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.
Onegarion1 votesThe 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?
Mirage Night1 votesIt isn't just stability, but true latency issues. it is very noticeable the difference in my performance between my NA account and my LAN account. With LAN having an avg of 60 ms, I have noticed a significant performance increase in character responsiveness.
Onegarion1 votesThen what do you expect Riot to do? Its not like its just simple to make people on the east coast have the same ping as those on the west where the servers on and adding new servers gives us an east/west coast difference like there is EUW and EU nordic. While that might be a problem I'm still not comvinced that the issue you bring up is near as important as consistency.
While playing at 40 ping or something like that would be really nice I'd like to just get through 1 game without having to spike out of control and at least say i tried my best with the hand I've been dealt, but doing that isn't the same if I have to say "well my ping was 2x normal so i couldn't move at all or in time so i lost." I'd rather play at a consistent 130 than to play 80, then 139, 82, 150, 300, 13, 439, etc. Playing at a consistent ping allows you to get use to a pattern and learn to time or predict things based on how quickly you know your champion will react. I can't really do that when I"m playing at 89 one sec and the next when i use my ability i'm at 450. The game doesn't respond like it should and now I've failed bc the game didn't read it in time. At least playing at 130 consistently would give me the knowledge and the ability to play at a consistent lvl no matter how much it would really suck to play over 50% of my normal ping.
I would hope LAN is less since you know they are running the same ping as you and are well you know right next to you so both you and those you are playing against are on the same lvl regardless of how low. I'm not going to ever expect RIot to fix the issue of getting East coast down to a lvl closer to West coast, but it doesn't matter either way if you are spiking all game even with your lower ping.
Mirage Night1 votesIn reference to LAN, it is the Latin America North.
Worgslarg1 votesI agree with the consistency. I used to have an average ping of 120ish, and now i rarely see below 150 ingame, and it's spiking where it never did before. However, as of later patches, it takes me far longer to use an item active like zhona's, even to the point where it will not activate, when I am not cc'd, and 1-1.5 secs later, i die.
That's my beef with lag.
Mirage Night1 votesChampions like Riven are also impacted immensely. To be successful with her, you need that ability to animation cancel. Without it, she is almost worthless.
Jinxed Amulet1 votesI 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.
Mirage Night1 votesMuch of this very player base is what got them started. It is company decisions like that that really piss people off. They offer special "rewards" for participating is ranked games, yet there is an unfair advantage for those who play on the west coast vs. those on the east coast. Where is the fairness in that. It is load of crap if you ask me.