Quote Originally Posted by Dwill View Post
As far as I'm aware, what Blizzard's doing will also help slightly on the positioning. I might be wrong though as networking isn't my forte and there are more qualified people than I that can explain the whole networking process of movement and positioning updates.
If so, good, but it's not really addressed in that thread. And if it only slightly helps, I'd say it's more of a beneficial side effect than anything.

This thread is largely comparing two unrelated things. If FFXIV is doing that kind of action batch-processing, and making this change would smooth things out or improve responsiveness, great, let's do it. But it won't necessarily do anything for movement/positioning lag, and it won't necessarily help with animation vs. activation.

FFXIV could definitely use help in both departments, but I don't think asking for 1-10ms movement updates (especially when using WoW as justification while that's not what WoW is doing) is the way to go. That'd be an enormous increase in positioning traffic and processing, and would likely screw just as many people as it helps.

And if FFXIV does have batch action processing (which we don't know), sure, that change might help some, but if that's the only change they make, I doubt it'd end up all that much better. Moving away from the whole animation-first paradigm would make a bigger impact, IMO.