How does Net Nutrality affect SE/XIV?

[Nihility]

I think in the US the ISP's will mostly go after tech companies rather than end users
Kind of a mobster shake down style "want your content to come across smoothly? give us a cut"

[Laerune]

I think in the US the ISP's will mostly go after tech companies rather than end users
Kind of a mobster shake down style "want your content to come across smoothly? give us a cut"

The companies will not just take it, they will forward their cost to the consumers. If the ISP's demands more money from Square Enix or companies like Netflix, then those companies will increase their subscription fee, heck we might see more cuts to ingame items and more exclusive mog station items.

In the end the consumers in the USA will pay alot more then they are right now. I can only hope that the court will stop this and that this will not have a domino effect on other countries.

[Rinuko]

Wouldn't/Could the congress go against the vote results?

[Kaethra]

Unless ISPs are going to throttle your net to dialup speeds, you won't see a difference in FFXIV gameplay. The game literally uses a mere few kb/s to run. That's for gameplay. Patches may need to be smaller and less frequent. As bandwidth limits and speeds will make content patches unviable, requiring us to buy expansions via hardcopy again like we did for Early WoW and EQ.

[Claviusnex]

Unless ISPs are going to throttle your net to dialup speeds, you won't see a difference in FFXIV gameplay. The game literally uses a mere few kb/s to run. That's for gameplay. Patches may need to be smaller and less frequent. As bandwidth limits and speeds will make content patches unviable, requiring us to buy expansions via hardcopy again like we did for Early WoW and EQ.

The throttling we are talking about is not on your individual connection it is on the backbone side where the content provider connects.

[uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu]

The arguments made sense tbh. In rl traffic there's assigned roads for specific types of vehicles. Simply put, .coms are getting too big, they need to reconfigure or rebased their connections to several destinations especially since they're the most crawled from other sites too. It's not really a problem for the game since we already have split datacenters. Customers should be left alone inside a protection law, it's up to them where they want their content from, but the content provider should either provide that alternatives or deny them access.

[Galgarion]

The arguments made sense tbh. In rl traffic there's assigned roads for specific types of vehicles. Simply put, .coms are getting too big, they need to reconfigure or rebased their connections to several destinations especially since they're the most crawled from other sites too. It's not really a problem for the game since we already have split datacenters. Customers should be left alone inside a protection law, it's up to them where they want their content from, but the content provider should either provide that alternatives or deny them access.

No, the argument doesn't make sense. The analogy of the internet being like terrestrial traffic is complete nonsense thanks to the speeds provided by fiberoptic cable. The true fact of the matter is that data is cheap to generate, and all the associated pricing is completely arbitrary.

https://broadbandnow.com/report/much...lly-cost-isps/

We're already paying far more than our fair share in the U.S., compared to Europe and Asia. With the subsidies that we citizens have already paid into the telecommunications industry, we are absolutely owed fast and affordable internet service as our due right. These companies are liars and thieves, flat out. Anything they claim to the contrary is a demonstrable falsehood, and scheming to have net neutrality repealed is among the greatest acts of corporate greed that have ever occurred, right up there with the housing collapse of '09.

[uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu]

No, the argument doesn't make sense. The analogy of the internet being like terrestrial traffic is complete nonsense thanks to the speeds provided by fiberoptic cable. The true fact of the matter is that data is cheap to generate

You're confusing speed with data. If a sports car is really cheap and everyone has one, what does your road look like? The speed or any technology doesn't matter without the limits put on the road. The -true- fact is people want their sports car to anywhere instant, it's not even related to the -real- problem is the single destination everyone took.

[LastFireAce]

I just wanted to say, I'm no complaining tho !
Was just asking what could happen to XIV/SE since the only game I play for the past 2 years :')
But I know more of less what could happen in general.

[LaurieB]

I already spend 129.00 a month plus 14.99 equipment fee for internet that is capped at 50GB per month, max 25mps download, most times 10-17 in reality. These companies took millions and did not expand high speed internet https://arstechnica.com/information-...nment-funding/ http://thehill.com/policy/technology...ternet-service, they have done nothing. You trust them to be de regulated? Most people don't even know that 30 million Americans, like me, don't have access now and this will make it even longer. But they will keep the money, your money.