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

[Kosmos992k]

Yes I'm looking something like VPN I'm completely oblivious as to how it works or what does it do.im wired too.

VPN is something that PS4 can't do on it's own, you've have to VPN via a PC and then bridge the PS4 to the VPN via that PC. Some routers might support the use of a VPN service, I've never really looked into that.

You can also badger the heck out of your ISP about ping times and bad routing and ask them to optimize. They may/may not do anything. However it's possible that they could help the situation if there is some bad routing in their network, bu optimizing it.

[Airget]

All this talk of ping I am reminded of the Adult Swim Robot Chicken sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wh-2aAC28w

[TomExcalibur]

Also EU player and the Delay on everything is much worse now! i dont want to have to move servers It will brake Friendships / Static's and oh wait it would get rid of eld

But yes SE should look into this!

[Mature]

Thanks I'm gonna have to look into this. It might improve my ping on PS4 a bit

[MishaLune]

The only way to get around that is to use a VPN. One of them that i tried was also getting redirected to europe (mudfish) and the other lowers it to 150ms ping. Without a vpn the traffic gets redirected to europe which is stupid since it should use the shortest route available when possible.

[Sousoulsu]

I'm glad people are responding positively to this. Since 2.0, I've been saying that XIV's got some kind of weird netcode going on, and people always told me I was wrong or my internet sucks.

I think after the server move, people are finally beginning to understand that there's something wonky going on under the hood.

Hmm, my suspicion was that this was the case. You may be interested in reading this tumblr post, which is about a certain thing that was made to counteract this problem of server validation and ping tax, but for a different MMO.

I fall into the category that FFXIV is clunky and slow. I'm used to being able to rapidly cast skills one after another and being able to animation cancel a lot of my skills, so it just feels somewhat slow to me. Like if I don't have any oGCDs to cast, I'm literally sitting there either waiting for the GCD to reach under a quarter of its duration, or I'm spamming the skill (if I don't want to look at my hotbar). From what I understand, WoW has a much shorter GCD (1-1.5s).

Thanks for that link, it's a very interesting read. Bookmarked and will be sharing it, as it expresses issues with online games and how they deliver information between clients and servers with a lot of clarity.

[Kethic]

If you think the move was pointless, you may have missed the point of the move.

[Uzephi]

Maybe SE wanted to do some spring cleaning and attract more west coast players? ping before move on this side of the country was 130+ sometimes spiking to 180. Now it's between 30 and 50. How the tables turned. It will show the good players from the ones banking on sub 70ms... Just saying, some players have had above 100 ms and played just fine.

[Cherie]

If you think your ping is bad now (and you are in the USA), just wait for next month where congress votes to get rid of the net neutrality laws. Then if you wanna play games online, you'll have to pay the ISP for the nice speed/routing. Otherwise, it's all slow speed... ; ; (as I understand it anyway, politics doesn't make a lot of sense to me)

[Ama_Hamada]

Maybe SE wanted to do some spring cleaning and attract more west coast players? ping before move on this side of the country was 130+ sometimes spiking to 180. Now it's between 30 and 50. How the tables turned. It will show the good players from the ones banking on sub 70ms... Just saying, some players have had above 100 ms and played just fine.

Or maybe, SE does not know putting artificial delays on things and putting high ping on top of that would annoy people.