r/ffxivdiscussion: What can Square Enix do to help fix the terrible netcode of FFXIV?

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Any troll saying that S-E wouldn’t buy servers cause it would cost too much and lol they wont pay above market value. End of the day so many things use semi conductors. There was mass shortage and then of course it’s supply and demand but a games publisher isn’t going to compete with say a car manufacturer who need them for their on board computers for their production cars cause most use the same parts. You can only offer so much money and be outbid by others. Thankfully that whole side of things has stabilised and we’re seeing them upgrade and replace their hardware.

I also would imagine any change to tick rate or cooldowns or anything that side of things would be an expansion release not a patch. So if I want to inhale the copium for a minute let’s see what fanfest brings. If nothing is mentioned then by all means people can continue to voice their concern and frustration with their approach to net coding. Remember the japs can make a super fancy music playing toilet but a functioning website? No…

We can't blame Covid for an issue that's been prevalent for a decade.

They've likely had powerful enough servers to handle player movement prediction and timestamped actions to tell the server "No he didn't step in that, check my receipt".. It's just effort they haven't bothered with for 10 years, and an army of writers is cheaper than an army of engineers.

But you're right that, maybe.. Considering they're putting money into other upgrades, just maybe they'll do something about that damned AoE that clipped me 4 seconds ago. lol


Edit: I want to reiterate - There ARE ways to improve our experience while still having low tick servers. There are several ways to go about it, and they can combine multiple methods to make it even better. Increasing tick rate isn't the only option. Online Games are all about smoke and mirrors, as long as it doesn't frustrate the player. What they're doing right now is no smoke, no mirror, all frustration.