NA East Coast Servers~Ping

Mr Breezy·10/23/2014, 3:40:42 PM·104 votes·15,276 views

So now that we completely understand that the server migration in no way, will stabilize or decrease the ping of East Coast players(Typically in the range of 90-100 ms), how are we to compete at a competitive level?

Its been proven, and pro's themselves have centrally located or moved west, just to take advantage of playing on 10-30 ping.

How can you keep a game competitive, when half the population has a competitive advantage over the other half, BEFORE THE GAME STARTS!?"

The fact I have considered moving to the LAN Server, which boasts a 50 ms ping , and Spanish, I'm disheartened I've even considered moving servers just to feel I'm on a level playing field.

Riot has constantly put off these comments and failed to address our concerns. How long until enough is enough?

Ps. money isnt an issue, reported revenue of US $927 million , this past year.

TLDR; Make the East coast equivalent to the West.

Edit: Can we get a red post with insight into the issue, not a "I'm not on that team but its in development".

123 Comments

Lumus Avatar10/23/2014, 3:47:46 PM20 votes

I don't understand why they have thus far refused to set up servers for the east coast - sticking with just the one server in Cali - when they have several servers throughout China and SE Asia

slippykitten10/23/2014, 5:36:35 PM18 votes

how many posts like this are going to be made before people realize that riot is a crap company? Riot will not address this as long as they have your business. They are making money hand over fist, so why spend those profits if people are still playing? Trust me, if half the country stops logging on, the east coast will have servers inside a month.

That Skill Shot10/23/2014, 3:44:24 PM12 votes

If only we were in the scope of Rito's vision, the east coast does not exist.

Legendari10/23/2014, 4:21:29 PM11 votes

Seriously considering moving to LAN for next season... way too many connectivity issues this season and playing with a 120+ ping just isn't fun...

I really don't understand why a game as mainstream as this, which is promoted as a competitive e-sport, doesn't have a more balanced playing field.

Pudii Pudii10/23/2014, 5:53:20 PM9 votes

A hefty investment that will bring them nothing more than customer satisfaction, and maybe a bit of money due to happy customers. The fact that riot won't come out and comment on the issue is embarrassing to say the least. I've never seen a company come off as unprofessional as Riot Games forward their customers.

I've even tried to have conversations with their IT staff thinking that maybe I was missing the big picture (I graduated in August with a bachelors degree in Information System focused in networking) so I thought hey maybe I'll hear it from the horses mouth and try to explain it to my friends who are fed up to the point of quitting. But they won't even hold conversations with anyone about it, so sensitive and secretive about everything I'm really curious how far the hype and ignorant bliss of their customers will carry them before people realize how poor quality of service they are providing us.

I've tried in LAN and I loved every second of it, shame it'll never happen on NA.

Drunk Old Man10/23/2014, 9:30:59 PM7 votes

I live in Sacramento, CA which is fairly close to the servers. I sit around 38ms in game, which is pretty good for the type of game LoL is. I have two servers; one in Dallas and one in New York. I connected to both remotely, and I get 58ms from Dallas and 87ms from New York (around 80ms is the transfer time for cross-country in the USA). Your ping in LoL is much, much more reliant on the quality of your connection than your location in the United States. A good route from the east coast to the west coast will still give you less than 100ms ping times, which is still quite playable.

Now, onto the topic of server location, I do agree that to be absolutely fair to both sides of the country, we should have the servers located in the central region of the country. Of course, some people will still complain about how people in central USA will have the best ping, but both coasts would have around 50ms average, which is completely playable.

Seth the Bum10/23/2014, 5:07:17 PM6 votes

I'd certainly appreciate an East Coast server. I mean, even far less successful free-to-play MMORPG companies have the sense to include at least one server per side of the U.S..

On a side note, I really think we need a new abbreviation for the Latin America North server, because I always find myself rolling my eyes whenever I see someone say they're so fed up with the North America server's ping that they're going to move to a Local Area Network.

KetuBann710/23/2014, 11:18:58 PM5 votes

I wish I could have a 40 ping.

Zarxis10/24/2014, 5:06:53 PM4 votes

Bump for Red visibility.

Best Lolicon NA10/24/2014, 1:47:49 PM3 votes

The day I can play league with under 100 ping will be a glorious day.

Penguin Eclipse10/24/2014, 7:41:09 PM3 votes

For what is it worth Elophant has a chart for average ping by tier.

http://www.elophant.com/league-of-legends/charts/tier?region=na&period=week

Not sure how accurate it is or how they get their statistics. I can't see Riot handing that information over. Challenger is notoriously inaccurate due to the small sample size.

That Skill Shot10/24/2014, 10:21:22 PM3 votes

Bump for Reds

Rîsinîum10/25/2014, 4:42:31 AM3 votes

It isn't necessarily the high ping that is the problem, it is the packet loss and ping spikes that is the problem. I would be fine playing with playing on a steady 90-100 ping. However randomly jumping to 150-240 or getting disconnected is unacceptable, for a company that is as successful as riot.

Gnãrly10/23/2014, 8:24:22 PM3 votes

Play strife.. 33 ping on east coast server at the moment. Let riot know there is some real competition out there.

Zaikyo10/23/2014, 4:30:34 PM3 votes

What I don't understand is how some days I sit at 85-95ms, and other days I sit at 130-140ms. For days at a time...but all of my other games have a static ping that I can expect. There also doesn't seem to be a middle ground...it's just one or the other.

Like, can I just get one shitty ping to get accustomed to playing with? Since the high ping itself will never actually be solved?

David Haller10/23/2014, 10:31:06 PM1 votes

I don't understand why everyone's going ballistic over ping in a MOBA. Why's everyone treating League like it's CS:GO?

"I got 60 ping, not 10 ping! RAGE!" As if that was really going to turn the game around for you in a fucking MOBA.

I live in rural Arkansas with a 4MB connection. I generally get 'meh' pings at best to any game I play and I've never once felt a ping-related issue when it came to competition on League.

Server stability on the other hand would be something to rage about. "Attempting to reconnect" issues would be something to rage about.

But this just seems like you're hunting down excuses for not playing well.

People have already offered examples of east coast players that played and/or are playing competitively before you ever made a thread about how shitty your connection was.

That's PROOF that your entire point for complaining about this is moot.