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

[NessaWyvern]

I went from the 260 ping to 180 ping, I no longer have to pay extra every month to make this game playable. I for one, love the change

[Semmi]

My latency more than doubled, from 40ms to 100-120, with more stuttering (tiny lag spikes) than before. This feels objectively worse.

[timwind]

My ping is increased from 60ms to 100ms (NJ). I do not see any issue and will give a few weeks before jump into any conclusion.

[RubyCirha]

eh yoshida already said if your under 200 then your fine in this game over that you start experiencing problems so chill people and honestly atleast were not as bad as some of the pings ive seen from australia

edit: also the servers are new give it some time there in a new zone on the map there will obviously need to be some adjustments on the server side of things to alleviate some of these problems

[CatStarPrime]

What IP are you all targeting for your pings/traces?

[RaijinSupreme]

on the east coast, Florida. Play on PS4. literally no change at all.

[timwind]

Give them a few weeks before you stop playing. I believe SE will work with NTT to improve the route.

[Kalsoa]

I went from 35 ms to 105 ms, so a triple increase. None too pleased. And that's using WTFast, would be 120 ms otherwise.

[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.

[Texa]

I'm in north Texas and mine's at 90 now last I checked.