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

[Airget]

It's as simple as, they can't do the server transfers yet until they add in the new EU servers.

[Gumbercules]

lol 1.0 loyals!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Yoshi-P: "pledge me you loyalty!" 1.0 player: "sir i can't do that..." Yoshi-P: "then you are fired and you better hope I don't have "records" of your logs...."

[Sida]

While my knowledge of internet routing is cursory at best, my question is for those who know the subject better. Could it be feasible to have sort of virtual server for region such as SA, which would be the connect point for players of that region, but it would just pass the traffic through a dedicated routing to the actual server. Could something like this help with the inefficient routing choises? What sort of costs would be related, vs the benefit it possibly gives? Or is it even possible to have something like that?

[XSamsaraLotusX]

First of all i dont havele this problem , i just dont happy people do.
The 200 ping players can be good players but the ping killing it for them.
You can play the game in slide show mode and say its all good.
Now becouse you want to play a game on 150+ ping and think its ok dont make it so.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

They dont mad at you.
Or you say that its ok to give your problem to other people?

[eschaton]

They dont mad at you.
Or you say that its ok to give your problem to other people?

Yup that's the whole discussion going on. (not my problem = solved, weird)

[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?

[Furiea]

Because some people are too hardcore about it

Thing is, this ping discussion is divided into 2 category:

1. The one who got huge increase from 90s to 300s, this one legit and i feel sorry for them because not just their perfomance will drop by huge margin, its pretty much almost unplayable.

2. The one who only got miniscule increase from 50s to 100s then cry about it because its "unplayable" for them. All i can say is, get used to it or go ahead quit, no one will miss you.

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.

she is not someone random... she's another fellow player.
I came from the horrible 1.0 era too and I agree with what she said.

Changes is hard to accept. especially the one that people got used to for years.
but SE had to make changes people just need to accept them and move on.

I moved from a NA server to a NJ server while living in NJ... the ping change was dramatic initially (200~230 on JP server) but you learn to live with it just fine. the only thing that bothers me is how i am slower than other players when interacting with switches in dungeons.

i still ping 120 on the NEW NA server... so I assume I was prob in the 30~40s on the old NA server..

[Aquaslash]

Hmm. Here I was thinking I jumped the gun in moving to Chaos so soon cause of raid scheduling, but it looks like I was right on the ball. Haven't been on in a while but it'll be hilarious if I get better ping on Chaos than on Aether

So I'm finally home and I ran some tests. The difference between Chaos and Aether for me is on average TEN (10) milliseconds in favor of Aether, albeit some of Aether's highs are greater than Chaos's lows. I'm more or less smack dab in the middle of both of them, hovering around 102ms. Mind you, this is double what I had before.

In short, my connection to the NA servers is just as good as my connection to the EU ones. Not significantly better, and sometimes a little worse.

Nice job fixing it SE >_>

EDIT: Oh, btw, I can still double weave just fine and I'm a DRG main, so git gud OP

[Ayerinn]

Please remember that FFXIV is officially sold in Brazil and maybe in other countries in South America and the decent latency we used to have is gone. After the change I have to deal with a 300ms latency and my FC colleagues are reporting 270-350ms. We don't have anywhere else to go other than quit the game.

The best case scenario is that SE creates east cost servers, since the company that is hosting their data has data centers on both west and east regions. They solved the problem for a group of players which I'm happy for, but at the cost of another group.

Are these terrible ping times you (and others from SA) are seeing while using a VPN? Many people on the US West coast were forced to use VPN's prior to this move and it looks like that may be in order now for some of the East coast depending on how their connection is being routed. If you use a PS4 it is a bit more of a hassle to set up the VPN but it is possible to do so. I have seen tracert's posted from SA that are going through Amsterdam...that would be the cause of the huge ping spike, eesh.