Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[Gontrant_Sorel]

I must say that when I hear about FFXIV my main concern was lag since I'm from Europe (Spain to be precise) but from what I understand the servers aren't in Europe. my connection isn't that good either (it's not that bad but it's far from being what it should be) and on top of that my wife also plays MMO (for some reason I don't understand she prefers WoW and GW2) so I have to share the bandwidth.

to my surprise when I connected for the first time I saw that I got a "good" connection to the server and I had not even a hint of lag problems.

let me clarify something that people tend to confuse. one thing is the lag you have (how long does it take the info to travel between the server and your pc) and another is how good your graphic card performs (the Frames per second)

both problems can cause the game to look poorly on a youtube video.
if you want to know what's the problem that causes a poor game experience the first thing is try the graphic card with the benchmark. then test your internet connection to other places (webs, p2p software, ftp, or even if you can try it with other games) to see if it's your general internet connection or just when you connect to the FFXIV servers.