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

[KarstenS]

Sometimes it really is just business if a group wants to be a certain level of competitiveness.

People, that hide their main character to hide their "competitiveness" in public or do it during a time where we have absolute no content for competitive progress without we can't proove what the change really means, are with a very high probability not competent or competitive.

[Seig345]

I live smack in the middle of the U.S. so I'm not sure that the physical distance has made a huge change relative to my location. It seems like there might be a small improvement, but I would pin that more on the routing than anything else. I can't really offer any before/after ping numbers in my case, because I've never been one to have ping or FPS counters on my games, online or otherwise.

If there are legit issues, it seems to me like they're getting mixed in with people who are simply now further away from the servers and whining about it. In the end, some people just want to slap the "you're just further away, deal with it" label on everyone so they have a reason to post "deal with it" instead of actually parsing the whiners/Ping Perfectionists from the legit complaints. That's just the nature of our community unfortunately.

[Kazrah]

What's funnier is that here in Florida, I have a higher ping on an East Coast WoW server than I do on any FFXIV EU server.

Oh Comcast.....

[Nishide]

From 150 to 210, south Brazil.

[Voltres]

Im from Rio, using Net 30mbps and Im getting 195-200ms top. Which one are you using?

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Vivo Fibra 200mbps in SP. I can go down to 200ms using VPN, but I should not have to pay extra to still get a shitty ping. You can't double weave with 200ms without losing precious global cooldown time.

[Maero]

Oh yes they will shut it down and all those who do not have issue will not play to cater to YOUR needs. How about no
I do not at all agree with the move to Cali (i think it is a bad location server wise) but must learn to live with it until they decide to add a eastern or central server

[Sil3ntxR3qui3m]

If it makes you feel any better, OP, my game has always been laggy. I used to live in Missouri until February of this year, now I live in Virginia. Same problems anyway. My laptop sucks as far as graphics and ISP has never been that great either. I dream of the day I can one day see my character in 60 FPS but that's still just a dream. I'm terrified that with the minimum spec requirements being increased that I won't be able to play. I can't even load the benchmark because it says I don't meet the requirements.

Checked ping just to be sure, says it's 82.

[Emerald_Swords]

No big changes for me, I've noticed a slight increase in lag when I had pingzapper turned on..weird. But other than that, if that's turned off there's no noticeable delay on my end.

[Saralene]

Buffalo, NY. Went from ~50ms ping to an unsteady ping that can be anywhere from ~180ms to ~380ms depending on how it feels.

[silverlunarfox]

I find it funny those that don't have issues simply say, "It's your ISP, contact them" (Like they really care) "Move" (Yeah thats realistic) "I don't have an issue you're making it up" (That seems legit)

I have a whole two ISP's to choose from in one whole corner of a state. My ping went from about 20 to 60 since for whatever reason it likes me hopping around chicago before heading out to california. And some of those hops are REALLY bad.

I feel for the people that saw an even higher increase and there's not a damn thing they can do about it, so they give feedback and get jumped on right away. That's not the right way to go about it. Let them post their legitimate grievances and move on. Some people can't help how bad the situation has become for them.

Good luck out there folks. Maybe there's a fix on the way, maybe...