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[Riardon]

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 , us 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?

Someone of us would like to get ready for stormblood before rather than no after.

Thanks

Nope.
Limitations™

[Voltres]

Hi, I support this option for european players, but remember as well that south american players don't even have this option and we now have 300ms latency. The game is officially sold in Brazil.

[Gumbercules]

you get a like for asking for it in a reasonable manner! =D Do hope they figure out something for SA players though, imo those are the ones affected the most cuz of the overall baseline routing for those countries.(since their routing isn't above grounds its across the sea to the east coast)

[Tint]

i was upset too that EU players on NA servers didn't get a free transfer, and i am not even playing on an NA server xD

however, i guess they don't bring free transfers now, because they want to offer free transfers to lesser populated worlds with 4.0 and even open some new worlds in the EU data center:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2360440abe9651

so there will be free transfers... soon...

bringing free transfers now would be counter-productive against their plan to lead people to lesser populated worlds in 4.0. so not the best deal if you want to play on a high populated world, but at least it's free. they even want to refund your house (only if you own one, of course), and you can bring way more Gil with you than before (but still not enough i guess).

[Airget]

It's as simple as, they can't do the server transfers yet until they add in the new EU servers.

[Mature]

Just wanna update that tonight is feeling a bit more laggy than yesterday. I stopped going bard and move to SMN. Sadly my opener feels heavier and due to timing on contagion + tri disaster I have to now press my selected key for contagion lots of times to make sure it hits as soon as tri disaster goes off something that didn't need to do before.

For fester I have lag too. Once I start my rotation with bio 2 miasma bio ..... I have to wait a bit longer for fester to actually do full damage cause if I do it like before I'll be "festering" without Bio due to latency.

I understand that the server transfer and new worlds are happening after/during sb and I appreciate that but I personally think it should be push forward before the expansion (no Gil restriction either)

Thanks

[Transient_Shadow]

Hello everyone. So I've been seeing a lot of discontent among players regarding ping and the server change. While I feel for those who are having sever issues I'm not entirely sure its due to what you think it is.

I live in Missouri so I'm slightly east but mostly central. I've personally not experienced any change in performance due to the change. However that may be because I'm used to "sub par" performance. In the past I've only had issues on the weekend when my neighbors actually use the single internet line we have in the neighborhood.


In short I tested my ping and it runs from 97-130 (while running Discord, and Chrome with youtube on) with a single spike to 270 with no change. So maybe the problem isn't your internet but your connection to it. I use an Ethernet cable to connect to my modem it cost me less than 20 bucks and it fixed similar issues I had been having with overwatch and dark souls back when I was using wireless.

I'm not an expert but maybe you guys should do some research about your own gear before you cry fowl. And even then the servers have just been set up. it may take some tweaking before things become optimal again. so please be patient

[eschaton]

Maybe you missed it, but people didn't change their PC-setups, the datacenter changed. So that's why.

[gumas]

Because some people are too hardcore about it

Increase ping mean their performace will go down and that mean they are not in the high end 1% player group anymore (you know, those people who yell at you because your dps is 3% lower than standard, or get angry because the dungeon end 5 seconds late than usual)

Thing is, this ping discussion is divided into 2 category:

1. The one who got huge increase from 90s to 300s, this one legit and i feel sorry for them because not just their perfomance will drop by huge margin, its pretty much almost unplayable.

2. The one who only got miniscule increase from 50s to 100s then cry about it because its "unplayable" for them. All i can say is, get used to it or go ahead quit, no one will miss you.

[eschaton]

Because some people are too hardcore about it

Increase ping mean their performace will go down and that mean they are not in the high end 1% player group anymore (you know, those people who yell at you because your dps is 3% lower than standard, or get angry because the dungeon end 5 seconds late than usual)

Thing is, this ping discussion is divided into 2 category:

1. The one who got huge increase from 90s to 300s, this one legit and i feel sorry for them because not just their perfomance will drop by huge margin, its pretty much almost unplayable.

2. The one who only got miniscule increase from 50s to 100s then cry about it because its "unplayable" for them. All i can say is, get used to it or go ahead quit, no one will miss you.

You got old customers, loyals.

People who have been around years before you even registered... people who played perfectly fine over there, together; the people who actually gave you this game (by supporting 1.0 no matter what).

Fast forward a few years, and then someone random like you posts this.

It is a sad world indeed.