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[Kyouki]

Are you even from North America?

If not, your voice on where servers designated from a region you're not even a part of counts for nothing. Be thankful that you have the privilege to even play on them.

I sincerely hope your reply was meant as a joke.

Cheers,
D.

I bet Len is a Trump fanboy... "america ONLY, america ONLY"... And he seems to forget that a lot of american ppl work and live abroad. What about them? Lost their "privilege" to play on NA servers too?

[Mature]

As a PS4 Im greatly affected by the server move. My character has the "under water" affect. It runs and move a couple of seconds after executing the command. Certain actions as a Bard are confusing when it comes to BL etc. Another way to find out if you have a laggy character is at cacpot, if I scratch the circles to reveal the numbers it takes a couple of second to reveal the figure. Another way to notice this lag is by going to the MB browse for something and once u done , the arrow mark will stay on the MB for a couple of seconds once u have moved​ away. It's not ideal and the game doesn't feel the same.

A pc player got all sorts of ways to try to fix their ping. My question is are there a ways for PS4 players to reduce lag or ping at all?

[SpookyGhost]

Sorry, slightly confused and just want to clarify: You're saying, for example, you press the analog stick to the left and it has a delay between when you pushed it and when the character moves to the left? If so that's a client-side problem, ping doesn't affect that. I'm not actually sure how you improve your ping on PS4, I remember reading somewhere that you could set up a VPN on your router but that's the only vague information I know. Hope you can sort out your problem!

[Aniond]

Wireless connection? No ps4 only supports the slower speeds. You would have to upgrade to ps4 pro or go wired.

[Raikki]

If you're referring to how PC players use VPNs to improve their connection, you could accomplish something like that but you'd need a router with VPN (client) support.

[Mature]

Yes I'm looking something like VPN I'm completely oblivious as to how it works or what does it do.im wired too.

[Kosmos992k]

Yes I'm looking something like VPN I'm completely oblivious as to how it works or what does it do.im wired too.

VPN is something that PS4 can't do on it's own, you've have to VPN via a PC and then bridge the PS4 to the VPN via that PC. Some routers might support the use of a VPN service, I've never really looked into that.

You can also badger the heck out of your ISP about ping times and bad routing and ask them to optimize. They may/may not do anything. However it's possible that they could help the situation if there is some bad routing in their network, bu optimizing it.

[Mature]

Thanks I'm gonna have to look into this. It might improve my ping on PS4 a bit

[Jas710]

I know that there is a thing where you can manually enter in Google's public DNS servers. Not sure if it affects ping etc, though. It's easy to find info on this online.

[Mature]

Thanks to the server move to improve stability and traffic to the game, has created mixed opinions.

People has seen their latency reduce , some have seen their latency increase. (As you probably expected and tested to begin with)I think the most affected ones were EU players. When chaos data was transferred​ to EU side you were given NA players the option to transfer out for free to a NA server for free due to the fact they were gonna be the ones who were gonna suffer the most in latency being moved further away to benefit others (EU players) now the issue arrising is the other way round.

Could we , EU players get given the chance to a transfer to a EU server for free with no gil or any kind of restrictions at all?

Some of us would like to get ready for stormblood before rather than after the expansion is launched

Thanks