
Originally Posted by
Danicchi
I started playing FFXIV around a month or so ago thanks to Netflix's Dad of Light series, and for the first couple weeks it was perfect.
So I thought I'm okay with spending on it, bought the expansion and some moogleshop items, and right after I start getting freezes (not graphical freezes), the game just stops and nothing responds, then disconnect.
I noticed that whenever the game freezes if I don't send too many commands to the client I might be able to avoid the disconnect and it just fast-forward to catch up on whatever happened since the freeze started, but sometimes it's not apparent the game froze - lost connection, for a better word.
If I'm during a cutscene clicking the textboxes for example it's a 100% disconnect. When I'm in battle I now I can just stand still without pressing anything to avoid the disconnect, although most of the times I'm sure to come back dead.
The freezes last between 5~10 seconds, happens every 20~30 min and persists through the day. I haven't noticed any periods where it's more frequent, but it appears during the weekends it's worse.
I'm afraid of going into a dungeon, because any freezes during it's pretty much certain death and a bother to my party. I also just lost a queue as DpS on 25 min elapsed because I got disconnected since I was reading text and didn't noticed the freeze.
It's frankly annoying, borderline unplayable - I can only quest and not attempt any challenging stuff unless I wait for the next freeze and do whatever I can for the next 20 min.
I'm on Windows 10, Brazil, ISP is Live TIM, and the connection is completely fine for everything BUT FFXIV.
I tested with various other games for long periods: Guild Wars 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Battlefield 1, Battlefield 4, Splatoon 2.
I also tested using a VPN and the issue persisted. It got worse in fact, since the freezes were more frequent (or because it was during the weekend).
And I reseted my router and connection countless times.
My character is on Primal Data Center, Ultros World.
This is draining my will to play, I'm still very early in the game but I'm at the point where most of my quests are sending me to dungeons/trials, stuff I'm afraid to attempt with these disconnects. And right after I decided to spend on the game...
Any chance this is a known/common issue and that it'll be fixed sometime?