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Thank you Riot Games

Mathlete864··4 votes·452 views

I would like to step back from all the requests and hate from the community and take some time to thank the company for all the work the put into entertaining us. You work hours making the game perfect and trying to keep millions of people happy.

  • The programming: I have dabbled in programming myself, but I can't do anything more complicated than programming the computer to play rock paper scissors with you :/. The many lines of code you have to write for all the different entities in the game are probably in the millions. I can't imagine the hours that you take typing, refining, debugging, and testing the games coding. Thank you Heimerdinger

  • The textures/models/animations I am not an artist by any means. I know that making models and then "painting" over them to make such a detailed figure must be very hard and requires a lot of patience. Animating the characters many movements must be very hard. The work you guys put into making the maps is much appreciated.

  • The servers: Troubleshooting connections across the whole world? Of course it won't be a 12 ping 100% of the time. Thank you for the work you put into making the game run fast and enjoyable for us.

  • Listening to the playerbase You work so hard trying to keep us happy. Thank you so much for giving us U.R.F again. And the fact that our ideas are heard and talked about at your company means a lot. You guys listen to our requests on voice chat, and fill us in on it. Thank you.

That's all I have to say at the moment but you do so much more than I have listed. Thank you riot!

P.S. Now can I haz sum RP?

19 Comments

SEKAI2 votes

The servers is only the best in NA, come to OCE and you shall know what it feels like to have actual d/cs in this game.

Listening to the player base? Not sure if this is intended as a joke since they really stopped doing that some time ago, only selectively pick up some to back up their actions instead of being the initiatives.

While certainly they have put efforts in programming, art & textures and musics, but really the main meat, being the balance is completely off.

Riot does a few things right, however everything else is either mediocre or straight up horrible, which imo, is not really acceptable, given how much of a market presence they have.

S H A Y C 01 votes

yes i could look it up, but im going to ask instead. What region does oce cover and where in that region are you? I agree with what you said btw. And even in NA, there is only one server that covers us and canada and is stupidly place on the far west of the continent to ensure the majority of the region is outside the area of "good service" im sure you probably have worse service, and my heart goes out to you...because on the east coast us, its not very good :-\ i cant imagine it being worse.

SEKAI1 votes

OCE covers pretty much Australia and some surrounding countries like South East Asia region.

But the server is hosted in Sydney on the eastern coast of Australia I think, not sure.

I am not entirely certain whether it is due to our ISPs, Riot's servers or both being unreliable, d/c is pretty common here unless you're playing in off-times like 1AM, otherwise prime time players are pretty much bound to run into problems.

S H A Y C 01 votes

Its probably a combination of the two, but Riot is almost certainly not doing everything they can do to make it better. If they refuse to do it in the country they hold their headquarters, i highly doubt they would be motivated (or competent enough) to do any better in your region.

S H A Y C 01 votes

The servers: Troubleshooting connections across the whole world? Of course it won't be a 12 ping 100% of the time. Thank you for the work you put into making the game run fast and enjoyable for us.

Google figured it out...just sayin

Pinging google.com [192.232.16.35] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.232.16.35: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=55 Reply from 192.232.16.35: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=55 Reply from 192.232.16.35: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=55 Reply from 192.232.16.35: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=55

Nybx4life1 votes

It's fine when you're pinging the US servers in the US. It changes when you're trying to ping from other countries.

S H A Y C 01 votes

just like riot...they have servers in other countries. They wouldnt be directed to the us servers.

Nybx4life1 votes

Connections would vary, however. I'd assume the network infrastructure of Europe or Australia isn't the same as the US.

S H A Y C 01 votes

they still manage far better ping times...even if we're only talking about the NA region, Riot stubbornly refuses to either place the server in a strategically sound location to serve its client base or place another server to better cover the region...like in EU. Im not saying the service in EU is exceptionally good, ive heard many complaints from them as well, but at least they figured out that a service area that size requires more than one server location.

Nybx4life1 votes

In ideal conditions, maybe, which would be around the morning/early noon times like the time of this posting.

But in regular server conditions, the load is far too high for a simple ping to determine the connection to a server when you require much more bandwidth.

S H A Y C 01 votes

But in regular server conditions, the load is far too high for a simple ping to determine the connection to a server when you require much more bandwidth.

What did you even say?

Nybx4life1 votes

Sorry about that, let me clarify:

A server ping doesn't require much, and would vary at different times, depending on how many people are playing on a specific server.

Yet, given the server's peak time where many people are playing, those pings would be higher. Which is why you could ping Google at say 3 in the morning and that would say nothing about how the network is at 3 in the afternoon.

Google is very reliable; ping times are usually low and can handle many people connecting to it. Riot...not so much. Which is why people have queues to login to the game at some times, or the game has ridiculous ping times.

Let me know if you're still confused. I'll try to clarify myself.

S H A Y C 01 votes

ok, now i understand...how is that a rebuttal to

place another server to better cover the region

? or was it? I am under the impression that you disagree...

Nybx4life1 votes

Actually, I agree that another server would help.

For a second, I thought you disagreed... now I'm confused.

S H A Y C 01 votes

Riot stubbornly refuses to either place the server in a strategically sound location to serve its client base or place another server to better cover the region

thats what i said. I understand completely how load testing works, i can not load test riots servers because that would be seen as an attack, and the FBI would likely come looking for me. What i do know, is that if you have to stagger something as light weight as "log ins" your equipment is insufficient to handle the load, and if 50% of your clients have horrible ping times, while the WEST coast has great ping times..even during peak hours mind you, and the rest of na which includes an entire country, then you have not placed your server in the optimal location to serve your client base.

there is a server in florida...NA cant use it...but if we can speak/read spanish, we can switch to the latin american server and..again, even during peak hours, get a far superior response time.

in the end its Riots piss poor planning and implementation that causes our poor service.

i had to make a bunch of edits..if you read anything absolutely retarded please forgive me, i did very poor proof reading..and i did it poorly like 3 times.

Nybx4life1 votes

I got what you said, and you make sense. For that, good job.

Unfortunately, while I do have fluency of spanish, I don't think transferring servers retains my friend list or my match stats.

What a shame.

S H A Y C 01 votes

No it doesnt...at that really sucks. But what i dont understand is if that clearly solves the problem, wtf riot get us a server?

Nybx4life1 votes

Maybe they're trying to save up all the pennies until demand for a new server reaches a fever pitch.

S H A Y C 01 votes

i totally thought we were there already...guess not, lol

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