how much gamers needs to adapt and what the billion dollars companys do?Laugh at you and milk even more money more easy.PPL WAKE UP!

I live in malaysia. Ive been dealing with this crap since the beginning of online gaming. Its not new buddy. When i play a game were the datacenter is far away from where i live i expect some degree of latency.

[Kyriea]

I love how Americans are only just having to deal with this while the rest of the world have had issues like this since internet gaming started! Producers would never spend the money to place a server in every country, it's just one of them things that we have to deal with and have been for so many years, and I think it's time America joined us.

[Octoberizm]

I live in SF also, I have no issues at all with dodging anything. I have my PC Ethernet'd to my router. . At the beginning of ARR I had problems because I was using WiFi and own a crappy network card but after I switched to Ethernet, boom, golden. Lasers and Plumes can't even touch me. :l