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

[dragonseth07]

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.

If only ping and packet loss were the same... Wait, they're not. The new location is HUGE for this. Everyone is seeing an improvement in packet loss, regardless of where they are. Higher ping sucks, but try playing. Packet loss is a huge cause of many people's issues.

[Fourbestintoner]

Downgrade for Canadians.
Downgrade for east coast.
Downgrade for EU.
Downgrade for South America.
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.

[SteadiestShark]

Omg that's awful! It seems a lot of us are going to Odin.

I'm still yet to test it as I'm at work but I won't hesitate to move to another server if the latency is too noticeable

Is Odin more English-speaking (or UK-based) than the other EU servers? I may consider moving there if I find Gilga unenjoyable. Going to stick it out for a while though at least, hopefully the routing will improve...

[cakesphere]

If only ping and packet loss were the same... Wait, they're not. The new location is HUGE for this. Everyone is seeing an improvement in packet loss, regardless of where they are. Higher ping sucks, but try playing. Packet loss is a huge cause of many people's issues.

I was having little to no packet loss through vpn previously, so this is nothing but a net loss for me. Tripled my ping without VPN, doubled with

Switch ISPs or move. Internet infrastructure out in the boonies is going to suck, period. Wouldn't have mattered much if they'd put the DC in Chicago if your ISP has garbage infrastructure.

And on that note, why are you complaining about sub-100ms ping when there are people with legitimate grievances complaining about 200+?

Just because my issue is smaller than others doesn't make it any less of a downgrade for me. I can still -barely- double weave if I'm slamming my buttons as fast as possible, but I absolutely cannot raiton anymore as it clips horribly into my GCD. Packet loss reduction means little to me if I still need to use a VPN to get a decent connection. I was hoping to drop it because I wouldn't be routed through level3 anymore, no such luck.

I have friends that it's even worse for (SMN buddy's ping quadrupled and he struggles to properly do his opener now. He does not have the expendable income to afford a VPN for one game) so I speak for them too.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Is Odin more English-speaking (or UK-based) than the other EU servers? I may consider moving there if I find Gilga unenjoyable. Going to stick it out for a while though at least, hopefully the routing will improve...

Interested in knowing this too, if the game is just unplayable now I may have to make the rather painful choice to move and I'd rather not get an experience of trying to communicate with people like I'm playing Dota2.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

*snip* 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).*snip*

I am not unsympathetic to your plight, just wanted to nitpick a bit: FC transfer is coming, and IIRC SE said anyone transferring to one of the new EU servers they're building will not only do so for free they'll fully refund your house.

[Arcsol93]

My question is to people here after reading a majority of these posts....it sounds like you haven't even tried playing yet. Why don't you actually test it out in a trial or a raid and see what happens? My ping went up but my lag improved considerably. I see all of these complaints but no proof of there being any difficulty in game. If it's that bad, record a video of a raid or anything that is net heavy and make a feedback thread for the devs to see. If you want them to take action, don't just sit on here and whine, actually show your difficulty in game, or be quiet. Simple as that.

[JenofWildfire]

let me pet my 0% packet loss like its that cat from inspector gadget while I laugh maniacally

Same here, I live just over two hours north of Sacramento and my ping is between 45-55 with no packet loss.

[Gumbercules]

This is the real benefit of the move people are overlooking: I had a shitload of packet loss with Montreal and I live in western MI. I can still tracert a Montreal server from here and get a lot of packet loss (thanks Level 3, you guys suck).

Meanwhile my tracert to Cali gives me stable 75ms, no dropped packets, and I route from Chicago directly to San Jose and ultimately wind up in Sacramento every time.

Yeah when i BLM I used to get my mana cost "tally" screwed up so much, I did sometimes have as high as 20% packet loss though XD Hopefully this stops happening now, or at the very least becomes a rarity not a guaranteed occurrence XD

[Aethaeryn]

Playing from NYC and I've got a ping of 30 ms

How is that even possible? You were probably getting 30 when they were still in Montreal, but you should be around 85-90 now. The lowest I've seen anyone from NYC have so far is 85, and that's on fios. I'm in Buffalo and I'm getting 130 because it routes me to NYC then to Seattle then goes to Sacramento rather than taking a straight path. Hopefully that'll be fixed sooner rather than later.

Your ping to the speedtest servers is not the same as the ping to FFXIV.