Where do you think Riot should have invested their money and resources?
Frankly, I play the game to play the game, not to watch some else play it. It is more frustrating that I have a ping of 135 while I see pro players complain when it goes up to 40. This issue should have been taken care of a long time ago.
The thing is tho thats its not as cut and dry as you chalk it up to be. They are complaining about usually a 50% increase in spike and thats quite substantial for what they are playing at and does it really matter anyway what they play at?
THe problem I really see with the east coast ping is that with the recent shutdown of the NA server today I decided to make an EUW account and my ping was consistently 115-120. Which ofc is rather high for me. I had all my usual things running in the background too, browser, twitch, spotify playing and I had very little flux outside of that 115-120.
My ping on the NA servers was typically 82-90, but recently I can't avoid having it over 100 and usually closer 150 and typically rests around 130. So my problem isn't about whether the pros/esports is really low, since distance alone will cause latency to be higher, but why I'm able to have a better and more stable ping when connecting overseas and on a different server than connecting simply across our country to play the game. My past game alone I started with a ping at 130 and it rose all game to almost 500. It ended up "fixing" itself and dropped to around 116, but again I say why is my ping on NA the same or worse than my ping to the EUW servers? Thats the real head scrather and I can't seem to ever run anything but league when I'm playing on NA since the ping just shoots and sometimes seems to fix itself when I have more things running.
Its just doesn't make any sense and would really seem more appropriate of a question to ask Riot why NA ping on the east coast is the same or worst, definitely more unstable, than EUW from the same place?
I don't see why Riot can't manage both. They should hire someone to help them allocate their resources efficiently if they are unable to do so. Esports helps raise brand awareness which is important for any company trying to grow (which Riot was when it was much smaller). Now that they are more established it should be easier to transition their resources into creating more stable servers...otherwise they can lose a large amount of playerbase.
The way I see it, a bunch of East Coasters/Canadians will stop playing eventually because they are UNABLE to play due to lag...and then Riot will add new servers/fix stability issues, or they'll preemptively do that..or choose not to add any and take the loss of those players.
