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[RylaiShendelzare]

I'm on the east coast. I have a wonderful connection at the moment. I don't personally expect to see much if any difference in performance tomorrow. I do worry a bit however about friends I have in the EU. This might be a real problem for some of them and I'd hate to see that happen to them. Worrying about it now isn't going to change the reality in the morning. It's only a few hours away.

On a related note I was playing on the Chocobo server yesterday since it was open (and I was able to create an account there) and there was absolutely no difference that I could see in my game performance. Aren't those servers located in Japan and if so I'm pretty far away from them and it didn't affect me in the least.

Im already seeing people talking about straight up quitting the game rather than transfer if it turns out to be true.

[Daralii]

Connecting from rural Maine to California's gonna be fun. I'm happy for everyone in Australia and NZ, but going from 45 ping to ~145 ping will be awful.

[Jackel]

It seems like you're completely missing the point - anywhere in the middle of the US, or at least not the coast, is a better than this option. Even splitting to both coasts makes more sense than this. Ultimately we'll see how much this affects performance. Undoubtedly however, this makes people less happy, with at best the people who are affected take an apathetic view, which isn't representative of a majority.

Why are so many people assuming that having a data center in the middle most part of a piece of land the most "optimal"?

Unless SE has released a listing of where the majority of inbound connections are coming from there is no way to know where in North America the vast majority of the traffic is originating from.

As I posted earlier, Boston to Sacramento is 2600 miles. Coast to Coast. It's still possible to get under 100 ms ping times.

[ZephyrusVenti]

I'm located in boston and pinging the IPs in OP I'm getting average 152ms with a 200mbps connection, be it SE, my ISP, other ISPs i'm hopping from, I am most definitely seeing a 100+ ms ping increase. I'm on the fence of waiting to see how it really plays out before doom and gloom.

[Kosmos992k]

East Coaster here that is in Ottawa.

Getting a ping of around 107ms so it's nothing crazy for East Coasters to worry about; as some have mentioned, it's mostly based on your IP that'll determine what kind of ping you'll get.

Funny enough, I enjoy seeing my tracert run from Ottawa, Montreal, New York, St-Louis and then Sacremento. That's quite an interesting zigzag...

People who get bent out of shape about the straight line distance should look at the straight line distance of those hops. When people complain about the distance to the server they utterly ignore the fact that the actual routing of their packets could be covering anything from 1.5 to 10 times the geographic distance to the host server. Because of that, the number of hops and where the hops are matters far more than the physical distance from their home to the server.

Last thing I'll say since this is getting very fraught...I previously ran a tracert to the old data center on my residential internet and got something like 260ms round trip times. Then I VPN'd into to my corporate network, and via their business class connection using the same damned ISP (business vs consumer!!) I had RTT under 60ms. 200ms difference with the exact same geographic distance. So, geography is not the issue, routing and hops are.

[Azell]

Rip South american players, went from 100 to 215ms.........

[Dractus]

I honestly dont understand why so many people are crying about it moving to the west coast. I am a east coast gamer and I play on westcoast servers in every mmo because I like the times better for raiding, and there is almost no difference in lag. Lets also remember they are not just moving the old servers, they are UPGRADING them, adding new hardware, better internet connection, and better of more stuff! This will be a good thing!!! not only will this help the Aus and Hawaii players but anyone living in US/Cdn will not feel much if any difference.

IF YOU IN CDN OR US YOU WILL BE FINE. and if you live in the EU and are on Na servers you should of been EU to start they said NA for a reason.

Eu players if you Xfer chars remember to make 8 chars and Split gold among them and make a FC and deposit extra Gil so you dont lose any (moving all 8 Chars on your Acct does not cost any mroe then moving 1 char, its 1 price for everything)

[DRHaymaker]

Why are so many people assuming that having a data center in the middle most part of a piece of land the most "optimal"?

Because it is "optimal" for the widest amount of people. If the datacenter was on the east coast, it would be just as unfavorable to everyone from the center-west.

As I posted earlier, Boston to Sacramento is 2600 miles. Coast to Coast. It's still possible to get under 100 ms ping times.

Not all IPs are the same. Not everyone has the same access or type of connection to the internet. That chart is a moot point because some people are justifiably worried because when they choose a game server that's on the other side of the coast in ANY game, they can notice a change in speed. Again, "We'll see", but let's stop pretending there's baseless concerns.

[Xerxus___]

I have a question for the expert people out there, me and my wife are from switzerland on server odin. Should we stay there or should we leave as i read eu players want to move to NA because of the relocation.

[Matrinka]

Eh, I'm going to try and not be alarmist and wait for the servers to go back up and see what I'm actually dealing with in terms of game play.

Reading all the doom and gloom freaked me out at first, but eh, nothing I can do about it now. Not worth dwelling on unless I log back in and it just feels terrible. From now on, my policy will be "wait and see."