Bad ping/latency/lag problems

[Nipa]

From times to times I noticed spikes of latency, up to few seconds (while my ping to the server was still less than 300ms). I'm from Europe and usually play on US MMO servers, servers on which I've never felt so much latency. I think there is a problem more important than server localization here.

[gifthorse]

There was a huge discussion about latency on the ffxivcore.com forums in alpha too. Many people insisted that latency would be detrimental to all players who aren't in Japan. Nobody seemed to take the issue very seriously though, and in the end decided that it was a sacrifice they were willing to make to keep the multicultural aspect of the game alive.

But, with the improvements they are adding to the combat system, I can see latency being a huge hurdle to these improvements. You cannot implement positioning or action-based combat without first accommodating it with appropriate networking, and at the present time FFXIV totally fails at that.

Have you ever asked a Japanese person to repair your gear? It takes them zero seconds to get on their knees and repair the item. Whenever I try to repair something, however, it takes me at least two seconds longer altogether.

Three seconds sounds quite extravagant, and I didn't know it could be that bad for europeans, so i really do agree that they should consider separating servers into regions. When you consider that many japanese players disliked the idea of multicultural servers when NA FFXI went live, and still to this day, resist playing with NA players, it seems like there is little reason to maintain the global servers other than for the convenience of having them right there at the developers disposal.

I think outsourcing servers in different regions isn't a difficult thing to do in this day and age, and SE would have little trouble doing that. So, compared to the other issues the game faces, this would be a minor adjustment from my point of view... and a necessary one.

[Zenaku]

There alway a 3 second delay matter if you play wow or if you playing FFXIV/FFXI. Open your ports for FFXIV and you feel less lag top of that download better.

[Afon]

I'm from the UK & everytime i do anything in game the delay gets me killed 9 out of 10 times... it's very annoying hitting the button & nothing happens! makes leveling up virtually impossible... I'm trying really hard to like playing this game and I should'nt have to... even synthing is a near impossible task. Dont see myself playing much longer unless things change.

[Zenaku]

I'm from the UK & everytime i do anything in game the delay gets me killed 9 out of 10 times... it's very annoying hitting the button & nothing happens! makes leveling up virtually impossible... I'm trying really hard to like playing this game and I should'nt have to... even synthing is a near impossible task. Dont see myself playing much longer unless things change.

you have issue then open your ports i know a few UK and they don't have problems like you saying.

[Cairdeas]

I just like to comment. To avoid the Breakout manuever from moles if you take 3 steps forward approximately right where the mole would have been or just behind it, When he comes out he'll miss.

[gifthorse]

I just like to comment. To avoid the Breakout manuever from moles if you take 3 steps forward approximately right where the mole would have been or just behind it, When he comes out he'll miss.

That's only the case if you are soloing. In parties, that rule doesn't apply because he will go after different people in the group with different relative positions. When soloing he pops up where you would have been, or thereabouts.

[fallacies]

9 times out of 10, I get KO'd by low-level monsters I have no trouble beating because of lag. Everything stops for like 20 seconds, and then suddenly I've died because of some Marmot at the city gates despite being class rank 19...

[Amiral_Benson]

I must say I really enjoyed reading your answer gifthorse, I totally agree with you.

[Suburp]

I appreciate your feedback. Feeling a bit less lonely now heh. Now just to make things clear, we are not talking about delay in actions from lack of stamina here (just making sure everyone's got the mechanics right).
Anyway, most posts here fall into contructive criticism, and this is really nice to read. I said most, but I won't be quoting/debating over those that i deem irrelevant. Not my job, and it wouldn't be a good idea to start a "civil war" when we're obviously all on the same boat heh? Not that i'm going at war against SE or anything! Oh man, here I go digressing again.
Anyway, we just need to be heard, keep the feedback coming guys/gals!

On a side note, here's a link to a thread pertaining to that subject in the french section, if you're interested:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...827-La-latence