HORRIBLE Lag

[trashmyego]

It's not SE it's the ISPs that throttle which should freaking illegal.

Though some ISPs might be throttling. The current issue isn't that, but on SE's end. It wasn't today that it just suddenly clicked for providers around the world and they decided to be like 'hey, let's all start throttling this program that's been in use for weeks today!'

[Ozz_Derovar]

This is SE's problem, they posted something about throttling and isp's, but i call bullshit on that. Everything I play runs fine except this game after the patch 2 days ago, I don't know what they did, but they need to undo it, sick of 3 seconds of delay, as if it wasn't bad enough with not being able to get into the game those first few days. And yes I've called my ISP and they are not throttling this game.

[cenie]

It's not SE it's the ISPs that throttle which should freaking illegal.

So you're saying numerous ISPs, around the world, are throttling just FF14? Are you stupid?

[Orson_Dara]

Maybe it is something that SE did but throttling fits the problem pretty well. The more people logging in and buying digital copies means that you're using a P2P for those people to download the game. It's just a coincidence this issue just started to get way worse after the digital sales reopened? Not only that the issue is going to be exacerbated on the weekend just generally speaking that's when companies tend to throttle more. It is very feasible that this is a throttling issue.

Now I agree you can blame SE for whatever change that made the game be flagged as P2P software. The thing is it doesn't give the ISP a free pass. If you don't think traffic shaping doesn't happen all the time you're sadly mistaken. Just because some flunky in tech support says "oh no we don't throttle," just means they either don't want to look into or they just aren't told. A lot of ISPs are just resellers and have no control over whether they throttle or not. Throttling and traffic shaping should be illegal if it was we'd never have this problem of figuring out who's fault it is.

Also Cenie you're the idiot if you think that numerous ISPs, around the world, aren't throttling many programs possibly including FFXIV. The whole point of throttling is that you'll only it experience in a handful of areas, certain times of day, and a given program when they need to prioritize traffic for other uses and p2p gets shat on. You obviously don't understand how much control your ISP has over your connection.

The funniest part is that my post was in relation to the OP they are Telus in Canada. I'm having the same issue as well as a bunch of other Telus customers. Guess what is notoriously common in Canada? No, you guys are right though, there's no way in hell this thread was started because of a throttling issue.

[xXHalloweenTrixXx]

I've been getting random lag spikes also myself today. It was odd. Like there would be moments people would stop moving for like a second or two then return to normal after they warped elsewhere.

[Gorlan]

FIX THE LAG omg takes 1 minute to mine one freaking node FFS take down the servers for an hour or two i do not care but do something to fix this shit now!

[tearju]

I too am having lag spikes that appear sometimes every 5-10 mins (sometime more or less regular) they last about 3 seconds then everyone catches up, it#s been happening now for a few days, even more so today, it's constant now, and in Aurum Vale today I must have had over 20 spikes thru out the dungeon.

Moogle (and instance server too)