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

[Scott]

Go look it up SE made plenty of posts about this.

Maybe You should Look It up. Your statement is False.

[cakesphere]

Ping on the east coast is borderline unplayable even with a VPN. Why on EARTH did they move it to west coast rather than central? I thought for sure it was going to end up in Chicago

Went from approx. 50ms using WTFast to 89ms. Without WTFast I'd be over 100ms. Thanks for nothing SE. Guess I won't be playing BRD anytime soon.

[EdgeFayth]

Ping on the east coast is borderline unplayable even with a VPN.

Went from approx. 50ms using WTFast to 89ms.

borderline unplayable 89ms.

Are you serious?
I was raiding from West coast to our previous server location (so Montreal) with 120 ms ping...

[cakesphere]

Are you serious?
I was raiding from West coast to our previous server location (so Montreal) with 120 ms ping...

GL double weaving with 100+ latency js

I was getting 50ms before so this is a pretty big jump to the point I cannot play SMN/BRD effectively. I'm also having issues properly slidecasting on BLM It will be a pretty big adjustment for me and I may just drop BRD as my secondary class altogether.

It will be interesting to see if player performance in the east coast/europe overall goes down due to this.

[MistakeNot]

Ping on the east coast is borderline unplayable even with a VPN. Why on EARTH did they move it to west coast rather than central? I thought for sure it was going to end up in Chicago

Went from approx. 50ms using WTFast to 89ms. Without WTFast I'd be over 100ms. Thanks for nothing SE. Guess I won't be playing BRD anytime soon.

100ms ping is actually quite good, so I don't see what you are complaining about. (50 ms is very good.)

Packet travel time from US east coast to west coast (based on distance alone and ignoring routing delays) is approximately 14ms.
Placing the servers in between would thus change latency by a whole 7ms.

Most people will of course see bigger differences in latency, but that is not due to geographic location, but is all due to how ISPs and carriers handle and route the packets.

[Kosmos992k]

Ping on the east coast is borderline unplayable even with a VPN. Why on EARTH did they move it to west coast rather than central? I thought for sure it was going to end up in Chicago

Went from approx. 50ms using WTFast to 89ms. Without WTFast I'd be over 100ms. Thanks for nothing SE. Guess I won't be playing BRD anytime soon.

Oh you poor dear....

Talk about first world problems....

[ElasmoFan]

This seems to be pretty great for Australians though.
I also do agree it should have been central though seeing people complain about 90 to 100 ping when west coast had that same issue before is a little funny.
Not saying just swapping it fixed anything but ultimately they didn't do this for ping but to prep for SB and it's features which hopefully it will fix (though I still don't get why they couldn't find a central location that had those same features, I can't imagine having a headquarters near their server makes that big a difference).

[Exiled_Tonberry]

White Knights on high alert I see.

EU have every right to be upset if they feel their ping increased too much for them personally.
I wouldn't outright quit the game as long as I could still enjoy myself, but I would be upset.

[EUSerena]

White Knights on high alert I see.

EU have every right to be upset if they feel their ping increased too much for them personally.
I wouldn't outright quit the game as long as I could still enjoy myself, but I would be upset.

We are, but what can we really do?
There is still no word on a free transfer option.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

We are, but what can we really do?
There is still no word on a free transfer option.

Except there literally is word on the lodestone and its been posted in the forums as well.