Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
WoW hasn't used a data center in Dallas in years. Everything has been in Chicago or Los Angeles since they did the realm connections in 2013/2014 and they had stopped using the Dallas data center a couple of years before that.
Chosen =/= currently in use. If Dallas was good enough for WoW before, I should think it's good enough for XIV now. And if not, hey, there's Chicago. Neither one is on a coast.

If the game servers were the issue then everyone would be reporting the same problems. Outside of a few specific occasions, we're not. There's something else causing the issues the East Coast players are reporting.
Level-3 was messing with you before, and now NTT is messing with... everyone, really. But especially Comcast subscribers on the eastern half of the continent from the sounds of it. Got a guy in my friend circle from southern CA whose ping is lower now, but can't play any more reliably than I can because Square wanted to save a few pennies or something. Another guy in Vegas was screwed when the servers were in Montreal and, last I heard, wasn't fairing much better with NTT in Cali. Yet another guy, in Arizona, has had some rough patches the last few nights our group has gotten together; unsure what his situation was like prior to move.

Either way alternating between one side of the country or the other being unable to reliably play your online-only, subscription-based game is pretty damn sad. If that's truly the best Square can manage, they should reconsider this whole online gaming thing.