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[Kaizersan]

Put your money where your mouth is people. The only way Square Enix will change the data center at this point is if you make it clear they wont receive funding for their game until they do so.

Are you going to buy the necessary property for them to run the servers from?

[Inue]

Well, I went from 260 ping to 180 ping (New Zealander here) So I don't plan to boycott. I finally don't have to pay extra money every month to play the same game as you guys. Especially since I don't expect an AU server any time soon, if ever.

it kinda surprises me that there isnt an AU server. ive looked around and there seems to be a lot of Australians that play this game that have gripes about server locations.

[Astrapls]

Atlantic Canada, went from 30ms to 150ms. Routing is awful.
Using WTFast or similar programs I drop to about 97ms with much better routing.

Just sucks essentially adding another $10 a month to my monthy sub. Especially with the USD to CAD exchange.

[Kaizersan]

honestly that sounds like the best decision really.
because of this move my ping has shot up to 170, and i'm still in the states. my girlfriend, who lives in the EU, now has to transfer out because of how unplayable it is.
i may as well quit until Square does something... IF they do something. its better than paying to play alone.
thanks for ruining everything Square. hope you enjoy your stupid vacation property that you just HAD to have instead of getting something in Central America where everyone would benefit. or, you know, having both east and west coast servers like every other friggin' mmo.

Because SE owns the necessary property to run the servers from in California so why wouldn't they use that instead of spending a lot more to buy new offices.

[LunaFaye]

Oh lord no, it wasn't my ping doing that - my partner had no problems at all with the old ping. It was my crap-bucket laptop and the way it struggled to deal with ff14 even on minimal settings that caused the problem, definitely client-side. Which is why I never really complained about it.

Someone bring this man a beer, screw it make it a whole 6 pack. Finally somebody that takes responsibility instead of blaming everybody else and throwing a fit.

[NessaWyvern]

honestly that sounds like the best decision really.
because of this move my ping has shot up to 170, and i'm still in the states. my girlfriend, who lives in the EU, now has to transfer out because of how unplayable it is.
i may as well quit until Square does something... IF they do something. its better than paying to play alone.
thanks for ruining everything Square. hope you enjoy your stupid vacation property that you just HAD to have instead of getting something in Central America where everyone would benefit. or, you know, having both east and west coast servers like every other friggin' mmo.

If I can clear Titan ex with 400 ping without dying at lvl 50, and have played the game mostly at above 180 ping, I am pretty sure you can play at 170ping. It really isn't unplayable. My forehead is so red from all the facepalms at reading comments like these.

[Mirateski]

I'm considering moving to one of the new EU servers that're opening up. I did a few test pings - tested the central wow NA server and it was ~110ms, same as I was getting in montreal, currently ~220+ for NA data centres, and like 35 for Chaos. I was looking forward to learning how to double-weave now I've got a system that can handle it and it's all been snatched away

God help my static if I take SCH into omega on Ultros with that ping, tanking was already a matter of "die until you learn at which millisecond you need to move even though you were clearly out of the AoE two seconds ago"

cross data centre PF when SE

(Going into 12s on Friday, ostensibly to clear with my static, so that'll be hilarious)

[Zelas]

I'm all the way in Eastern Canada (Quebec. Montreal, actually, where the servers used to be) and I see zero difference. If anything, it's better now that I don't get lag spikes all the time...

[BernAlmasy]

went from 150 to 250/260
it still playable, but makes a difference, would expect a paid game to be better handled in that aspect. Hope they fix the route thing.

[Burrowowl]

Respectfully, if VPN is improving your latency, that isn't SE's fault. The new servers are in a well-peered data center and your VPN service is doing a better job routing than your ISP is.