Seriously, we need US East Servers

HandDa·9/30/2014, 6:27:29 PM·43 votes·2,195 views

I am just a regular east coast player. But I bet there are many more here having the similar thoughts.

To my best knowledge, all the major cable Internet service providers in east coast are barely able to provide supbar connectivities to AWS's west coast servers. For years, i as many other east coast players, had to suffer from the 100+ ms latency in LOL. Although it's still playable, yet it prevents players to play the competitive level they wanted to. It's by no mean a good user experiences.

Given LOL is on top of AWS, it should be relatively easy to establish new US east servers, right?

Riot, can you pull this off for all east coast users?

35 Comments

ColinFly10/1/2014, 7:38:27 AM7 votes

Why not just have centralized servers somewhere in the midwest? I know it would feel like a waste to basically scrap your west coast serverbase, but having a centrally located source of connectivity would benefit literally everybody.

Vellich0r9/30/2014, 9:51:37 PM5 votes

I enjoy league and have found that playing under 70 ping I feel almost invincible (I know because sometimes I randomly get decent ping) but living on the east coast i have to deal with 110+ regularly. It's just not very fun to know what it feels like to play with great ping (where I probably could hit plat-diamond with some effort) but have to deal with subpar ping (where I dont think i could make it past gold without trying REALLY REALLY hard and getting darn lucky)

John Berserk10/1/2014, 12:36:33 AM3 votes

Splitting NA into two serves (NA West and NA East) would split the playerbase by quite a bit. This wouldn't be like EUW and EUNE, where the regions/countries speak different languages anyway, nearly EVERYONE in both NA West and NA East would speak English, so while this would indeed solve some latency issues, it would cause other issues, like separation of friends and ranked teammates and such. It's not as simple a solution as you think.

UnicornViolet10/1/2014, 9:22:14 PM3 votes

I think one of the reasons you don't see this get more forum attention is because there's that other 50% of the NA community who obviously doesn't want East Coast servers. NGL, if I lived in California I would love taking advantage of the freelo from superior ping rates over my Eastern competition.

Glamazon9/30/2014, 8:45:38 PM2 votes

Typically I average around 70ms. I agree it's annoying seeing people with a 50+ ms advantage.

Wasabo9/30/2014, 10:29:30 PM2 votes

Could people on the West Coast still play with people on the East? Are you saying we need a new region, like splitting NA into 3 (or 4) parts? (Canada, Mexico, US West, US East) or is this just technical new servers that won't affect regions?

Angry Monster9/30/2014, 10:30:34 PM2 votes

why dont you guys go bitch to your cable provider and demand better routing and connectivity? I find it funny that you think the only solution is that riot needs to move. Why not have the internet providers actually make changes on the system?

breezyplanter10/1/2014, 8:41:18 PM2 votes

Agreed. I love East

Proelium10/1/2014, 9:41:19 PM2 votes

"We're working on it"

"This is important to us"

"Trust us we aren't ignoring you!"

"We aren't ready to talk about it yet, stick with us!"

"Soon!"

All things I heard 3 years ago from the Lore department... then they came through far far too late and far far too weak...

precambria10/2/2014, 1:33:06 AM2 votes

I live in Toronto Canada and I used to get 32 ms, now I am lucky if it is under 110 (80 at best) which in comparison to under 70 is crippling. I used to consider myself pretty good at this game now I can't even play half of the time, if I log in and see 140 it's time to play a different game. I thought this must be my ISP it must but on further investigation that is 100% not the case especially considering I did have good ping before and nothing at all on my end has changed.

Anyways QQ I'm pissed because I have played LoL since closed beta and spend considerable amounts of time and money on something I can no longer enjoy for reasons that are beyond my control. I like to believe that if they could fix this they would which leads me to believe they can't so I should just not bother.

Yes I have tried most of the possible fix advice with no results.

Impossum4/25/2015, 9:53:05 PM1 votes

Agreed.

Mandaari10/2/2014, 1:51:13 AM1 votes

A couple months ago I moved from NH to CA. Went from 110+ ms to 20 ms.

Iamboringtoo10/3/2014, 8:13:23 PM1 votes

Bump

EQLjvD6dn710/7/2014, 2:10:35 AM1 votes

Why hasn't this been done already?

Feral Heart11/12/2014, 5:40:46 PM1 votes

eAST COST SERVERS WHERe!

Eleshakai11/12/2014, 5:43:11 PM1 votes

Honestly, Riot's intended solution is far better than simply having two sets of servers. For those who aren't aware, Riot is currently in the process of working with ISPs to build a giant backbone that will be predominately - if not exclusively - for LoL traffic. This should eliminate most of the cause of East Coast ping since distance is, although most people won't believe me, NOT the primary cause.

nyXdeGIhok10/1/2014, 12:54:26 AM1 votes

yes

Sukishoo11/30/2014, 4:05:00 PM1 votes

I'd love it if they split the server up. Would be so much nicer.