[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Hestzhyen]

Earlier I was getting around 105ms... now it's 138ms. Route didn't change, but there's a massive latency increases between two points on NTT's backbone where there wasn't before (Seattle and San Jose). I guess this is the quality infrastructure I can expect from here on out unless I pay for a VPN to route around it. Thanks, SE.

Edit: oh joy, there's packet loss that starts at the same hop and carries through to the destination, too.

SE can't control what quality of service those providers serve. All they can do is make sure the connection from their data center to the rest of the internet is as good as it can be. It's your ISP that decides how to get your information to SE's servers, not SE.

[Lesan]

Playing from.EU, old DC meant around 140-170 ms for me, which often enough meant that oGCD use was wonky, and in case of playing Healer, caused issues with 'stance dance', or caused my DRG to do DRG things like drop BotD or die.

If my connection now drops to 200+ latency, I'm going to unsub, unless SE pays for the 'Gamer VPN' for me, or provides a no-restrictions chartransfer for free.

[AlexanderFelwinter]

Playing from.EU, old DC meant around 140-170 ms for me, which often enough meant that oGCD use was wonky, and in case of playing Healer, caused issues with 'stance dance', or caused my DRG to do DRG things like drop BotD or die.

If my connection now drops to 200+ latency, I'm going to unsub, unless SE pays for the 'Gamer VPN' for me, or provides a no-restrictions chartransfer for free.

This is why SE gave out FREE transfers to EU players way back so they can play on their datacenter. It's not SE's fault EU players decide to play on NA servers (for whatever reason) after making a datacenter just for EU. You're not entitled to a free transfer that boat has sailed.

[ErryK]

This is why SE gave out FREE transfers to EU players way back so they can play on their datacenter.

They gave out free transfers for those who were playing within the Chaos datacenter to move out to the other datacenters, not the other way round... but they really should have.

[AlexanderFelwinter]

They gave out free transfers for those who were playing within the Chaos datacenter to move out to the other datacenters, not the other way round... but they really should have.

Ah I see my apologies then I just looked it up and yeah it was that way. Could've sworn when they moved it they gave EU players the chance to move there, but yeah I agree they should have done it the other way around for sure. Still though it's unfortunate but it's the risk someone takes when they step out of their region and take the chance playing in another.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

I'm east coast....went from 30-40 to 80-90. Still 2 digits, so probably won't notice a difference in actual gameplay.

[Bizzy]

I think most of the high pings are due to the way your ISP routes your internet traffic. Seems like they like to take the longest route possible. So before going off the bandwagon and blaming SE, please check the way that your ISP routes your internet traffic.

Also, I believe that it could depend on how old your equipment that you use to connects to the internet. Things to question is: Is your Cable/DSL modem new or order? How old is the Cable or Phone line going from the pole to your home? Things do wear out over time and doesn't perform to it's standards and should be replaced. Plus, if you have all newer equipment, that doesn't mean that your ISP has newer equipment. All we know is that they can be using outdated stuff and also that can effect your performance even if you have newer equipment at your house or where you live.

But I do feel for the people who plays outside of the US that plays on the NA Servers. I feel that no matter where SE placed the Servers, it wouldn't of gotten any better for you.

[anryo]

...But I do feel for the people who plays outside of the US that plays on the NA Servers. I feel that no matter where SE placed the Servers, it wouldn't of gotten any better for you.

Well, maybe it wouldnt get any better, but they actually made WAY worse for a lot of people. Ok, its better for some people from US, but honestly, going from 90 to 50 is basically a 0 difference, gameplaywise. Meanwhile, my ping went from 180 to 260. Its already not so easy to adapt to a high ping, specially if you raid or if you use classes that have a lot of double weaving skills and shit like that on rotation. But with 260 ping its honestly really REALLY hard and probably not even worth to try.
Thanks SE. Very good move.

[SeraphicRadiance]

I think most of the high pings are due to the way your ISP routes your internet traffic. Seems like they like to take the longest route possible. So before going off the bandwagon and blaming SE, please check the way that your ISP routes your internet traffic.



But I do feel for the people who plays outside of the US that plays on the NA Servers. I feel that no matter where SE placed the Servers, it wouldn't of gotten any better for you.

That is reality for the US ISPs. Square Enix should have known this. The reality is that the ISPs give less of a crap than Square Enix does, and that's pretty sad.

And no amount of equipment is going to change this. So thus, I place all blame on Square Enix at this time for their ridiculous decision.

[Hestzhyen]

That is reality for the US ISPs. Square Enix should have known this. The reality is that the ISPs give less of a crap than Square Enix does, and that's pretty sad.

And no amount of equipment is going to change this. So thus, I place all blame on Square Enix at this time for their ridiculous decision.

I don't blame them at all for upgrading the servers. We're going to be seeing the benefits very soon with Stormblood. More capacity and power is not a bad thing at all.

I do not agree, however, with the radio silence about where the new servers will be until we find out for ourselves. They could have avoided a lot of panic and ill-will by disclosing the state or general area in the initial announcement. However, we will have to wait and see. The quality of the new hardware and the infrastructure immediately surrounding it could well outweigh the increased distance for many people.