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

[Stormfur]

I'm on the east coast, and with the Montreal servers, it seems my ping was around 45 ms. Now it's in the 90s. I'm not complaining, since I don't notice any discernible difference but I'd genuinely like to know how much of a difference those extra 45 ms or so actually makes for most people?

[Pence]

I definitely can't play nin or blm anymore unless I want to be trash at them, 100ms+ being playable is a total lie, only paladin is unaffected.
Shame they were they were the jobs I loved the most, but now swiftcast is not working properly and everything clip on nin, time to become a drg main.

I'm a MCH, from Australia....I raided the first savage tier of Alex with 220ms (Sarganatas) - including AS3. Did it take more time for me to learn fights? No. I learnt the fights at the same time as my team. Even so much as using blank on a bomb in AS2 as part of our strat. My DPS was on par with the community - and at times above. In PVP I'd often get praise for my healing abilities, playing against players in the US/Canada. I consider myself an average player in Aus.

Maybe you are just not as good as you thought you were, and need to practice more under your new game breaking ping? Or try another game. Zelda is fun.

[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.

[dragonseth07]

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

What? Don't you know that all Legacy players lived 5 miles from the old server and literally no one lives out west? It's common knowledge!

[anryo]

None, anything under 100 is as smooth as it could be.

[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.

[SpiritMuse]

You got old customers, loyals.

People who have been around years before you even registered... people who played perfectly fine over there, together; the people who actually gave you this game (by supporting 1.0 no matter what).

Fast forward a few years, and then someone random like you posts this.

It is a sad world indeed.

You've got new customers, excited.

People who are just starting out... people who are wanting to have an exciting new experience, together; the people who will continue to pay for this game in the future (and with their added money make it ever more profitable).

And then someone random like you posts this.

It is a sad world indeed.

Seriously though. Just because you've been playing his game for a while doesn't mean newer players owe you anything.

[anryo]

Are these terrible ping times you (and others from SA) are seeing while using a VPN?

I can post my tracert if you want, just people from telefonica ISP are having these routing problems. Other people from SA are having bad ping anyway cause the underwater cables that connect SA to US goes to the east coast anyway. So by my tracert it goes basically. Brazil > New York > Seattle > California.
I went from 160 ping, which was ok, I could do progression, and I've been raiding since second coil (took a break on alex since I didnt enjoy it much, but cleared Creator Savage nonethless) to 235ms, which is REALLY REALLY hard to accept, specially on classes like BRD (my main).
So yeah, they screwed us up big time, there's no way around it.

[Emerald_Swords]

Try to use pingzapper, it's helped me a little bit.

[Amiral_Benson]

[...] there's no way around it.

Maybe there is one, go post here: Changes-to-FFXIV-Net-code-could-make-most-Ping-issues-Irrelevant!