NO South Asian servers

Doc 007·8/27/2015, 2:30:27 AM·1 votes·1,608 views

ARE THERE NO OFFICIAL SOUTH ASIA SERVERS?? Hi Riot and LoL players from other region, I wrote this to express my views about the current issues with LoL in Garena servers: SG/MY, Vietnam,... With the recent results of Garena teams in World Championship in S3 and S4, I realised that the region that can produce champion like TPS are really falling behind other regions. It is not because we are lack of good players, but we are lack of a system that produce good players. So here is my view:

  1. There is minimal oversight on what is happening in games. Garena have a system of Game Masters (GMs) that do nothing but replying without solving the reported problems if they are brought up. They have no management over the toxicity of players in game. They are just there to represent an authority in LoL but have nothing to do with the games themselves. Reports are rarely handled, banning are luxurious here. Players in Garena servers have absolute freedom to cursing and verbally harassing other players. AFKs and trollers are abundant. As a players in many Garena servers, many people feel offended and angry because of these behaviors. It affects our game play and in-game judgements, hence our game skills. Such environment is clearly not good for any players and that is the reason why we are starting to fall behind. 2. The region is fragmented. We have different countries with different languages. Games are run on different servers with different languages interface. I understand this issues but this is clearly a big problems. Players on each servers will get to play only with themselves, without ability to access other country's servers. They even issued region IP lock, which only allow players from one region to play within that region, unless you use fake IP or something. It limits our ability to practice and get experience from players in better regions. There are limited opportunities for teams in Garena servers to practice and improve by playing with other better regions. The result of this is the poor result in World Championship in S3, S4. If you are watching GPL in the last 2 years, you can see the differences in term of quality of teams. 1st is Taiwan, then Vietnam, Singapore-Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and so on. Without opportunities, they are lacking further and further behind. *3. There is no community here. Or, to be correct, our voices are blocked. There is no platform for us to officially complaint or discuss about what is happening in our regions. The only platform provided is Garena forum. But say what you may, everything that you talked about in those forum, if they offended Garena or ruined their images or to be used as proof for something else where, they are going to remove it, banned your account forever. They monitor that forum better than anything else, even the games (refer to point 1). The community here have no ability to express out concerns about games contents, plays or anything of that sort. This is clearly different from EU or NA, where you guys have this splendid platform for discussions, solving your issues. That are all my viewpoints. With those issues, the region that has succeeded in season 2, will never have chance to rise again. As a players, I feel hopeless about this. I know that some issues are not easy to solve (like point 2) or Riot have no authority about it. But as a person who believe in my regions' talents, I hope that Riot, as the producers of the game and the one who have oversight about LoL in the world, do something or pressure Garena to do something about it. I have not came out with any suggestion yet because this post is already too long. I hope my and players' voice here is heard. Thank you. EDIT 1: Some clarification for those who don't know: In SEA, LoL can only played through Garena clients and system. If you log out of Garena, you disconnect from the game. The Ping for playing LoL in other places is up to 100+, depend on which country you are from and what kind of network they provide. Region lock only apply for players using Garena clients, which means I can play LoL in US server without region lock, but at the cost of very high ping. EDIT 2: This post is not about LAN. It is a viewpoint about the gaming environment and community in Garena servers. PS:Our player base is high too.

1 Comments

kitzz7868/27/2015, 2:37:31 AM1 votes

Im also from asia and i feel the same, i dislike garena and i feel riot should make a server for us