Why I stopped paying for FFXIV

[Miiu]

As thousand's other player's ISP who post on this forums? My latency is fine, ~100 ms approximately, and I do not have such problems in any other MMO. My guess is that movement detection is not working as intended.

Are the 100ms just a guess? Just because you don't have that problem on other mmos doesn't mean your ISP is not at fault here. You could try installing the wtfast trial to check your ping that way and see if that tool solves your problem. As far as I know for wtfast you have to select a wtfast server close to the data center location in order to get the best performance but I might be wrong.

[Cid_Grim]

See you in your next thread.

Will probably be another "quitting" topic.

[Skotie]

Not really defending SE here but not sure why you would bring up the fact that it's free to play, every F2P game I've tried turns out it more along the lines of being free to endure plenty of extra hours of additional grind unless your willing to spend the cash to just get right to the fun, which is what they want. Once they hook you they'll bore you to death until you hand over the cash.

[ToraoKoga]

Do you have a wireless connection? If so try switching to wired connection. Fixed it for me. 30 lvs of agony latency with wireless, the next 20s with wired connection went smooth sailing.

[Whimsicalalien]

Do you have a wireless connection? If so try switching to wired connection. Fixed it for me. 30 lvs of agony latency with wireless, the next 20s with wired connection went smooth sailing.

Not on wireless.

[ToraoKoga]

Hmm...if so then I can't help out sorry.

I am a ps3 user after all ( thought PC connection was a lot simpler ) but it is out of my understanding ^-^'

Sorry you have to leave, try coming around 2.2 or 2.3 maybe it will be fixed by then. ^_^*

*EDIT This was for OP

[Alhanelem]

These kind of threads don't help anybody. if you want to quit, just quit. Don't tell anyone else about it and make a dramatic exit (most of the im quitting threads are posted by people not actually quitting anyway)

Latency is caused by a variety of factors all over the internet, Not all, but most, of these factors are beyond SE's control.

maybe hes posting because he wants se to know why they are losing subs?

Again, this is a pointless reason. It doesn't help SE, or anybody on this forum, to say "i'm quitting cuz lags." It's a customer SE would have lost anyway since most (not all, but most) causes of lag are beyond their control.

Posting I quit threads can only serve to drag down the community and serve the poster of such a topic's need for attention.

[Eclipsed]

These kind of threads don't help anybody. if you want to quit, just quit. Don't tell anyone else about it and make a dramatic exit (most of the im quitting threads are posted by people not actually quitting anyway)

Latency is caused by a variety of factors all over the internet, Not all, but most, of these factors are beyond SE's control.

Again, this is a pointless reason. It doesn't help SE, or anybody on this forum, to say "i'm quitting cuz lags." It's a customer SE would have lost anyway since most (not all, but most) causes of lag are beyond their control.

Posting I quit threads can only serve to drag down the community and serve the poster of such a topic's need for attention.

Wrong... While the lag may not entirely be there fault. There are particular design choices they made when making this MMO, that make it unique among other MMO's in that the design of the client/server architecture makes any lag that you might have on your end 10x worse. The recent changes they made to instances, made it better but they do need to know that they still have an issue and something needs to be done. Almost every other MMO on the market is designed in such a way that either by allowing the client to handle more or predictive algorithms they compensate for normal internet latency. This game does not and for some people it really shows.

[PSxpert2011]

Latency. That's why.

To be absolutly sure it's Squares fault due to latency:

1- Use the highest internet speed possible(for the time being).

2- Connect your hardware directly, use cold connections(not Wi-Fi, no router).

3- Lower your firewall or use ports(that's what "they've" told me) and try using a Virtual Private Network(VPN).

4- Test you connection speed from your location to anywhere in the nation or even using Tokyo as a reference.

You don't have to use the link I gave you but it's only a reference to measuring a good connection.

[Noahlimits]

To be absolutly sure it's Squares fault due to latency:
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This isn't true whatsoever. I had the highest internet speed from TWC that had low ping tests to every single website known to man except when I pinged the SE servers (throttled to 1000ms). Even if all the things above are fine, it doesn't mean it's on the SE side. As soon as I switched providers to ATT, even with a lower (worse) dl/ul speed, it fixed my lag issues. Consistent 100ms ping to the SE servers (which is a decent speed on the west coast).

TLDR: Just because the 1-4 is is true for your internet does not mean it's on SE's side.

I am glad to see these threads because as much as people want to white knight this game and pretend like everything is fine and everyone needs to l2p, people are leaving in droves. Every single person I started the game with has quit. EVERY SINGLE ONE. These are hardcore gamers that played XI and WoW for half a decade.

Not to white knight, but the people you know make up a small amount of the game population. Just like how I can say not only has every person I know IRL (who plays) stuck with the game, they got 7-8 friends to actually join in the last few months. I'm not sure how you can say people are 'leaving in droves' without any proof of it (10-15 of your friends is not a drove by definition). I'm not going to say the game is healthy/growing/perfectly fine based on my experience, because quite honestly it'd be ignorant to do so. I just hate when people state opinion as fact.