Move the servers back?

[Zumi]

The servers are way better now then they were at the old location.

[Ramesses]

The servers are way better now then they were at the old location.

Agreed. And personally, I've have not been privy to any issues affecting my game play whenever I travel to Northern California.

[Freyt]

My ping has indeed suffered from it. Rather than reversing the change, I simply want SE to work on making it better in any way they can. I can't believe that there's nothing that they can do to make it better, whether it's inside or outside of their servers.

[SaitoHikari]

I feel that the US infrastructure by default is so bad that I think it'd be justified to get new servers on the east coast as well. Aether at this point might as well be the west coast data center, and Primal the east coast. So not only does each side of the US get designated data centers, the current center would get all of its resources allocated to Aether, and Primal gets more resources on the principle of not having to share with Aether.

Or at least that's how I think this would work.

[NessaWyvern]

What you might not realise, is that the west coast data centres make ping quite a bit lower for oceanic players (My ping is lower to the NA servers than the JP ones) I have a more stable connection than with the old servers, where they are now.

[Maeka]

Southeastern PA on the East Coast here, and... well I've given up on trying to play at 9PM+ EST because the lag is unbearable in doing anything that requires timely inputs whatsoever, like, any dungeon content. Or even solo content. Or any kind of battle, really.

I've kinda resigned myself to the fact I have to do all of my FFXIV stuff by early evening at the latest.

I get 34ms to Google and I get 280Mbps+ down, 12 up, so... this should not be happening. I don't think it's any kind of backbone, or level3 or what-not. It's the servers themselves.

Heck, I get 79ms to my two WoW servers during the same time period I'm seeing this crazy lag in XIV.

[MomomiMomi]

Southeastern PA on the East Coast here, and... well I've given up on trying to play at 9PM+ EST because the lag is unbearable in doing anything that requires timely inputs whatsoever, like, any dungeon content. Or even solo content. Or any kind of battle, really.

I've kinda resigned myself to the fact I have to do all of my FFXIV stuff by early evening at the latest.

I get 34ms to Google and I get 280Mbps+ down, 12 up, so... this should not be happening. I don't think it's any kind of backbone, or level3 or what-not. It's the servers themselves.

Heck, I get 79ms to my two WoW servers during the same time period I'm seeing this crazy lag in XIV.

Friend of mine plays from PA and has reported no such problems, and we usually are playing that late and later.

No issues here, either, but I expected that because I'm in CA.

[Maeka]

Friend of mine plays from PA and has reported no such problems, and we usually are playing that late and later.

No issues here, either, but I expected that because I'm in CA.

Maybe they just have a better tolerance, but when I push a button and see the results 1-1.5 seconds later, I consider that "unplayable" because really, that's just aggravating and it makes me not want to play at all.

[Kurando]

The thing to consider is that the NA servers are not purely just for NA players, there are other places in the world that actually connect to these centres and that's what SE (and Devs for many other MMOs) have to plan around. Players from parts of Central/Southern America, Oceania and even further afield may all connect to this one so the location has to suit more than just a single region, and California was the best suited location.

I know some players are adamant that it's an SE issue, but personally I don't think it is and is all down to the respective ISPs. Having played from EU on the Aether NA centre (on an alt before and after the move to Cali), I barely had that many issues at all regarding routing. Sure the occasional lag happened which was an ISP issue, but there was never anything that prevented me from playing the game at any time of day. So from what I found that being several thousand more miles away I still had less problems than those in the actual NA region, so who knows perhaps just like Saito just mentioned previously, US infrastructure could be to blame more than anything.

[Darrcyphfeid]

I know some players are adamant that it's an SE issue

I'm taking this out of context, but it's an SE issue insofar that SE doesn't want to invest in multiple server locations.

"Moving back" isn't so much an issue as either putting the servers in a more central location (not ideal) or having them in multiple locations. Keeping the one in CA, for example, as well as getting one back in Montreal and doing the centralized location for good measure.

I don't want to hear that their infrastructure is horrible or that it'd be too hard to accomplish that. We all pay a monthly fee, ostensibly in part to maintain and/or facilitate the expansion of all this backend stuff, and if the game is larger than ever - their claim - then they need to actually loosen the purse strings a bit to ensure it stays that way.

Let's even be a little more crazy and ask that they throw our friends in South America and Australia a bone and find some local servers there, too. I'm sure it'll pay dividends when they launch their next MMO and these problems don't have to crop up again.