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[Ghastly]

I feel so bad for our European friends who play on the NA datacenters T_T I know a few of them...feel so bad *hugs them all*
Hope it's not so bad for us in the east coast...

[MuseTraveller]

I feel so bad for our European friends who play on the NA datacenters T_T I know a few of them...feel so bad *hugs them all*
Hope it's not so bad for us in the east coast...

Your hugs are welcomed. ;_; I dread checking the ping when servers are up as I get 240 to CA.

[Ayerinn]

I feel so bad for our European friends who play on the NA datacenters T_T I know a few of them...feel so bad *hugs them all*
Hope it's not so bad for us in the east coast...

I feel bad for them too BUT SE can only do so much - the gave them their own "native" datacenter 2 years ago...if they chose not to move then that was their choice and this was a future risk they were taking. Montreal was more "central" for EU/NA when there was no EU datacenter. I bet the thinking was:

ARR: EU/NA datacenter in "central" location aka Montreal
HW: EU datacenter created to better accommodate EU players, NA datacenter stays put for now to see how it works out
SB: NA datacenter moved to west coast of US which is more "central" for NA+NZ/AUS players

I do think people should be able to do a one time free transfer though with all their gil/items (but not FC, houses, etc unfortunately) to the EU datacenter.

[RukiaFae]

I pinged 66 to the old aether ip just now. If it goes up by 50 like people say it will, it will be 116 ping. Thats less than what the game was designed for so im a bit relieved and i live in the Carolinas.

I live in the Carolinas too. Hello neighbor. I hope the change isn't drastic. I have already have a slight delay. I don't need this to increase.

[BorisDaBlade]

Everyone, it's gonna be ok. I'm on the west coast. I'll just heal you through the aoe's.

I never really suffered any noticeable lag, but I don't use fancy ping trackers or traceroutes, so I don't know what my decrease is gonna be. If it is Sacramento, I'm only 500 miles away.

I do have to say though, I haven't seen anyone on the forums complaining about 90002 drops for a few months, but that could be the lack of players prior to SB.

[Nerisu]

I had 250+ ping playing from SEA region and have had no problems dodging AoEs (I do experience a bit of GCD clipping when double weaving, though). The move might bring it down to 170-200 which will most likely be unnoticeable for me but there's still the chance that it might make the game unplayable. If that happens I will either have to transfer to a JP data center (if they give us a free one + lift the gil restriction) or just quit.

[Shadowshinra]

I'm a UK player that used to play on Masamune so I had like 250 Ping, now on cactuar and my ping is around 90, I doubt the move will take me to JP server levels so I'll be used to the difference but still, CA is a odd move for sure, curious why they chose it.

[Texa]

The move there makes sense since SE's main English offices are located in California. Having the servers close to vital American staff would probably make it easier to get big issues dealt with quickly.

[Ama_Hamada]

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with the "built in lag" to "make it playable" for 200-220 ms this has me worried:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4129332

Because folks don't understand how networks work anymore, Distance is a part, but like 1/5 of the factors, Shitty routing and packet loss plays so much more into lag then distances nowadays.

That is what I am worried about, doesn't the routing appear worse?

[Lokryn]

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with the "built in lag" to "make it playable" for 200-220 ms this has me worried:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4129332

This kinda ping is still well within the norms for 80% of online gaming, if going from 30ms to 100ms gets you killed, its more you then the lag. Just being honest.