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

[Amiral_Benson]

That being said, from raiding experience purposes, some weeks ago, I did a tiny test on dummies, naked BRD lvl 60 on Moogle (30ms), and naked BRD lvl 60 on Excalibur (112ms), and it was an average of 5% loss in DPS.
I'm expecting this to be worse now with this new location.

But this could be fixed regardless of the ping.

I'm gonna quote someone who explained it better than I can:

[Vespar]

I'm not asking for perfect ping, I'm asking for a decent experience for everyone. Moving the servers from one side of NA to the other only flips the disparity. A central location would undoubtedly result in reduced performance for East Coast also, but it's better overall for the whole playerbase as it provides a more equivalent experience for those on the extreme sides of the continent.

Folks can gripe all they want about it, but I cant see them moving it again anytime soon. It is a bit ridiculous seeing folks whine and complain about how their 100ms ping is so terrible and unplayable. PLEASE! I played this game on 200-250+ ping and never had issues and some people have higher ping than that and still manage! If folks with 300 ping can make it out of aoes, so can folks at 100ms pings.

The game isnt unplayable, folks are just whining over a number that isnt as significant as they'd have you believe.

[Amiral_Benson]

From Reddit:

There's absolutely no reason why anybody - raider, casual, hardcore, world-first, whatever - should have to feel bad about a <100ms ping. The base GCD of the game is 2.5 seconds, rarely dips below 2.0 for the fastest classes, and nobody is really asking to do more than 2 actions in between (or 3 actions in 2.0 seconds, an average of ~0.67 seconds each).

The fact that an extra 0.05s of latency has a dramatic impact on actions spaced 0.67s apart, a full order of magnitude longer, is totally f***** up, and could absolutely be fixed by SE if they decided that it was enough of a priority to do so. The only way they're going to get to the point where they feel that it's enough of a priority to fix is going to be if they get enough pressure from the playerbase to rethink the way that the game's client and server communicate when you use skills.

[Amiral_Benson]

I would love to see Square Enix taking care of that problem, the same way they did it already with NIN Mudra a while ago.
This would be fantastic, and this new location wouldn't matter anymore.

[PharisHanasaki]

I was kidding. Trying to counter all this MY PING WENT UP spam.
What can we do? You think it's cheap to transfer servers? Think we got time to make them change their mind before SB hits? 48 more hours of maintenance?
If they do move at some point, it won't be anytime soon.

[SteadiestShark]

i am on odin and all in my FC is UK players and i have a bunch on my FL

Good to know. How is the chat - is almost everyone writing in english too?

[Kyouki]

I was playing during the day. While most germans were still at work or school and most americans were still asleep the latency was ok. Not perfect, not good but ok. I was able to heal a roulette without any deaths etc.

Then i ran a roulette in EU prime time with more NA's online. In Idyllshire i tried to open my retainer dialog, started to count "one, two, th" pop... Then i went to the lonely Mist's MB, wishlist... "one, two" pop...

I checked my ressource monitors latency and found myself at 200-220. I'm sorry, i am out at this point. If the ping won't get better because of routing/DNS/whatever they said here in the forums then i'm done.

I don't wanna start over on a new server with a new community. What am i supposed to do on an empty server? Ppl usually move to more populated servers, not to empty ones.

[Koltik]

Folks can gripe all they want about it, but I cant see them moving it again anytime soon. It is a bit ridiculous seeing folks whine and complain about how their 100ms ping is so terrible and unplayable. PLEASE! I played this game on 200-250+ ping and never had issues and some people have higher ping than that and still manage! If folks with 300 ping can make it out of aoes, so can folks at 100ms pings.

The game isnt unplayable, folks are just whining over a number that isnt as significant as they'd have you believe.

The world used to also watch 480p movies on VHS for years, try doing it now that you've seen 1080p + 4K. It looks like trash.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Im from germany. and had around 110ping - Montreal
Now I has around 180-200 from Sacramento and I actually dont notice any difference o__o

I spammed Mudras as Ninja + played there rotation. Did a Dun Scaith.
Everything was like usual. o:

I hope many other people can still play too!

For casual runs, that ping will most likely be fine. It's when you enter savage that it MAY be an issue.
Basically the ping increase is only going to effect raiders. Everyone else is fine.

[Hey123]

A lot of people from south america will quit it literally got unplayable to us , and im pretty sure we are a large part of the comunity , its sad to see the few people who profit tho making such a ruckus to discredit everyone who is tryng to get something better instead of support now that they got what they wanted...