Why are there not two Riot servers?

Fluxology·8/31/2015, 6:44:37 AM·2 votes·829 views

Is there anyone who can give a concrete answer to this question? Does this company not bring in enough revenue (for a free game at that) to support two, even three dedicated servers? Those of us with advertisement and economic understanding can see the reasoning behind the Chicago move, but that got me thinking of the obvious question; why are there not two servers? There are amateur game designers/production teams with several servers for their games, those of which have arguably no impact on the gaming market. So why not Riot of all names? No matter what any one says on the topic, the moving of this lonely server from one location on one side of the country all the way to the other side creates nothing but upheaval and dissent. Why not invest in two servers to support the Pacific AND the Atlantic? Would this not save future conflict (and create more jobs? ;))

Shed some light please

5 Comments

Pichugames8/31/2015, 9:08:36 AM2 votes

Player population wise, it wouldn't be great. If you're aware of smaller servers like OCE, they have ranked go down at night simply because there aren't enough people available for the queues. The west coast (and other pacific ocean areas) have a low total server population, so they'd get fucked with the whole server split (want good ping? You can only play during the day) or something like that.

Archon X8/31/2015, 7:35:23 AM1 votes

Because then the playerbase would be split. There are many teams (including one I am on) that have players from both the west and east coasts. Putting us on different servers would effectively dissolve the team.

Fluxology8/31/2015, 8:15:06 AM1 votes

Ok. I mean I can see the money being the primary concern...but I find that hard to believe with how massive Riot has become in the last few years. We just saw them release quite a few new skins, they're funding the championships (NA and internationally), they just made this huge move to Chicago and have more big announcements for other projects on the way..I just can't see how they justify living on one server to support the entire world of fans they have. I love playing this game, play it very competitively and have become what I feel is a respectable amateur, but the truth is my connection to it has been ruined. Ever since the move I've had unique new issues arise. I sit around 90-130 ping with considerable spikes, even after switching providers, firmware, and hardware. This affects my ability to climb pretty considerably. I just don't see the cons of creating one or more servers to support a widely growing player base especially if it means stability and overall player happiness. I think I could live with higher queue times..that would theoretically limit my play time which is surely a good thing.

yellowbricks8/31/2015, 11:32:08 AM1 votes

I've been playing rocket league and I can only laugh when I hear riot's server woes. In rocket league you can select one or multiple servers to play with, and it'll find you the best match possible. The players doesn't need to be split, but we're talking about riot games, the con artists who get away with charging 20 dollars to move your several megabyte profile to another server. Of course they won't try to do any better, that's what riot is all about.