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

[Amiral_Benson]

The problem isn't really the ping, it's the net-code of FFXIV that waits for a server permission before allowing you to use an ability, adding a harmful ping-tax to those with high pings, anyone with a ping below ~250ms could have the same responsiveness that someone with a ping of 10ms if SE was willing to make modifications to their net-code.

It's possible to have no DPS loss, a fully responsive game, etc. with high pings, but it requires modifications in the game. Instead of complaining about the new location of the Datacenter, it's more wise I think, to push SE to make adjustments into the game, so that locations doesn't matter in the end, as long as you have a ping below 250ms.
There a new topic about how net-code could fix the ping issue, I encourage you to go there and testify about how the game feels now unresponsive, how you lost DPS, etc. :

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...es-Irrelevant!

[MuseTraveller]

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That was interesting read. With the upcoming changes in the expansion, is there a chance for this issue to be fixed? I understand very little of the technical mojo (obviously) so I'm wondering if such issue is too deeply rooted to be fixed or it's something that could be among the changes in SB?

[Amiral_Benson]

That was interesting read. With the upcoming changes in the expansion, is there a chance for this issue to be fixed? I understand very little of the technical mojo (obviously) so I'm wondering if such issue is too deeply rooted to be fixed or it's something that could be among the changes in SB?

That's the real question MuseTraveller, lots of us believe it could be fixed, because they somehow already fixed in some extend some skills like Mudra.

The thing is, instead of making all this noise about the new Datacenter location, it's better to tackle the root of the problem, and what can be fixed, so that East or West coast location stop to matters, and for this, everyone who feel their game is now not responsive enough, they feel they are losing some DPS, etc. instead of screaming on the Datacenter location, they should go to that net-code topic and give there their support and testimony, make some noise there, and those problems could be solved without having to move again Datacenters.

[Illmaeran]

I play on a Japanese server for personal reasons and live on the US East Coast. Ping from distance to the server etc is real. It does make things like Primals and raids, and even dungeons difficult at times. I'm lucky I'm not a raider or Primal farmer, otherwise I'd be pretty unhappy.

[eschaton]

I play on a Japanese server for personal reasons and live on the US East Coast. Ping from distance to the server etc is real. It does make things like Primals and raids, and even dungeons difficult at times. I'm lucky I'm not a raider or Primal farmer, otherwise I'd be pretty unhappy.

What if it was a sudden and silently forced change, after putting the new expansion pre-porders up first, with no reasonable way to improve or question said situation.

Yup, I'd be pretty triggered as well.

Talking for you people! Nobody deserves this poo on a 1.0 legacy server - somewhere in the middle of the re-launch.

Nobody does.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

Well se and the developers dont care for old players but for the new one that may come or not. We see it all the time.

[eschaton]

Well se and the developers dont care for old players but for the new one that may come or not. We see it all the time.

Stop spreading nonsense as an attempt to troll. It just looks silly.

[Pence]

Well se and the developers dont care for old players but for the new one that may come or not. We see it all the time.

So...you are saying SE constantly makes changes to retain new players and bring in more...and the game continues to run after all these new player/potential players changes....I wonder why they would keep doing it, if it's so bad for their business. Mind boggling. And SE has never shown respect to old players. So your story checks out.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

What if it was a sudden and silently forced change, after putting the new expansion pre-porders up first, with no reasonable way to improve or question said situation.

Yup, I'd be pretty triggered as well.

Talking for you people! Nobody deserves this poo on a 1.0 legacy server - somewhere in the middle of the re-launch.

Nobody does.

Well I'm on a legacy server, as a legacy player, before Balmung even existed, and my ping went down and now I have 0 packet loss. I guess we didn't deserve that though.