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

[cakesphere]

Expanding upon this, here are some pings to that IP (24.105.62.129, Blizzard US Central in Chicago) from backbone servers in various locations:

Portland, OR: 49ms (Northwest US)
San Diego, CA: 54ms (Southwest US)
Boston, MA: 24ms (Northeast US)
Miami, FL: 33ms (Southeast US)
Frankfurt, Germany: 109ms

Residential pings will be a bit higher obviously and may not have as good routes as these. Hopefully it's obvious that not only would a huge percentage of North Americans be getting stellar latency, but the impact on European players may have been reduced significantly enough to allow them to stay on their preferred server.

People saying "100ms is good" just show their ignorance of other online games, really. There's a reason so many other games place their NA servers centrally or run several server locations across the continent.

[Ryuko]

People saying "100ms is good" just show their ignorance of other online games, really. There's a reason so many other games place their NA servers centrally or run several server locations across the continent.

I understand your point, but the thing to remember is that FFXIV was specifically balanced to consider the fact that many players will experience a 100ms+ ping. Other games can afford to demand a quicker reaction time from players because there are more datacenters available to accommodate more regions. SE only has three separate datacenters, and there are many players who are outside of the 'safe' zone of 100ms. This is why 100ms is okay in this game, but not in others. I'm not sure what the 'magic number' is, but I know Yoshi P has been asked about this and specifically mentioned that the game was balanced to accommodate players with higher ping -- but only to a point. I am way too lazy to look it up, but someone else can feel free to post it if they want to. (In case anyone was wondering, this is why those of us on the East Coast were so spoiled -- we could fit a LOT in before running out of an AoE because we knew we had time to do it. Players on the West Coast are going to learn to appreciate that privilege very soon. :P)

[Alyzore]

I'm playing on balmung from EU....i was hoping the jump would be for like 50-60ping...so i would be under 200 (180ish)...but increased to 210~... I started this game to play with my bf..found some nice friends and fc..never played a game with a ping above 180 since for my personal enjoyment is a bit too much. I transfered once to get on balmung...i guess i might have to transfer again to move from it. :/

[Hey123]

I'm playing on balmung from EU....i was hoping the jump would be for like 50-60ping...so i would be under 200 (180ish)...but increased to 210~... I started this game to play with my bf..found some nice friends and fc..never played a game with a ping above 180 since for my personal enjoyment is a bit too much. I transfered once to get on balmung...i guess i might have to transfer again to move from it. :/

At least people from eu have somewhere to transfer i will just have to quit the game

[Riardon]

I'm playing on balmung from EU....i was hoping the jump would be for like 50-60ping...so i would be under 200 (180ish)...but increased to 210~... I started this game to play with my bf..found some nice friends and fc..never played a game with a ping above 180 since for my personal enjoyment is a bit too much. I transfered once to get on balmung...i guess i might have to transfer again to move from it. :/

Well SE warned you at least that it's going to be bad. It's not easy to move to an EU server if you have house and friends but at least after the EU servers moved in Europe you stayed there with your own will and accepted the consequences.
This is what it is and nothing can be done about it.
Anyone playing on the NA servers from EU should seriously and I mean seriously consider to move to an EU server.
If you don't want to move due to friends then you have to accept the consequences it will have to your connection.
As for the housing a new housing area will open soon.
Now is the chance to move.

[Zaods]

Well SE warned you at least that it's going to be bad. It's not easy to move to an EU server if you have house and friends but at least after the EU servers moved in Europe you stayed there with your own will and accepted the consequences.
This is what it is and nothing can be done about it.
Anyone playing on the NA servers from EU should seriously and I mean seriously consider to move to an EU server.
If you don't want to move due to friends then you have to accept the consequences it will have to your connection.
As for the housing a new housing area will open soon.
Now is the chance to move.

yeah sure now is the chance to move, i was just waiting for an occasion to give SE more money as a reward for screwing me so i can move lose my static, friends, house and money, that's truly a service worth paying for

[Mature]

Again, EU people DID NOT get free transfers off of NA. NA people did get them off of EU. We stayed here due to being here for years already, having a community and friends, houses and everything. And the latency was still manageable. Now? It's not. Expecting people to just leave everything behind and try to start afresh is silly when there was no reason to do so until now when we are literally forced to move.

Someone with a brain and sense. Thank you seems some people don't understand what the issue here really is.

[VeliusVire]

Nobody is expecting anyone to do anything, that's like saying 'SEA players are EXPECTED to go to JP DC due to Ping'. I've said it multiple times already across the forums/reddit, if your Ping is not >250ms, then you don't have to go anywhere, because that's the Ping I personally raided and cleared Coil/Savage on. If your Ping is >250, then you're just going to have to either re-learn the game due to timing differences or, alas, transfer. Sorry to say, and I sympathise with the EU players, but venting/complaining is not going to change anything. The best thing you can do is either try and make the situation work the best you can, or do what's optimal for you, not much else that I can think of.

[Coratanni]

I dont know what my ping was before, but it is 27-32 ms now living in San Diego, CA with Cox.net

The game feels a little smoother in Balmung but a friend of mine on the east coast is getting horrible lag. I dont know if there was a correct solution to accommodate everyone unfortunately.

[Kaethra]

Server location for a MMORPG like FFXIV shouldn't matter too much unless there is an extreme (EU playing on JP for example). Key word is 'Shouldn't' mind you.

I've played Crysis (with MWLL overhaul mode) on multiplayer on a server in Germany from the East Coast of the US without much of a hitch. Pings were usually between 150-220 when doing so. Crysis in case some of you don't know is a First Person Shooter. The genre most heavily affected by Ping.

I've also played many other MMORPGs on servers on the west coast. Usually seeing pings of about 80-120.

ESO and FFXIV have some of the worst server performances of locally (in the US) based servers I've ever seen. Even before this move the server latency has been pretty intermittent while other MMOs (EQ, WoW, and others) have been fine. I think SE just doesn't have the experience with maintaining larger clustered server bases. And should probably consider devoting resources to remedying that.

I mean if Daybreak can double their server capacity (from 5,000 to 10,000) and add a queue for their progression servers for their 18 year old games. I'm sure SE could manage something similar.