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

[Jxnibbles]

West coast most likely... Yay ping increase.

[KommandantLuna]

They should help people move who have been badly affected by this, it's on them to do so. Many EU players will suffer the worst from this, but it's simply most of all a strange choice from SE to move across an entire country instead of centralising.

[Zojha]

They offered free transfers to players currently in the EU servers because the EU servers were jumping across the Atlantic, from Montreal to Germany. NA servers are only moving to a neighbouring country.

The distance between Montreal and Sacramento would be 4k km.
The distance between Montreal and Frankfurt are 5,8k km.

"Neighboring country" is playing it down a tad. Pingwise, it's a similar ballpark.

[Ghastly]

I feel so bad for our European friends who play on the NA datacenters T_T I know a few of them...feel so bad *hugs them all*
Hope it's not so bad for us in the east coast...

[RukiaFae]

I pinged 66 to the old aether ip just now. If it goes up by 50 like people say it will, it will be 116 ping. Thats less than what the game was designed for so im a bit relieved and i live in the Carolinas.

I live in the Carolinas too. Hello neighbor. I hope the change isn't drastic. I have already have a slight delay. I don't need this to increase.

[MuseTraveller]

I feel so bad for our European friends who play on the NA datacenters T_T I know a few of them...feel so bad *hugs them all*
Hope it's not so bad for us in the east coast...

Your hugs are welcomed. ;_; I dread checking the ping when servers are up as I get 240 to CA.

[BorisDaBlade]

Everyone, it's gonna be ok. I'm on the west coast. I'll just heal you through the aoe's.

I never really suffered any noticeable lag, but I don't use fancy ping trackers or traceroutes, so I don't know what my decrease is gonna be. If it is Sacramento, I'm only 500 miles away.

I do have to say though, I haven't seen anyone on the forums complaining about 90002 drops for a few months, but that could be the lack of players prior to SB.

[Nerisu]

I had 250+ ping playing from SEA region and have had no problems dodging AoEs (I do experience a bit of GCD clipping when double weaving, though). The move might bring it down to 170-200 which will most likely be unnoticeable for me but there's still the chance that it might make the game unplayable. If that happens I will either have to transfer to a JP data center (if they give us a free one + lift the gil restriction) or just quit.

[Shadowshinra]

I'm a UK player that used to play on Masamune so I had like 250 Ping, now on cactuar and my ping is around 90, I doubt the move will take me to JP server levels so I'll be used to the difference but still, CA is a odd move for sure, curious why they chose it.

[Texa]

The move there makes sense since SE's main English offices are located in California. Having the servers close to vital American staff would probably make it easier to get big issues dealt with quickly.