replay system, Fair ping for everyone in the united states not just californians or anyone closest to the far west coast (worst place possible for a server) dont even get ip bonus weekends for how expensive they are. 20$ skins that few buy are good and all but id like to just have the simple things thanks.
Worst Mid Ever3 votesso basically you want riot to take focus away from their $20 a skin money factory and instead buy more servers for you to play on for free
Genuwhine1 votes"free" do i need to remind you how much riot made this last year? If they dont want to look like total jackass's you would think they would have more than one server for an entire country, games like cs go, call of duty, dota, you name it that makes LESS money than this company cant do something as simple as make a fair playing field for the players that support their game which is the biggest in the world. So dont pull that free bull shit, if anything they are being extremely greedy. Its like if a girlscout gave you a choice of cookies between free shitty ones and good ones that everyone buys but she only sells them to white people (west coast) all the black people (mid,east coasts) just want access to the same cookie that the white people get
Genuwhine1 votesand its not like there is a shortage of cookies they could easily sell them but they chose not to
Deep Terror Nami2 votesRiot was working with the major ISP's on a deal to get their own service; something no one else has done, or even could do. Idk where they are with that, but you would be bowing at their feet if you knew about it.
Genuwhine1 votesyeah and how well is that working out? i can play in cali wisconsin or new york in cs go dota and every other game, meanwhile "major isp deal" i get 40 ping cali 70 ping wisconsin and 125 in new york. 5 years later. hows that goin for ya? because i dont enjoy not being able to play all the champions in the game
Genuwhine1 votesbut with every other game i get 40 ping in every location.
Deep Terror Nami3 votesLearn to read; I just said I don't know where they are with the deal. That ping isn't very high and is not stopping you from playing any champion effectively. Only you are.
Genuwhine1 votesi want you to go right now on either ask.fm/lsxyz9 or twitch.tv/imls and go ask the coach for gravity what champs i cant play with over 40 ping he will name a bunch including lee sin, jayce, ezreal, you cannot play these skill shot champions properly with that much latency. But go argue with an lcs coach sounds entertaining. "isnt very high" lmao anything above 30 is high.
Deep Terror Nami2 votesOh so you're a Challenger level player shooting for LCS and getting coached?
Genuwhine1 votesEven if i was its besides the point i am talking improvements about the game you say its fine when its not i give you facts and proof you give me back talk. The difference between an educated man and an ignorant boy.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesNo I asked if your gameplay was drastically affected by this. You are acting as if a little extra ping is holding you back from LCS (and you're even referencing the Gravity coach to back you up), yet in reality the only thing holding you back is you and your anger is unfounded. Stop making excuses; excuses will not fix your personal failures.
Don't bring up an LCS coach as your excuse when it has nothing to do with you.
Genuwhine1 votesi never mentioned once lcs or anything like that, ping holds back your gameplay in general its not fun no matter if im playing an aram when i die or could have gotten a kill or something because my lets say mystic shot takes a second to shoot from when i want it to. I think you should take that reading advice of yours. I did say an lcs coach would agree that ping effects champions but what you are talking about makes that irrelevant.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesI don't think you know how ping is measured if you are claiming your mystic shot takes a second. Shows you're just a salty troll angry at everyone else for his own faults. When you are called out for your nonsense you even regress into saying you're an educated man and everyone who doesn't agree is an ignorant boy; you are a lost cause. Have a nice day.
Jubbinaut1 votesmy lets say mystic shot takes a second to shoot from when i want it to. I think you should take that reading advice of yours.
If it's taking that long, 70-120 ping isn't your problem. That's more likely to be caused by dropped packets.
Keep in mind that ping measures only the time it takes a single packet to travel from you to the server and back - and is measured in microseconds. A ping of 70 means that trip takes .07 seconds. The differences are meaningful, but tiny.
Worst Mid Ever2 votesthey don't get anything for setting up another north american server, it won't attract more players and people like you won't actually quit because of the lag
i played on NA from Australia for 2 years, on 400+ ping every game, its not even that bad
Genuwhine1 votesyou arent a very good troll. i know many on many people who have quit the game just because they cant play all of the champions below 40 ping ask any pro, coach, anyone who actually knows the game.
Toastey1 votesThis guy's right, actually. There isn't a meaningful replay system in League--in fact, I remember when Riot changed their game so that it would crash if you were running the then-popular third-party app LOL Replay. People have found workarounds by streaming their games and just fishing out the VODs, but even that's a band-aid solution at best, and one that's not accessible to a lot of people with lower-end computers that can't stream.
As for higher latency in non-west coast regions, I haven't seen it firsthand so I can't say if it's true or not. However, he's definitely right in saying that skillshots are significantly more difficult with higher latency. Actually, EVERYTHING is more difficult with higher latency. Maybe if someone has to play with 150 ping every single game, they might get used to it and be able to adapt. But if you're not playing with a constant ping (maybe because you're on the move a lot and different regions get different ping), then it's pretty much impossible to judge how much lag for which you have to compensate.
He's also right about Riot have plenty of cash to go around. Riot Games has only been growing in the past few years. The evolution of the League esports scene is a direct testament to Riot's growth and metamorphosis. Unfortunately, they seem to be more concerned with money grabbing at this point than actually, meaningfully improving their game. Don't get me wrong, they love their game and it's still a very high priority to them--it's just that I feel the game is slowly being forced into playing second fiddle to the profits. Glaring bugs like the Sivir spellshield invulnerability go unfixed; Riot instead opts to disable the champion for competitive play while they continue to churn out skins and other superficial content like the talk show /ALL Chat. Various other champion bugs as of late have been treated similarly, taking unacceptably long to be addressed. I think Viktor and Caitlyn are still bugged right now, as they have been for at least a month.
I'd really like to see Riot return to its humble, relatively small roots wherein the company and the game were in service to the players, not the other way around. It honestly feels like the players are Riot's cash cows today, and that Riot is only interested in balancing around the competitive scene. League has ceased to be a game. It's a sport. And sports don't accommodate their amateurs. I want League to be a game again, a game in which everyone could have fun at every level free from an oppressive, imbalanced metagame. And while I understand that League needs to push its freemium model to bring home the bacon, I'd really appreciate it if they didn't take every possible opportunity to shove RP-only purchases in our faces. If they're going to roll in this much of our dough, at least do something meaningful for the game with it. Make a replay system to help players learn by watching themselves. Get better servers or service, whichever is the problem at the moment. And for the love of all things good, update the damn client so that it isn't a souped-up Internet Explorer (that's literally what the League client is, a heavily modded Internet Explorer).
I'm not here to knock on Riot Games or their hard work. I'm just here to say that while I understand that they've put a lot of labour and love into the game, they're putting labour and love into a lot of the wrong places.