I felt this last night too. I barely log in nowadays, just to do expert/trial/normalraid roulettes. But I logged in last night, and once again people were just running in place and then "catching up" all at once. I was healing, so I didn't have a crazy rotation or anything, and I didn't want to make my group wait for another healer, so I put up with it. But once we got out, I immediately logged out and watched a movie instead. Then I got into bed at a reasonable hour, went to sleep, and woke up feeling refreshed and happy.

It is very dangerous for Square, from a monetary standpoint, to have a game with so many content lulls and then have connectivity issues on top of it. Because when people who already had nothing to do anyway, but were still online idling or whatever, get booted... they tend to think "oh. well, what was I doing anyway?" and they stay offline lol. That's been my case at least. I log in, wonder why I bothered, and then I watch my ping spike to like 200 so I just log off.