Riot is smol indie company with only a few servers :-/

tru it is so sad maybe we should make a patreon for them

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we understand completely. they only make 5 bread crumbs a day to feed their families and the server is running on a TI-84 calculator.

Dude TI-84s are like 90 bucks, Riot can't afford those. They're probably running on something more like a TI-30X

They had a variety of resources to use to prepare and it sure does seem that they used none of them.

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I know that massive server load is one of the hardest issues to prepare for. Overprepare and you waste a bunch of money on servers, underprepare and... well... shit like this happens, but come on. It should've been blatantly obvious they needed to invest more to get TFT up and running. I've been having fun in the mode but come on, Riot. Another in a long list of failures by them recently, I guess.

Not at all how datacenters work nowadays. It's not about "owning more servers" or whatever the fuck. They basically ask some one to host their shit, it doesn't matter whether it's 5 people or 5 trillion people. There should be no issue unless this billion dollar corporation simply doesn't want pay for anything.

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I know that massive server load is one of the hardest issues to prepare for. Overprepare and you waste a bunch of money on servers, underprepare and... well... shit like this happens, but come on. It should've been blatantly obvious they needed to invest more to get TFT up and running. I've been having fun in the mode but come on, Riot. Another in a long list of failures by them recently, I guess.

They should've known and prepared based off the PBE queue times, like it was obviously something a lot of people wanted to play, it's not that hard Riot.

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Indie Company remember? Only a 1.5 Billion Dollar Indie Company.

6 billion my guy, 6