From the technical forums (emphasis mine):
IMHO SE / CBU3 should be providing at minimum weekly updates on what they're doing to help resolve this issue (daily would be ideal). At some point, they share responsibility for this.For what it's worth, here is what AT&T has given me back after some fairly insistent "please escalate this appropriately" requests on my part:
I dunno what to do next about this. We aren't NTT's customer. AT&T is saying that it's not their problem. NTT says it's both their problems (generally). Kinda leaves us stuck not being able to do a whole lot, and thus the "please contact your ISP" request from the Lodestone doesn't feel like it's going to get us much of anywhere.I sincerely apologize for the inconveniences caused based on info found AT&T's services to get you to the ISPs of those you want to contact. Square Enix subscribes to NTT's services to allow you to connect to their servers.
Every traceroute I've seen shows that the latency issues begin inside NTT after AT&T hands off the traffic. NTT is not processing traffic properly from AT&T (and, based on the Square Enix posts, some other ISPs as well). So, the correct takeaway is the Square Enix should find a different ISP than NTT, not that any player should switch. A possible workaround would be the VPN solutions work is because it routes the traffic around the bottleneck in NTT's network near the AT&T consumer peering where a lot of consumers come in to a less congested connection.
Wish I could play the game with my kids right now without having to spend a bunch more money and time on VPN re-rerouting. (There's three of us playing, two on PS5.) And I'm not super-interested in the circus that is switching ISPs right now.
Last edited by Deceptus; 06-01-2023 at 07:28 AM.
Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
Other games expect basic competence, FFXIV is pleasantly surprised by it. Other games have toxic elitism. FFXIV has toxic casualism.[/LIST]
Someone with ComCast(I think it was) said they had the same issue and that it was never fixed. They said that they've been using a VPN to deal with it, and I've seen so many other people asking about VPNs that it makes me fear people are just going to deal with it... which I refuse to do.
I hate having to say this because I feel like someone is going to call me a Karen for saying it, but this isn't our problem, and as consumers we shouldn't have to be paying more for other services to solve that problem. Since so many people are doing so I really fear that I might have to quit because SE isn't going to do anything and I don't want to get a VPN to play.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...lity_to_north/
This has info from ntt.
yea, I noticed
I'm on ATT, in the midwest, on 300/300 fiber, and I'm simply not having this issue, at all. However, I do not play on weekdays before about 3 PM pacific time, most days. Weekends, I don't have any of this.
So, while the NTT/ATT peering site could be part of the problem, there's more to it somewhere. I cannot duplicate these issues at all.
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Had super bad latency in p12 earlier today. My opening deployment tactics took two seconds to fire off.
I'll give healer a try up until level 100. If I do not like it, I'm off the role, entirely.Was this what Yoshi P wanted for people like me? Did he assume we were too foolish to take any semblance of complexity? How could such an allegedly open developer act so dismissive towards his own players? The flavor of the jobs I loved so much throughout the franchise were mere husks of themselves. What was once a magical world peeled away to reveal a sterile room of four walls. No imagination, no challenge, only accessibility for the sake of it. I didn't feel welcomed, I felt betrayed.
It is very common for companies to blame their customers and tell them to contact their ISP if they have an issue.
But Square Enix is usually good about it and proactively contacts the ISP themselves to resolve the issue or setup countermeasures against a DDoS. So it's rare that they respond like this.
Since the reddit post seems to explain that it's a political problem, it does explain why Square Enix can't do anything about. If it were something they could physically change they probably would have, but when it's political all you can do is hate politics and complain to the overseers of paperwork.
In other news, there is no technical debt from 1.0.
"We don't have ... a technological issue that was carried over from 1.0, because ARR was meant to kind of discard what we had from 1.0 and rebuild it from the engine."
https://youtu.be/ge32wNPaJKk?t=560
Also midwest, 1gig fiber ATT. Don't really notice it until the afternoons but it is prevalent. Dungeons/PvP/Raids, even in cities.I'm on ATT, in the midwest, on 300/300 fiber, and I'm simply not having this issue, at all. However, I do not play on weekdays before about 3 PM pacific time, most days. Weekends, I don't have any of this.
So, while the NTT/ATT peering site could be part of the problem, there's more to it somewhere. I cannot duplicate these issues at all.
Yoshi straight up said "It's not on our end, call AT&T".
AT&T said, "It's not on our end, it's NTT. They're screwing up multiple games" (What their data shows)
NTT has said "Crickets". Admit NOTHING!
But they can do something about it. Simply say "If you don't figure out a way to resolve this we will be forced to find another provider to handle our traffic and you will lose out on whatever figure we are paying you and we'll not recommend you to anyone else in the industry"
Last edited by Deceptus; 06-01-2023 at 10:10 PM.
Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
Other games expect basic competence, FFXIV is pleasantly surprised by it. Other games have toxic elitism. FFXIV has toxic casualism.[/LIST]
Still seeing it in the East… we’re on Comcast so no one we can complain to! lol Had almost a full day of no lag after the “hot fix” thing and thought maybe something got fixed, but the next time I logged in, it was back.
Specifically just running through an empty residential area is laggy. I can do my normal raids and roulettes passably, but the random lag spikes have led to a great many deaths that should not have happened!
well depends on the terms of their contract with them are. they might not be able to do that. you don't know what might or might not be in it. there could be massive penalties for breaking it on their end.But they can do something about it. Simply say "If you don't figure out a way to resolve this we will be forced to find another provider to handle our traffic and you will lose out on whatever figure we are paying you and we'll not recommend you to anyone else in the industry"
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