Riot, just make two NA servers please

"Some of you may ask, 'Why not just keep the Portland servers online and create separate servers?' Ultimately, our answer is simple – the community. Today’s NA community traces its roots all the way back to the beginning of League’s open beta in April 2009. Starting from a grand total of three hundred players, in less than six years the community has swelled to millions of us. We’ve all been there together through League’s constant evolution, and continue to welcome new players from across North America every day. For us, the preservation of the NA community is worth any effort, and with that in mind we’ve focused all our energy on creating a stable, long-term, single-server solution."

This is terrible, terrible reasoning. Why don't you poll the player base? I'm sure 90% of us would say we would rather all have lower ping than everyone have moderate ping. "Does everyone want a great experience, or a pretty alright experience?" It feels like you're shafting more people with this change than helping.

If the player base has grown to millions just in the NA region, why not make 2 servers? It's obviously needed.

If it bothers you so much to not "keep the community together", then just don't lock the regions and allow free transfers so we can play with any cross country friends.

I literally cannot fathom a reason why you would doom everyone to 'not bad' ping when you could give everyone great ping.

Take of your nostalgia goggles Rito HQ. You aren't a little company anymore. You may pine for the days of your close-knit community, but the game is just too big for 1 NA server anymore.

Besides, just because there are 2 servers doesn't mean the community will just disappear. We're still a community based on our love of the game, making 2 servers literally changes nothing (besides giving everyone a better experience.)