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Stop Asking for Two Servers. Stop saying its not fair.

Purdrew·8/29/2015, 2:15:44 AM·2 votes·716 views

I'm tired hearing the West coast moan. _ "Why move the server!?", "HOW ABOUT TWO SERVERS?", "WoW has two servers"_

And you know what else WoW has? A monthly subscription rate.

Servers are not inexpensive. Especially these professional gaming servers. You would have to acquire mass professional hardware, lease space in two different states, maintain servers and hire staff for two places more than half way across the company, and don't even get started on legal costs. Its not feasible... or necessary. I understand the people who say they spike to 250, but there is nothing wrong with 90 ping. Heck, thats pretty much better than what many have been dealing with for 4 years across the world. Heck, your brains reaction time runs at about 300 ping, if you are talking milliseconds.

Its really expensive and not feasible. But Riot has an expanded player base they need to accomodate, so what could they do instead?

Move the servers to accomodate the most players possible.

Which they did. Successfully.

"Why didn't they pick a central location like Denver"

Central by geography is not the target. Central by player density is.

Chicago was honestly probably one of the best choices they could have made. Thats why their educated and professional team made that decision. Yeah. If you are in Hawaii or Alaska, that sucks. But I have got news. You are an extreme minority of players. It doesn't make sense to cater from you and even you guys should understand that. It was a purely mathematical decision.

Riot improved the performances I bet for 70% of players, hurt it for 2%, and honestly made no difference to the rest. I'm not counting as going from 35 ping to 90 ping in California as a bad change. I bet you all my RP you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference if you weren't told what it was.

Thank you Riot for your educated, mathematical and strategic decision to increase the gameplay for the majority of your player base. You will always have people who cry, but I commend your efforts to make our experiences better for the masses.

We love you Rito.

10 Comments

J Epstein8/29/2015, 2:21:40 AM2 votes

You have a bad poll. You don't include people who have had worse ping since the move. Thus, I deem you down voted.

Zeurth8/29/2015, 2:26:15 AM2 votes

I feel yes the bad ping is bad for west cost players and putting a server on the east coast was needed. But taking the server from the west coast was not the way to do it. East coast players had been playing LoL despite the ping issues because they genuinely enjoyed the game. I don't feel like the east coast ping was fair but they chose to play despite knowing this. So it makes no sense to force Hawaiian/Alaskan players to basically quit because of something already known despite continuing to play the game. Edit: I'm getting around 120 ping most of the time, which I'm not really liking but it's whatever.

Look8/29/2015, 2:26:26 AM2 votes

Although I agree with the server move I can see why it would suck for some more then others. Although this sucks I bet those same people asking for two servers would complain even more when their queue time goes up to 15 minutes for just a normal game.

I could be completely wrong, but does NA even have 1/2 the number of players as EU had before they split? I mean active players not just accounts made.