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Why are the servers being moved?

Zuil··3 votes·574 views

Why not just add a central server instead of moving. Don't get me wrong, I can play on central ping (It'll hopefully be around 50-80 for me; I'm from Vancouver) but why is it that they need to move servers instead of adding them?

http://www.riotgames.com/our-games - According to Riot, 27 million players are playing this DAILY

If we compare this to DOTA 2 - https://gyazo.com/5f917f58dc9a2727e31a80214974b32e - Not even 1 million players are playing, not even at peak (I got this picture at 12:20pm west coast, probably not the ideal NA peak time)

So why is it that DOTA 2 has a West and East coast server. Riot shouldn't have a budget issue (You'd think with that 27 million players and hundreds of skins and other things that cost us money this shouldn't be a problem). And it shouldn't be a population issue (like my sources above, we're out numbering DOTA 2 by a ton).

I understand why Riot wants to move the server to Chicago, but it doesn't make sense when there is a better solution, sure it would take a bit more effort and dough to have another server, but this would be great -

  • People in the west and east would have low ping numbers
  • The highest ping would still be playable (Central ; roughly what, 60-70?)
  • Would cut down toxicity (probably a stupid thought, but lag makes people rage and in some cases, people watching people lag makes them rage)
  • Would help balance the game without having to even tweak anything on a champion

I'm probably going to be down voted cause "SUK IT UP WEST COAST ***" but I just don't understand Riot's thought process in this.

TL;DR - http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-03/26/19/enhanced/webdr06/enhanced-25942-1427414324-7.jpg

2 Comments

A Miss Fortune1 votes

West Coast use to have extremely low ping. 30 wasn't that uncommon.

East Coast had 80 - 150 ping being pretty common, and then you would occasionally have a spike that goes over 1,000 ping.

Riot doesn't want to split the servers I think largely since we have friends that we like to play with on each side, and I don't think It's that easy for them to just say "hey, you're all moving to different servers because we said so.". If West Coast players can't handle 80 - 100 ping, then I think It's time to stop blaming ping on sucking. 80 - 100 ping is absolutely nothing and even now with 35 ping I see relatively no difference at all.

Blu3 Blood Blues1 votes

yeah idk why they cant just have two everyones saying it the only one's downvoting this or saying otherwise either are just ignorant and suck riots woo hoo because there is no logical reason that a game with less players and less money can do things better than a greedl0rd company. oh and you get down voted because majority of the forums are bronze kids who dont really understand anything about the game as it is soo yeah they dont understand this either bcuz children.

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