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[Alyzore]

I'm playing on balmung from EU....i was hoping the jump would be for like 50-60ping...so i would be under 200 (180ish)...but increased to 210~... I started this game to play with my bf..found some nice friends and fc..never played a game with a ping above 180 since for my personal enjoyment is a bit too much. I transfered once to get on balmung...i guess i might have to transfer again to move from it. :/

[Kyouki]

We're talking about FFXIV... Other games can be different.

Ah come on... I get it! You are frustrated and so am i! I am just trying to tell you that it is still POSSIBLE to play and have fun with friends if you are playing with a ping around 100ms. Nothing else.

@ZeroSum
Yes i know i could switch to the EU datacenter. I simply don't wanna do that, even if they now offer to take more money with you. I love the NA ppl i played with during the last 2 years. And it really bothers me if i am unable to understand the language in the chat/being unable to talk to my group via VoIP.

[Hey123]

I'm playing on balmung from EU....i was hoping the jump would be for like 50-60ping...so i would be under 200 (180ish)...but increased to 210~... I started this game to play with my bf..found some nice friends and fc..never played a game with a ping above 180 since for my personal enjoyment is a bit too much. I transfered once to get on balmung...i guess i might have to transfer again to move from it. :/

At least people from eu have somewhere to transfer i will just have to quit the game

[Mature]

Again, EU people DID NOT get free transfers off of NA. NA people did get them off of EU. We stayed here due to being here for years already, having a community and friends, houses and everything. And the latency was still manageable. Now? It's not. Expecting people to just leave everything behind and try to start afresh is silly when there was no reason to do so until now when we are literally forced to move.

Someone with a brain and sense. Thank you seems some people don't understand what the issue here really is.

[Kyouki]

How am i supposed to know? There is nothing we can do besides "trying to live with it" or quit.

[Raikki]

It's central as far as Internet infrastructure goes. Kansas City, MO, is more of a "true" centerpoint, but it's rarer to see major hosting done there. Chicago and Dallas are the usual places you're going to see "Central" servers located.

Expanding upon this, here are some pings to that IP (24.105.62.129, Blizzard US Central in Chicago) from backbone servers in various locations:

Portland, OR: 49ms (Northwest US)
San Diego, CA: 54ms (Southwest US)
Boston, MA: 24ms (Northeast US)
Miami, FL: 33ms (Southeast US)
Frankfurt, Germany: 109ms

Residential pings will be a bit higher obviously and may not have as good routes as these. Hopefully it's obvious that not only would a huge percentage of North Americans be getting stellar latency, but the impact on European players may have been reduced significantly enough to allow them to stay on their preferred server.

[Semmi]

This game feels near unplayable at a high level for me now. Having been accustomed to reasonable latency playing the game for the past 4 years (40ms), the server move has just about tripled my latency and I can no longer dual weave without clipping my GCDs, as well as slidecasting feeling a lot less consistent. My Raiton as a Ninja now clips significantly into my GCD, and overall the game just doesn't feel responsive anymore.

The game is of course playable and all content can be cleared with their target latency in mind (200ms IIRC), but my quality of service playing this game got significantly worse to the point where it's just frustrating being unable to play at the level I was able to play at before. I am now having less fun since there's really just no reason to push myself in this game as much as I have in the past.

[Arrius]

180'ish on average, this might get tough on clutch dodging attacks now on my paladin.

[VeliusVire]

Nobody is expecting anyone to do anything, that's like saying 'SEA players are EXPECTED to go to JP DC due to Ping'. I've said it multiple times already across the forums/reddit, if your Ping is not >250ms, then you don't have to go anywhere, because that's the Ping I personally raided and cleared Coil/Savage on. If your Ping is >250, then you're just going to have to either re-learn the game due to timing differences or, alas, transfer. Sorry to say, and I sympathise with the EU players, but venting/complaining is not going to change anything. The best thing you can do is either try and make the situation work the best you can, or do what's optimal for you, not much else that I can think of.

[cakesphere]

Expanding upon this, here are some pings to that IP (24.105.62.129, Blizzard US Central in Chicago) from backbone servers in various locations:

Portland, OR: 49ms (Northwest US)
San Diego, CA: 54ms (Southwest US)
Boston, MA: 24ms (Northeast US)
Miami, FL: 33ms (Southeast US)
Frankfurt, Germany: 109ms

Residential pings will be a bit higher obviously and may not have as good routes as these. Hopefully it's obvious that not only would a huge percentage of North Americans be getting stellar latency, but the impact on European players may have been reduced significantly enough to allow them to stay on their preferred server.

People saying "100ms is good" just show their ignorance of other online games, really. There's a reason so many other games place their NA servers centrally or run several server locations across the continent.