How good is the game engine of FFXIV?

[kikix12]

You’re correct that there are more toll booths. That makes the distance and travel speed even less of a factor, because even more time is spent sitting in routers waiting to actually travel.

That's the thing. That means that you save all that bonus "PING" when going from cable to fiber (well, not when an individual goes fiber...if the whole network was replaced with fiber). So on that alone, over continents, you're going to see fiber far outclass cable on PING, which is basically what I said.

What changes is the scale. Instead of going down from 400 to 50 PING, it's more likely to go down to 130-150 PING realistically. That's still a great deal of decrease that turns an unplayable game into a potentially playable. When starting with 200 PING, you'd end up bottoming below 100 most likely. That goes from "problematic" to "good".