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[-BlueGreen-]

Those ip locator sites are a joke. Try this one https://www.iplocation.net/ which will query multiple services at the same time. Using neolobby02.ffxiv.com [204.2.229.9] I see...
Greenwood Village Colorado
Michigan (no city, although earlier it said Troy)
Dallas Texas
Lebanon Kentucky

All at the same time. Interestingly, none say anything about California, but at least 3 of the services they list show that the DB they use was updated either May 1st or 2nd meaning those results wouldn't reflect reality anyway because the servers just moved within the last 48 hours.

On the other hand tracert doesn't attempt to tell you where the IP actually is, but the names some of those hops resolve to...
ae-0.r23.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
ae-45.r01.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net (last named hop)

Looks to me like it goes to Dallas, then San Jose, then finally Sacramento before doing the final two hops to the destination. Could it be going some place completely different? Sure, but I doubt it.

So, as for those ip locator sites, it's like they put a map of the US on the wall, have a 5 year old toss some darts on it and return that as a result. That, or because the servers changed IP addresses as part of the move, those locations listed on those sites might be rough locations of the previous owners of said IP addresses.

[Kethic]

I also get Seattle to San Jose to Sacramento in the tracert for now, or Philly to 'asbn' Virginia to San Jose to Sacramento. At the moment, the IP is routed to Sacramento. Maybe in 2 hours it'll change. (shrug)

[RokkuEkkusu]

To put my perspective in this, I live in Hawaii. I didn't have much trouble playing FFXIV despite the servers being in Montreal at the time (which is very far from Hawaii BTW).

The game ran smoothly, I can dodge aoes, and I can do my rotations smoothly.

I am not sure if a location change will significantly affect my gameplay.

[savageink]

I also get Seattle to San Jose to Sacramento in the tracert for now, or Philly to 'asbn' Virginia to San Jose to Sacramento. At the moment, the IP is routed to Sacramento. Maybe in 2 hours it'll change. (shrug)

LOL! This is why I was saying wait for the servers to come up and get optimized. Even when the servers come up and you can log in and get an in game ping screen, it doesn't mean the routing will have set in place yet. People expect everything to work faster than it does in reality. That 24 hours might be the best advice in this thread.