To the Dev: Fix your damn instance servers

[Licus]

Seriously,

You guys take this game down 2-3 times a week to do maintenance. For the last several months multiple dungeons lag. What is the freaking point of doing maintenance if the issues keep persisting.

I am not sure what kind of game company you guys are running, but this lag in instances is completely unacceptable. Take your damn game down for a week if it will solve these lag issues, just fix the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whats the point of releasing new content if you can't even clear aurum vale or stone vigil due to a tank or healer lagging.

Get it together!

[SirSaber]

-Party members Teleporting
-Skill Lag ( Caster Skills get interrupted, Tank combos don't appear, Bard songs don't appear and more )
-Heals and Buffs don't land on their target Ally
-Damage doesn't land on Enemies
-Interactions taking 5 to 15 seconds to start ( grabbing keys, opening doors, shortcuts, etc )

Yepp I stopped doing Dungeons. Too much lag.

[MoraClaret]

Yeah it sucks and they're aware of it. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...tain-Instances

[Crimson-Falcon]

after the crazy lag i had in leviathan EX and T5 i quit FFXIV til this lagg fixed

really endgame contents are nearly impossible with this lagg

might try farm atmas til this solved

[Pyreflye]

+1

The lag is just ridiculous.
5-10 second pauses.
Party members warping all over the place
Skill combos not working
"Not yet ready" after already completing the animation for a skill.

Don't even get me started on dodging AoE.
It's like launch week all over again. Literally on the other side of the arena to a marker, and still being hit.

[Licus]

after the crazy lag i had in leviathan EX and T5 i quit FFXIV til this lagg fixed

really endgame contents are nearly impossible with this lagg

might try farm atmas til this solved

That's an extension of my problem. I am doing the books for my relic and they require three dungeon boss kill per book. I have done stone vigil three times now trying to get credit and every time it has been a bust due to healer or tank lag.

[Mcshiggs]

The issue here is really money, they need more hardware. The instance servers were already running with noticeable lag at peak times, so in SE's genius they redid the core of the instance servers' programming letting them cram more instances onto the same amount of servers to reduce wait times, that gave us more noticeable lag, all the time. Instead of trying work arounds they need to just cough up some money and actually put more back into this game, but I am sure they are sitting there thinking that with almost all mmo's subscriptions will drop after the first year, so they may not have enough servers now, but in 6 months time if subs drop, it may be more than sufficient then. To me there is no excuse for this, they have made more than they thought they would, and they still try to coax people out of $48 more a year on retainers, but what can you expect, it is SE, and their greed runs deep.

[Seif]

Sometimes it seems there's quite small amount of lag but when it hits EVERYONE dies because I'm a tank.

Even stone vigil boss difficulty spikes from extremely easy to impossibly hard because of this.
I hate that this makes a big part of the harder content completely inacessible to me.
I love the fact that there is hard stuff don't get me wrong but without better server structure it's not even worth touching.

[Zaiken]

For me its the stupid skill lag and opening chest, warp point, door, etc. The lag start right away every time I'm in Dungeon. Skill not registering and not landing on enemy. Very frustrating when Tanking because the mob just wander to the DPS like this. Opening chest, door, shortcut literally take 5 seconds and up before it registered.

[RyuDragnier]

I'm fine with the small lag spikes here and there, I've gotten those enough in the past to be used to them (at least once per day). It's the frequency in which I've gotten them since the patch which scares me (at least 30 times a day). I also used to get small 1-2 second hiccups often, something that I didn't mind since it helped me learn enemy skill rotations so I'm anticipating their moves before they are.

But this has broken it for me, I'm seeing little to no hiccups and a lot of lag spikes, often leading to my own death or the death of the party because either I can't move out of AoE or I'm trying to heal and it's completely interrupting the heals, leading to a wiped party. It's just not fun at this level, and the dungeons, which are what keep me coming back, are becoming too much of a nuisance for me to continue dungeoning. Even FATE grinding is starting to get hellish because I'm starting to feel the same sort of lag there due to everybody and their mom trying to Atma farm. I'm sincerely considering dropping the game until it gets fixed.