My ping is at 40ms average all the time and yet I still lag a lot and there is tons of packet loss.

The servers for this game aren't only placed in a stupid location, they're running on Pentium II CPUs. In fact I don't doubt these are leftover servers from Final Fantasy XI.

It's pathetic Yoshida uses the same excuse all the time when explaining why we can't get more advanced content. "Servers can't handle it". Good lord this is a subscription game for a reason. Free to play MMO games lag less than Final Fantasy XIV.