SE Official Forums Wrote:FINAL FANTASY XIV was designed to be played in an environment featuring ping times of 200 – 220 milliseconds or less. Even if players experience an increase in ping times due to the data center relocation, as long as their times remain below 200 ms, then they may rest easy, for there should be no discernable difference in gameplay.
Aside from the creators' words, I'd suggest waiting to actually play on the servers. FFXIV's problem was never ping. It was dropped packets because the datacenter couldn't cope with the number of connections by players. Especially on servers with larger populations.
MMOs aren't twitch-dodge FPS games. Might as well throw in a flight simulator or a multiplayer tetris clone.
I believe Kage was suggesting you check out http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...Relocation for the official wording from Square Enix.
Pre-judging a connect before the servers are even up is just silly.
