Why I stopped paying for FFXIV

[Ronzeru]

"I'm quitting the game, but have come to stand on a soap box to let you all know i'm quitting, instead of just going off and doing something else more valuable with my time."

^ I love these posts.

[Brianmz]

Try a different ISP, must likely it...I play far away from Servers, Honduras, CA, im usually at 80-120ms..no lag in anything.

[Miiu]

First of all I'm playing from central europe so I'm not really close to the sever in canada. At the start of 2.0 I had pretty severe connection issues (other players rubberbanding, getting hit by AoE even though I was already somewhere else) so the usual stuff people with connection problems are experiencing. A friend of mine living in a different city but close by didn't have those issues so I did a tracert to check where the bottleneck was and contacted my internet provider with my findings.
One or two days later the bottleneck was gone and I haven't experienced any connection problems since then except the occasional lagspike but those can happen even if you'd be sitting right next to the server.

I'm well aware that my experience is not applicable to everyone. But if you are experiencing routing problems try contacting your internet provider and if they can't help try tools like wtfast or pingzapper. I know it's not ideal to pay for another tool so you can play a game with a monthly subscription fee but SE can't control which route your internet takes from your pc to their data center. The only thing you can fault SE for is not offering more server locations around the world.

[Naduron]

Latency. That's why. I geared up and decided to attempt HMs and did I fail hard. But I wasn't failing the strategy I was failing running out of bad stuff. Particularly plumes and landslide that I have the most trouble with.

Sadly this is the only way to "fix" the issue cause we all know that SE won't fix the issue by moving the EU server to.... EU.

Create a bard cause they are the only class that lets you move around without forcing you to stand still.
what ever you do NEVER stand still, even for a 0.00001 sec or you are dead.

[Rhas]

Sadly this is the only way to "fix" the issue cause we all know that SE won't fix the issue by moving the EU server to.... EU.

Or you could try following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37IY1XkLDI and try fixing it yourself.

This fixed both me and my wifes "latency" issues. Especially with titan. Before adding the registry keys, neither of us was even able to make it to the heart phase of titan HM because we kept dying. Continuously. After I added them (and rebooted) we have both been able to beat titan and stay alive the entire fight.

[SarcasmMisser]

Constantly running around is a sure way to wipe a raid in Titan em and get kicked from groups. If you can't do it then you can't do it, don't burden groups that can it isn't their problem.

[Crevox]

My god the people in this thread are ignorant.

Alhanelem tried to talk sense into you; I'm surprised he tolerated it this long. All you do is try to twist his words even though what he is saying is the truth.

Get your heads out of the sand and stop blaming SE for your own problems. At least try to solve them or do some research before you whine to SE for what is an issue on your end.

The simplest way I can put it:

If the server is lagging, everyone will lag.
If the majority of the people are not lagging, the server is not lagging.
If YOU are lagging, and yet other people are not, something is wrong with your connection to their WORKING servers; whether that be something along the way TO the servers, or your computer/ISP/distance to their server. I don't know what else to say, it's your problem, and you're not letting us help you fix it. I don't care if League of Legends or some other game doesn't lag for you, it doesn't mean it's not your problem, or not the fault of something on the way to SE's servers (which, again, is not SE's fault).

WTFast works for people because it proxies the connection. It connects you to something else that your connection ISN'T having issues with, and that server relays the information from SE's servers to you. Thus, you're not experiencing the issues that you would normally get from your connection directly to SE's servers. Nothing SE can do will solve this.

If this doesn't get through to you, I don't think anything will. Just don't be a pouty child about the game not working for you when it's your own problem you need to resolve (while the OP isn't, he's still being ignorant).

[Crevox]

red circle disappears, red arrow points to you

Red arrow pointing to you means an enemy actor is targeting you. Red circles are not actors, they cannot target, and thus there is no red arrow when this happens.

You've now lost all validity. Beyond that, I'd say monitor a constant ping to the server on a cmd window to watch the numbers, or run a tracert and look for slow pings.

You should know how to do all of this already, I mean, of course, you've looked all this up already.

Also, read the above post.

this is a problem with the game, not with our computers. not with our internet connections.

Information you send to the server goes through many different nodes to reach its destination (SE's servers). Can you guess what happens when ONE of those nodes takes longer than normal to relay the information forward? I mean, come on, you should be able to figure this one out. That's definitely the game's fault right? Right?

Right?

When you decide to start trying to act like you know what you're talking about, please be sure you actually are ready to know what you're talking about. Not only did I never say "ur pc bad huehuehuehuehuehuehue get better internet", but you clearly don't even know how all of this works, yet are trying to explain it like you do.

Also, for the people liking his post; stop trying to look for an easy answer to this problem. It shouldn't be "lol it's SE's fault" just because you're too lazy to try to fix the issue, or even figure out what's going on. No one is saying it's your fault this is happening, but that doesn't mean it's a problem you can't solve, or a problem that was caused by SE.

[Ri_ri]

Red arrow pointing to you means an enemy actor is targeting you. Red circles are not actors, they cannot target, and thus there is no red arrow when this happens.

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When you decide to start trying to act like you know what you're talking about, please be sure you actually are ready to know what you're talking about.

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[Crevox]

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I don't see a red circle. Do you? Cause I don't.

I specifically said red circle because some of Titan's attacks do that. However, those are not red circles.

See what I mean about people trying to make petty arguments instead of just trying to solve the problem?

I give up, I'm out. Have fun being ignorant and blaming SE for all the problems. Clearly no one wants to listen to reason or even try to solve the problem.