We interrupt your current server woes to talk about casting

[Riaayo]

To avoid sounding ignorant, I am aware that the physical distance (or even the network distance) is not the primary cause of the lag in FFXIV or even a major cause. But given SE's global servers policy (one I happen to agree with actually), SE will never be able to produce the same experience as a local server is capable of producing in terms of latency. Although on reflection, my original post perhaps came on a little strong. I was only trying to get across that no change is going to stretch that nanosecond of wire.

Can you either link or possibly explain their global servers policy then? Unless you just mean the generalization of the fact their servers are not for specific regions.

As much as I like the fact our servers have all manner of people from all over the world, I don't know if personally that bonus is worth the cost in game performance... it is just not fun to not be able to react to things, and no form of fun PvP is going to exist in this game if that's the case. Laggy, slow, unresponsive PvP is just... bleh. It effectively makes you feel cheated out of your own reaction time and abilities, and forces you to try and adjust yourself to the lag (which some seem to consider part of the game, but I think it's only worth putting up with until 2.0).

Also, touche on the nerdy, it was indeed a very informative lecture (no sarcasm).