IS THIS A JOKE?! NOTHING was done to fix the netcode.

[Xenobius]

Most people (with the skill) have been clearing primals..np..even to the point of selling them...:x

I hate to break it for you, but not everybody lives in Canada and the US, where FFXIV's lag problems range from nonexistent to mildly annoying and are easily fixed using WTFast or any other VPN software.
Many of users across Altantic (you know, where some of playerbase happen to reside) have it bad enough on both "NA/EU" and "JP" server groups. Because, hey, it's totally cool to play a game where every other boss fight boils down to "dodge stuff FAST" when you have to deal with godawful network code and lack of servers NOT somewhere halfway across the world.

[Tupsi]

I hate to break it for you, but not everybody lives in Canada and the US, where FFXIV's lag problems range from nonexistent to mildly annoying and are easily fixed using WTFast or any other VPN software.

You do realize that means it's not a problem with the game itself but the hops particular ISPs are taking to reach the servers..right? SE stated VPN software isn't against ToS which means it's not interacting with the game coding at all - If a program isn't directly interacting with the game's code or memory, doesn't that mean it's not particularly the net code since it's not actually fixing anything with the game itself?

I will be sure to remind the EU players in my FC that they're not clearing primals and only imagined their victories. It is annoying since people even in the US are having problems, but the clear rate is fairly high on our server from what I'm seeing.

As a matter of fact..the only time I ever seen someone blame lag recently was when they utterly failed at Ultima Hard. On Mondays I get a ton of lag in Coil and the like but later in the week that lag clears up, so the servers aren't perfect but the game is still very much playable to a large portion of their playerbase

[Shirai]

I will be sure to remind the EU players in my FC that they're not clearing primals and only imagined their victories.

Oh no, all the AoE's I've dodged, all the battles I have won, they were all a dream?
I'm so sad now...

[Yukiko]

From what I see is: You started twice a cast after his AoE. That way you are locked in a small cast delay on the server, it updates your position and then you have full wait time + lag untill it recognize that you are "beginning" to run! Try to wait untill your enemy moves before you start any cast. Thats not some sort of Netcode, but one of those things that adds delay, which makes the fight with higer lag pure frustration. Indeed SE have not done much yet to solve this problem, but let them do it step by step! To have now position updates each 0.1s instead of 0.3s helps a lot (also the other changes), but its not the only problem we had with "delay-stuck" previously in 2.0

[ZephyrAM]

Well, duh. They're wrong on those ones. And if SE thinks people will continue to pay for this game if nothing is fixed, they're wrong yet again.

This has yet to be seen. If enough people continue to pay, then they'll be right.

I understand that in some areas, with some ISP's, on some systems, for some people, the game can be practically unplayable. But unless SE has proof that those some's justify the likely large system overhaul to change what's needed to fix it for those people, nothing's going to change.

And, unfortunately for those in the situation, ARR will be just fine this way.

[Soulscare]

I will be sure to remind the EU players in my FC that they're not clearing primals and only imagined their victories.

Basically this. Are EU's at a disadvantage? Yup. Is it game breaking? Nup. I'm kinda sick of hearing all the excuse tbh, people moaning in chat "I WAS OUT OF IT" like 50 times... That's cool, but you died. So rather than moaning in chat (or on the forums) count your losses, move on, get better.

[Synthesis]

Most people (with the skill) have been clearing primals..np..even to the point of selling them...:x

Skill isn't the issue. Lag is obvious from the video. So don't mix skill and lag together.

[Madoka]

Should have gone right for landslide, don't jump when dodging aoes

[Onyxys]

Many of my friends have problems with lags. I have ping 160-170 and I have no problem with running out from plumes. The main problem of lags is BAD ROUTE to the server. For example you live in Germany, but your connection isnt going direct to Canada, but going through Spain, Brazil and only then to Canada. It is provider problem. One of the best advice here- use good proxy (vpn) to make your route connection much more direct to servers. WTFAST- is a good program for this. It has 1 month trial. And dont forget to make a tracing of your connection till the servers- you will know exactly where do you have connection, packets and ping loss (on the territory of some countries, i guess). Good luck

[Asdamine]

Many of my friends have problems with lags. I have ping 160-170 and I have no problem with running out from plumes. The main problem of lags is BAD ROUTE to the server. For example you live in Germany, but your connection isnt going direct to Canada, but going through Spain, Brazil and only then to Canada. It is provider problem. One of the best advice here- use good proxy (vpn) to make your route connection much more direct to servers. WTFAST- is a good program for this. It has 1 month trial. And dont forget to make a tracing of your connection till the servers- you will know exactly where do you have connection, packets and ping loss (on the territory of some countries, i guess). Good luck

I have a problem with the word "Canada".