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[Texa]

Not only that, then you have the sweaty boob bills because some people can't comprehend a purse... or at least clothing with pockets. =x

As someone who has worked retail I can tell you quite a few people keep their bills in their sweaty boobs irl.

Still rather do that than count a ziplock baggie full of nickels tho.

@ the actual topic, I'm not gonna but y'all are welcome to if you want.

[Jetstream_Fox]

"NA players should boycott XIV until we get a centralized data center."

That's an awesome idea, in fact they should have servers in each of the major cities in every country all over the world! /s

Cheers,
D.

No but two servers would be ideal, make one east and one west. Even EA gives people an east and west option and EA is notoriously bad with their servers, but at least they understand one central server for all of NA is asking a lot.

Really this issue with the move reminds me of the story about the guy who was to long for his blanket so he cut the top of it and sew it to the bottom. It was a pointless process through and through.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Why would i boycott when my ping dropped and packet loss went to 0.

[ChrisBabaganoosh]

I'll take the slightly higher ping I'm getting in Virginia for no longer being routed through Level3 and having my packet loss virtually eliminated.

[SenorPatty]

We should definitely boycott

Cuz that has worked before in a mmo. Like totes

[Raikki]

I'm not going to quit but honestly what irks me the most is that the exact same company (NTT) has a major brand new datacenter in Dallas they could have used.

[Saito_S]

Okay, some of this is starting to get a little ridiculous. Boycott? Over 100ms? Really.

First off:

Why weren't we boycotting from the start when they were in Montreal? Or was it fine when it was just the west with the (STILL PERFECTLY PLAYABLE) 90-100 ping?

This is a really good point. I'm rapidly losing sympathy for people on the US east coast who are acting like they've been stabbed in the heart over this. I don't remember throngs of people on the west coast acting this way during the 3+ years that the game's servers were ~2500 miles from us. And we've been playing the game just fine during that time.

I hope you just do solo content, cause it'll be really fun with a lot of people screwing up considering how many people are getting higher pings now.

This makes no sense. I AM sympathetic to the plight of South American players, because apparently, some of you have greatly worse ping after the move. (I'm also sympathetic to EU players who've been on an NA server for years and now have to choose whether or not to move). But this statement is nonsense. Some people are getting higher ping, some people are getting lower ping. Everyone on the west coast has improved; everyone on the east coast has been downgraded. This downgrade is not massive. Everyone in the middle is staying more or less the same, for the most part.

Also why are we leaving out the Pacific? Everyone who lives WEST of the continental west coast has gotten a nice break in ping from this. So yeah, South American people may have way worse ping, but Australians and New Zealand'ers and etc. now have much BETTER ping.

Again, I am sympathetic to SA folks. But my point is, this claim (and I've seen this mentioned SEVERAL times now in a few different threads) that those of us whose ping got better better watch out because "so many players" now have worse ping than before is nonsense.

Downgrade for Canadians.

Canadians? You, uh, you are aware that there is more "Canada" west of Ontario, right?

Downgrade for east coast.

Correct. But I've lost most of my sympathy for anyone on the east coast acting like this is the end of their glorious Raiding Career. They now have the ping that I had for years. It's not that big a deal and is more than playable.

Downgrade for EU.

True. As I said in one of the other threads: yeah, this sucks. There's not really a good solution here. Yes, they "should have" simply been playing on the EU servers from the start (even back when they were physically in Montreal, they were still labeled as EU), but it's pretty understandable why many didn't, and why they wouldn't want to leave now, if it's a server they've been playing on for a long time.

Downgrade for South America.

Yep. Again, sucks. No argument.

Upgrade for west coast.

No wonder they didn't want to tell us beforehand.
I should thank Yoshi for removing a job from my list of choices to play, in order to simplify my experience.

You conveniently left out Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Not to mention Mexico - South America may have gotten a downgrade, but a large portion of Mexico got an upgrade, too, and the part that didn't basically stayed the same.

I'm not going to quit but honestly what irks me the most is that the exact same company (NTT) has a major brand new datacenter in Dallas they could have used.

Which would have meant that people in Calgary, Seattle, and Vancouver/Victoria would have worse ping than they do now (all of those places are a shorter distance to Sacramento than they are to Dallas OR to Montreal).

If they had picked Dallas, and people in Vancouver or Calgary or Seattle (with around 100-120ms ping) had created threads on the forums calling for an NA boycott and lambasting this as the worst decision in the history of the game, would all of you on the east coast who are complaining about this be like "yeah, I hear you folks, totally let's boycott, it's not fair that you have to put up with no improvement - and in some cases WORSE ping - after the move!"

Or would you be like "lol come on, your ping isn't that bad. This isn't a big deal. And you can't expect the whole continent to boycott just cause a few areas have worse ping, sheesh."

I think we all know the answer to that.

[Raikki]

If they had picked Dallas, and people in Vancouver or Calgary or Seattle (with around 100-120ms ping) blah blah blah

Montreal -> Dallas: 42ms
Seattle -> Dallas: 53ms
Calgary -> Dallas: 70ms
Vancouver -> Dallas: 89ms

Ya got me on Vancouver. Obviously Dallas is a HORRIBLE place for a datacenter in North America. /s

[Raskbuck]

Montreal -> Dallas: 42ms
Seattle -> Dallas: 53ms
Calgary -> Dallas: 70ms
Vancouver -> Dallas: 89ms

Ya got me on Vancouver. Obviously Dallas is a HORRIBLE place for a datacenter in North America. /s

Not to mention everyone in South America would benefit from it as well. Instead, they increased our ping by the hundreds and there's nothing we can do about it.

[whiteblade89]

All these ping threads just make me think of Mushu from Mulan. "PING!! my best friend Ping!"