Used to not be able to play without a vpn. Then about 1 month prior to 2.1, I tried playing without my vpn again and found out I was able to and stopped using the vpn for ffixv arr ever since. I just thought that SE actually did something when they asked people for their connection infos.

Then after 2.1 hotfix, I was suddenly getting really bad lag again (the world around you stopped and the connection status is S:XXX R:0 and then after a random number of seconds, game would speed up everything around me to catch up) and I tried using my vpn with the game again. To my dismay, the situation is still the same and I'm still lagging really badly with the vpn on even though everything else I use with the vpn was near flawless. Can't help but feel that the patch/hotfix did something.