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[Sida]

I can't believe the amount of EU players whining about their latency and threatening to quit.

When the EU data servers were moved/created, you chose to stay on the NA servers for whatever reasons you did.

Someone mentioned it earlier in this thread so I checked the old announcement. There was free move -away- from Chaos, but not for moving into it. So if people had done their characters to any other datacenter while they resided in the same place, they would have had to pay for the move anyway.

[SirFujimoto]

Comparing

neolobby02.ffxiv.com - 204.2.229.9

to

Aether: 199.91.189.74

Looks like I went from 43ms to 96ms :/

Although the trace completed significantly faster when testing the CA ip.

[Rokke]

110ms -> 36ms
bless u cali

[Mhaeric]

Okay, now that the servers are live, I've confirmed Balmung's IP to be 204.2.229.82 and here's my results from a ping and tracert which appears to confirm Sacramento:

C:\Users\#####>ping 204.2.229.82

Pinging 204.2.229.82 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 204.2.229.82: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=53
Reply from 204.2.229.82: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=53
Reply from 204.2.229.82: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=53
Reply from 204.2.229.82: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 204.2.229.82:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 39ms, Maximum = 49ms, Average = 45ms

C:\Users\#####>tracert 204.2.229.82

Tracing route to 204.2.229.82 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     3 ms    10 ms     8 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    19 ms    14 ms    19 ms  24.86.64.1
  3    16 ms    29 ms    63 ms  rd3st-tge0-4-0-1-1.vc.shawcable.net [64.59.147.205]
  4   104 ms    19 ms    24 ms  rc2wt-be50-1.wa.shawcable.net [66.163.70.106]
  5    23 ms    26 ms    29 ms  xe-0-5-0-17.r04.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.197.17]
  6    19 ms    26 ms    20 ms  ae-5.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.7]
  7    46 ms     *       40 ms  ae-3.r23.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.124]
  8    46 ms    41 ms    48 ms  ae-45.r01.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.175]
  9    47 ms    38 ms    44 ms  ae-1.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.31]
 10    48 ms    40 ms    47 ms  xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [129.250.195.46]
 11    43 ms   171 ms   129 ms  204.2.229.234
 12    50 ms    49 ms    49 ms  204.2.229.82

Trace complete.

So, I went from ~90 ping from Montreal to ~45 ping from Sacramento.

[Mhaeric]

From Van too, what is your ISP?

I still have packet losses with Telus, feelsbad

I'm with Shaw.

[Uzephi]

Looks like SE managed to make the worst possible decision and the servers are indeed in CA. Good job guys.

Your fall is my gain? I went from 190+ to under 40. Kinda like it.

[Karen_Cerfrumos]

I can't believe the amount of EU players whining about their latency and threatening to quit. Stop being entitled whiners.

Pff haha what am I reading? Entitled?
The game is a product. If it no longer satisfies people, they are well within their rights to complain or to refuse to pay for the product any further, or purchase any expansions.
We chose to stay on NA and play with people we know because it was working fine, and now it might no longer be the case. How does that make us at all entitled to expect good service from a product we pay for?

[anryo]

I can't believe the amount of EU players whining about their latency and threatening to quit.

...

SE doesn't owe you free playtime or transfers because you chose to ignore going over to your region. They made your servers local so you didn't have to connect to Montreal, and you made your choice. SE did not intentionally do this just to wrong you. Stop being entitled whiners.

And what do you suggest to SA players, O wise one?

[SeraphicRadiance]

Pff haha what am I reading? Entitled?
The game is a product. If it no longer satisfies people, they are well within their rights to complain or to refuse to pay for the product any further, or purchase any expansions.
We chose to stay on NA and play with people we know because it was working fine, and now it might no longer be the case. How does that make us at all entitled to expect good service from a product we pay for?

This. Just because some may be open to the idea of leaving their friends behind (if they had any at all) does not necessarily mean others are willing to throw their friendships away to transfer off.

[anryo]

And just saying it one more time. People who got a better connection now are people who went from 90 to 70 or from 90 to 40. This will not make any difference on your game, srsly. Anything under 100 is basically the same shit. But I can assure you that people that went from 150 to 250+ are totally screwed up. And if you guys think its funny, dont forget that everyone uses DF too. So enjoy lots of dps eating 100% more AoE.