Thread: Constant packet loss since patch 6.3

I've been having issues since patch 6.3. Every hour I get at least one connection hiccup where everyone in the screen stops moving for 1 or 2 seconds, then it comes back in fast forward speed just like the topic creator described, and this problem has caused several wipes during my TOP progression. It's making me quite depressed.
I've swapped ethernet cables and my modem but nothing seems to work. I thought it could be my PC but I don't have internet problems anywhere else, just in this game. I'm considering changing my ISP even though I don't think it will fix the problem.
Please SE, do something about this!

+1ing because I saw it pop in the new posts.

I only just returned to the game in the past few weeks so to be fair my experience isn't really comparable to any long period of having no issues, to be clear, but I DO know that I'm losing connectivity on a regular basis in-game without having network issues (I have a second monitor and there's a time-waster idling game I "play" that will IMMEDIATELY lose connection if my network even momentarily hiccups).

Ever since the function of transferring to another Data Center has been added into the game via Aetheryte, i have been having the packet loss issues everyone else here is talking about.
But for me, it's not every few minutes, or every hour, no, it's every 5 seconds!
Which means that, from my point of view, the game freezes for 2 seconds, fast forwards for 2 seconds, and repeads itself once up to 5 seconds have passed.
Because of this, i can literally not play Ninja anymore, it's impossible!
Healing becomes close to impossible because every 5 seconds i brace for 4 seconds of blindness.
No other game, no other application, no other software has any issues with my internet connection or with packet loss whatsoever, it has exclusively been Final Fantasy XIV for months now, and i am sick of it.
On weekends, there is a big chance that i won't be able to play at all, while on weekdays, the lags only start occurring at rush hour, and proceed into the night.

No matter how i look at this, this is an issue caused by player population and the fact that you developers have allowed everyone to switch servers around as if changing socks, and naturally, alot of people are having issues because of it.
When so many people travel from one data center to the other, and in the next moment just travel to another, or return to their initial one, of course this puts a heavy load on your servers and their capacities, and in turn, this makes the experience for alot of actual players literally unplayable.

I've been on FF XIV since 2014 February in total, and not once did i consider taking a break or quitting, but i am considering leaving this dumbster fire behind now.
The developers have stopped paying attention to the things that matter, i mean just look into these forum pages, not a single moderator is giving a fart about these issues.

There are countless entries about these specific lags occuring since 6.3, but not a single SE person or moderator is actually bothering to leave a statement.

i've stayed quiet for so long, but i'm at the end of my wit.

Been a long time since I posted about my lag here; While the situation has improved, I was previously unable to play the game at all at 6.3, I am still having packet loss in 6.35.

I am currently progging TOP and having these issues continuing to persist for a fight with such tight dps/heal check is a massive pain. I play SGE and my GCDs skills, especially Eukrasia and Phlegma, still get refunded and don’t register correctly very often. Sometimes my slidecast refuses to work, or I can see my party members freeze and then zoom forward to catch up to mechs due to lag. These are some examples of the lag related issues I still see.

Really hope they can address these persisting issues, or at least make a comment on this soon. The silence is very frustrating.

Been a while since I posted here and am sad that there still isn't any changes to this situation for every single player here. I hope SE and the mods start to pull it together and fix that darn issue that is occurring for me since patch 6.3 for many of us players.

Still getting some package losses and lags here, thankfully no DC's for now but I'm still worried about it tbh. Am mostly doing overworld things since I can't really level up my tank classes in Dungeons and Raids, nor can I really play healer because having blind moments like these where you don't even know if you end up being hit by an AOE that you can't see or not is very, very annoying and frustrating.

More issues tonight on BT, having to use Exitlag to get around this problem - a subscription I don't want to have to pay for to play this game.

This thrice-damned error makes me want to uninstall and never return. No amount of troubleshooting fixes this pos error and it's never addressed when a patch unleashes it on everyone.