Is SE Going to Fix Server Lag?

[Vektrat]

Hello,

I made a post about this a few days (weeks?) ago, it was classified as an ACCEPTED BUG. I find it serious enough to get a dedicated reply from a SE representative, yet no information was given so far.

Here's the thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

[Nepumuk]

The problem was accepted as bug a while ago: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

[Kosmos992k]

Server lag - it's a fact.

I was gathering in the South Shroud on Behemoth. There are unfortunately several FATE that spawn regularly there and large groups of FATE parties run from FATE to FATE grinding out levels which makes this zone already laggy thanks to the elevated number of users. any FATE with a klarge number of players causes the server problems because it requires a lot of calculations to be handled for a specific group activity in one place rather than spread all over the zone. To make matters worse, Odin spawned in the South Shroud and there was a sudden influx of players. It literally got to the point where it was taking anything from 30-60 seconds to attempt a single harvest action, and there was no animation at all. In fact it caused me to lose fail the quest due to time, which is crazy considering it's normally possible to finish in about a quarter of the available time.

Standing in Quarrymill I could watch as scores of players had the 'disconnect' icon light up beside their name before they'd slide through the village or disappear. The server lag was utterly ridiculous.

Personally I blame FATE and the FATE grind parties. I won't grind FATE, power leveling in that way robs me of the playing time I would otherwise enjoy, and feels a bit like cheating since I could potentially level to 50 without even looking at the majority of the story or class quests. Not to mention that players who level that way are not learning to play, all they are doing is learning to manipulate the FATE system.

@Vekrat,

I argued against the problem you were talking about in your topic before, because I think the issues related to server lag - which are extremely bad in certain zones, are not the same as the AoE synchronization issues that we saw during the phase 3 tests. The server lag we are seeing now in the live environment certainly has the same affect as the original issue with AoE indicators, but I am not sure it's a bug as much as it is the game design for FATE and zone population causing servers problems because the game writes checks that the hardware can't cash.

[Raist]

What some of you guys are describing is a server capacity problem, and not lag (per se).

What has been posted in some other threads is showing up as connectivity issues---lagging in route, dropped packets, etc. And they are specific to certain regions and the routes being taken from those regions. Again, I encourage you guys to check out the other threads to make sure you aren't falling into that category as well. It may be one, the other, or both contributing to your problems.

Again... there are many of us out there not experiencing these issues. I just followed a boat load of players chasing fates on my ACN... no lag whatsoever for me, but I'm on the East Coast and don't have any connectivity issues, and apparently don't have a congestion problem on Midgard either.

[Sephir]

really when you're going to buy a REAL EU server???? this is not possible really. Everytime a mob is casting an AOE 50% of the times i can't avoid it because of the latency. Everytime i cast something even if i move the cast is not interrupted right away but only after 1 seconds. I can die from a mob skill like 2 km away from the mobs and this is not possible.

I'm from Italy and the latency is unbearable. I cant' play like this...i'm on the RAGANAROK server (it's supposed to be a good one for EU user)

[pctech86]

No server lag here, on goblin server.

Yes there is, on every server. It's like the lag is hardcoded into the game. Ever try to melee a mob running by you towards somebody else? Flash? Good luck with that...

[Anthreas]

Hello,

I made a post about this a few days (weeks?) ago, it was classified as an ACCEPTED BUG. I find it serious enough to get a dedicated reply from a SE representative, yet no information was given so far.

Here's the thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

This thread above (which for some reason i cannot post in) is exactly what I'm experiencing. For instance, when I press mount i can run for about .5-1 sec before i actually mount up. I'm on the NA Excalibur Server, have a 25 mbs cable internet connection (haven't had any problems of the sort in any other video game I've ever played). My brother was like yeah I've just gotten used to it, you just have to be on point and react quickly (which I guess is fine if that is the way it was intended, but it's not). Honestly I originally thought of it as part of the game and it was on my end, and I would would just have to deal with it, but I'm glad to find out that I am not the only one. Hopefully they work on this and fix it soon. Great game, but I hope they fix this soon, otherwise I fear it might be game-breaking for me.

On another note, anybody who keeps saying that it is not from SE's side, you're wrong. You might have a fantastic connection to their server, that's great I'm sure there are select regions or ISPs or whatever that happen to mesh well with whatever they are doing with their servers. You are experiencing the game the way it's supposed to be played and I'm happy for you, but pretty much everyone that I play with; my Free Company, my brother (we live in different states), my neighbor (different server, different type of internet (DSL vs cable)), all have the same issues. I'm sorry but there is just no possible way that every single one of our internet connections / ISP's / type of internet / region / etc... are the issue here, the only logical thought is that it is SE's over-populated, under-prepared servers.

I apologize in advance for the rant, but seeing people constantly saying that it is somehow the player's internet and not SE is frustrating, because they seem to be ignoring that fact that a lot of people are experiencing this, no matter where they are, what server they are on, or what internet they are using.

[Seiryuukishi]

Yeah I went there. I love this game don't get me wrong. The shear depth of everything I have played through is better than I have experienced in any other MMO. However it took me two weeks, two-stinking-weeks just to get my main to level 30. This is unheard of for me. I play Leviathan(NA) and I have lost count of the times I have lagged in rather important battles or it just kicked me period only to find that when I log in again I'm either dead or still stuck in the same situation I was before, which is to say lag. Now I understand that they didn't anticipate this many people playing given the forebear of this game flopped. But you cannot simply solve the issue by adding more servers to pick up the influx. Not only is that redundant but it is simply a waste of time. The vast majority of the people that are in the specified servers (insert your name and place here) are dedicated to where they are myself included. All things being equal the servers sizes need to be larger. If they made each server safely support say 10k players they should have made it 30k. How can they reasonably expect people to pay for a game they cannot even play half the time they're logged in? I finally got Dragoon job today. Now I have to contend with this all over again with my alt toon to get him to White Mage. I'm not looking forward to another two weeks of 'OFF/ON' play. Not to mention I expect to make either a Warrior or Paladin afterwards. It's just sad they don't seem to care one way or another...

[dark0past]

bad Ragnarok latency

[LockeDemo]

on Midgardsormr, and yes it lags a ton when in dungeons like you described. (hm garuda, titan, ifrit, keep all noticeable as well.)
From reading forums it might be a ISP-SE issue that they are not fixing. This problem never happen to me until they swap to the new servers.