Generic Reminder that US East Cost players are low-priority to Riot.
I thought this was more appropriate for GD considering it's the only board to get some good ol' fashion love. Cont'd from Miscellaneous.
Free transfers to a spanish-speaking server with no way to transfer back other than $20 isn't a fair deal.
Fun fact: Players from Japan and Korea get nearly the same ping (slightly worse or even BETTER in some cases) as United States citizens living on the east coast. A server, made for us, and we get roughly the same ping as other countries separated by an ocean.
I understand that east coast servers aren't suddenly going to win my diamond promos, but jesus christ.... It's a matter of decency at this point. It can't be that hard to get two servers set up in the mother fucking home country when they can quite clearly do it abroad.
Good to know.
It's not just east coast players. I'm midwest (Kansas City), my NA ping has been 100-120 since they moved NA servers to Oregon. LAN i get < 60. That, in addition to the NA server wetting the bed at least once a week lately, makes transferring a very interesting proposal... or perhaps I'll just get into a new game. Elite Dangerous and Heroes of the Storm calling my name maybe.
Middle of the country and crap ping. Who'd've thought. Other MOBA's have much more adequate servers..?
With games like halo 3 they had built in maps that would light up areas based on the amount of players in that area.
Granted it's a console game, but look at all those gamers out there on the East side. Sure sucks that Riot doesn't care about any of them.
Fun fact, US + Canada is 7.7Million Mi^2 Europe is 3.931Million Mi^2. Close to half our size, twice our servers. Wut.
Lastly I'll close with this emotional but accurate quote.
The message isn't that east coast players should transfer, the message is that east coast players can fuck themselves. For years, we've been given the same bullshit over and over again. A reddit thread or something in GD about the east coast will pop up, and riot will make a statement about how east coast players are very special and how they have an awesome plan to provide adequate service. They'll use some general networking terms and computer science buzzwords to make it sound like these things are already in motion, with no mention of any timeframe for completion. They will write a bulleted list of steps in their plan, then offer no feedback on how that plan is being enacted until 6 months later, when someone makes the same post about how playing from the east coast sucks, and riot has to come up with a new plan. Take the transfer if you want to play with better ping, my smurf gets 25ms, just don't expect anything from Riot so you can be pleasantly surprised when they don't fuck up.
12-26-2013 (Riot Foro - Network Engineer)
"This is something definitely on our radar, and has been a talking point in our various teams at Riot for quite some time now."
12-28-2013 (Riot Foro - Network Engineer)
"~100ms to the NA servers from the East Coast is something we can improve." "Latency buffs are coming. " "Further improvements are being discussed,"
01-28-2014 (Riot Foro - Network Engineer)
"This isn't something we're ignoring - but it's not something that is going to happen overnight either. Can't divulge any plans right now but we're working on improving latency for everyone in North America"
02-24-2014 (sonicdeathmonk - Vice President of Operations)
"Not promising East Coast game servers but I am committing to lower ping time for East Coast players"
06-07-2014 (Cedriel - Country Manager Chile)
"We recognize that East Coast players are not getting the same quality of service that West Coast players do—and we're committed to doing something about that. Wiser heads than mine are working on this"
07-07-2014 (Mark Merill- President of Riot Games)
"sorry if we've been radio silent.Will ping our team for an update since latency (driven by external factors) is on our radar."
