im sure this has been mentioned before (the beta forums were sure set aflame with this topic), and it will probably be mentioned again, but i just wanted to bring more attention to the issue.

i cant be sure about people living outside of california (im in california), but the ping time is horrible here. the horrible ping time coupled with having to talk to the server with every button click (and there are a lot of button clicks) is pretty bad. forgive me if im wrong, but i havnt heard of any plans to fix this problem, or the least an acknowledgement of it.

i dont care what is done to alleviate having to wait for the ping, whether you make the client server sided or have some other fix in mind, but it needs to happen, and the sooner the better.

what follows is a ping test to one of the game servers:
minimum ping was 115 ms
maximum ping was 745 ms
and the average was 299 ms

the reason that im posting this is that im wondering if the developers even know how serious of a problem this is for the players who dont live in japan. for instance, my ping to google (whos servers are probably about as close to me as xiv's servers are to the developers studios) has an average of about 60 ms, which is much more reasonable and if you were playing the game with a 60 ms ping, you probably wouldnt even notice it, which leads me to think that maybe they dont even know that players outside of japan are having trouble with the ping time.

sorry if its been posted before, but it needs to be posted again, and again, and then again, until its fixed, or at least acknowledged as a concern