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[BloodRubyXII]

Why wouldn't they?
High latency Ninja is so unpleasant to play, if that were my main I'd be absolutely livid.

Almost anything melee is unpleasant to play with latency, especially with positional requirements. I was orig on Gilga as an EU player, played DRK moved to Odin and was blown away by how smooth using OGCD abilities was.

[anryo]

I'm not great at geography but didn't the servers used to be in like Canada or something? If so I'd have thought you were better off now cos I thought California is closer to Brazil than Canada lol.

Thats not how it works, internet packets need to go on routes, and there's basically no good routes to USW, since SA cables go mostly by the sea to NY region or whatever.

[Kyouki]

Thanks @SteadistShark.

Good to see that there is still empathy in the community

@DJaySaint

You are a *insert random insult here*. You do not care about the ppl you have played with. You do not care about their ping, why should SE or anyone else care about what YOU want.

There are things that YOU could do to improve your ping. If you are on the east coast and your ping is that bad, maybe stop downloading stuff while you play or maybe tweak your registry. The person that is crying the loudest here is you. I pay the same amount for the service as you and there has never been a "you are european, STAY ON YOUR SIDE OF THE WORLD" server restriction.

And what about the NA citizens, that are living in the EU because their company sent them there for a few years? Did they lose the right to play on NA servers too?

I always thought that real gamers stick together. But MINE and THE OTHERS is a big deal now in america, right?

[BloodRubyXII]

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Whilst I see where you're coming from, it is you that is trying too hard to be insulting and edgy and in fairness, you are succeeding. Even if we take 1.0 out of the equation, when ARR came out EU servers were not actually physically located in Europe, so for a lot of us it didn't really matter where we played we were basically choosing between Canada (NA) or Japan. So I originally played on a US server for several years. Over time EU players have built friendships and FCs on those servers, there is no simple case of just "leaving" - we do not have guild transfer in this game you have to manually tear down everything you've built up and start it over (oh, you have an FC house? Good luck finding a free plot after you move). But in your seething rage you lack compassion so I guess making this point is wasted on you.

Now I'm not saying SE should accommodate that because at the end of the day, NA servers are for players where it's geographically optimal for them to play on NA. I'm just saying it goes a bit deeper than choice which by the way, we didn't have. And it isn't free for those players to leave either, which it should have especially been after the move.

[BloodRubyXII]

I doubt VPNs would help much - VPN servers help against routing issues, but don't do much when it comes to sheer distance.

South american players who are currently being routed over Amsterdam would benefit a lot from one >.>

Ye it seems routing is a large issue for LA players atm, as well as even some East coast players.

[Mukouda]

From 180ms to 250+.
I don't know.
This looking bad man.

[Dyvid]

Sorry OP but this is what I considered unplayable:

[Gaiussenpai]

And people who are 95th plus on drg, mch and bard are saying they had worse ping such as 130-200 when they got them.

Really gets the neurons firing.

[Diggsworth]

Oh I don't think you read her post. There's a way to go about expressing disdain, then there's calling everyone in California a commie. Lol.

Oh I read it :P
Politics has a time and a place, and although the FFXIV forums aren't one of them, they're not entirely off base.

[Faliandra]

That is correct I am a day one alpha player, servers were located in japan.



Friends/house/gil is the main reason why i don't wanna switch. I got to know a hand full of ppl that i care for a lot. Enough to travel all the way to NY and GA last year

It is not the language "barrier" that i fear... It is simply... FF has always been english for me. For more than 13 years including FFXI. I played with japanese ppl in XI and i really hated to see my name, not knowing what they were talking about. So i started to learn japanese and i don't wanna go through languages again. I am german but i prefer the english language. In games, on TV, everywhere (I even spoke english after i woke up from surgery ).

i am german too, and I avoid 99% of other germans like the plague because I hate how some of them dont speak english...so whenever I would bring other people who dont speak german, they'd be left out.
And besides, frankly speaking, I have only ever had bad experience with the german player community, so i dont miss it at all. But again, as I said...there are plenty of servers where there'd be zero issues language-wise.
Most french ppl are on moogle, and most germans on shiva. But yeah, besides that, I absolutely understand why you wouldnt wanna leave your server behind.