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Two Servers or Bust!

Fire Lord Cinder·8/27/2015, 11:40:12 PM·2 votes·880 views

Dear Riot, You say you listen to what the players want, well I personally would like a west and East Coast server. I have spent oodles of cash on your game (more than i would like to admit) and would like to feel respected as a customer. I understand that you lowered the ping for 75% of players, good job. Yet, a true fix would not require the sacrifice of 1/4th your player base. I would love to keep playing league, however, as a consumer I refuse to be trampled on. A real solution to the Ping issue would make the game better for EVERYONE.

11 Comments

Borkahn8/27/2015, 11:43:32 PM3 votes

They appealed to the masses. Really It's high time the West Coast deal with some of the crap ping the rest of us have had to deal with. While mine only dropped from 80-30, most others I know had their ping drop from 100/150-50-80. That's a huge improvement. Deal with it

Sniper 08/27/2015, 11:45:39 PM3 votes

So what you're saying is for riot to make a server dedicated to 25% of players? Seems legit.

Sairek Ceareste8/28/2015, 3:20:15 AM2 votes

How dare there be a 2040 ping discrepancy between the coasts now, rather than 100150! [/sarcasm]

Tryzzor8/29/2015, 12:04:20 AM2 votes

People are only saying they like their ping is because its better then what it use to be but for everyone else its worse. Mine jumped about 40 ping more plus lags and spikes. Personally there should be west and east servers or Canada and usa servers one of the two because freaking Europe doesn't need two flipping servers

warpenguin5558/27/2015, 11:50:40 PM1 votes

bye then

Pretty Dhizi8/29/2015, 12:00:55 AM1 votes

Pretty sure trying to balance out so all-players are within the same ping-level and on-screen reaction speed level is the best thing that could've been done.

East coast players tolerated 100-133 ping on a daily basis before the server change. i've played for going on 5 years now, and I was always around the 120 mark -- It didn't affect my gameplay, but it was apparent when I was playing against someone on the west-coast with superior ping rates. It wasn't a fair playing field for those who had a ping-based disadvantage.

Sorry, but you're going to have to get over the servers becoming centralized. 25% of the US-League playerbase is not enough to dedicate a server too -- are you saying you'd enjoy waiting 40 minutes for a game, with a 10% risk per player that they may dodge the game, or AFK when they've finally ended up in-game? The population to dictate a server for the west-coast isn't large enough. If our population was Russia-sized? Sure. But US sized? Not even financially worth it, let alone, a singular server is much more easier to manage.