I'm done with this game.

NexusFire·3/20/2015, 8:13:12 PM·2 votes·604 views

Servers... nuff said.

I may not have the best internet in the world, living in rural ontario and having your house too far away from anywhere to get dsl or cable and having a wonderful speed of 200Kb/s download... thats right not KB Kb!! But at least I can actually play most games fine, I can play any game on steam and on ps4 with no lag. But then there is my favourite game, league. I'm sick and tired of playing league with 300-400 ping when i'm NOT LAGGING and then spiking from 900-1200 for about 20-30 minutes. I dont want to quit this game because i've invested over 400$ in it. But like seriously rito better servers pls. EU has east and west... why not NA?

2 Comments

mvargus3/20/2015, 8:37:15 PM1 votes

I'm not sure its Riot's fault. If you follow internet tales and stories the east coast ISP groups have all tried to extort money from Riot by deliberately squeezing the bandwidth of people trying to play the game. Riot was told to pay huge sums of $$$ to the ISP corporations or the connection from the east coast to the servers would continue to be poor. Moving the servers won't change the fact that its the iSP providers who are deliberately causing the high ping problems.

Sadly there is little to nothing Riot can do other than continue to refuse to pay the extortion and try to find a way to force these companies to operate properly. The problem is that Netflix did pay the extortion, so Riot is fighting against that precedent.

CaptainTatertits3/20/2015, 8:39:32 PM1 votes

For your info...

when servers are getting DDoS'd or are otherwise acting up, ping doesn't go up in client. it stays at whatever it is, usually under 100.

You just get weird shit happening, like player motion stops (but ping still updates), slows down, people start running, then going slow, etc.

If your client measures a high ping, it's on your end bro.