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over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

This was a huge effort from multiple teams at Riot with Garena pitching in to help us. I would like to throw a warm Riot embrace to our SEA players. I promise we’ll do our best to make your experience the best we can.

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by ShadowJinKiller

will all SEA servers combine, or will it remain seperated server as of now?

Separate. There is a tradeoff between larger enough population of players to get good quality/timing of your match Vs having a good latency to the server. There is also cultural considerations as well.

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by prn_melatonin

Where will the servers be at physically?

They will be physically in a different place but still in the same country. So expect some variance in latency but nothing dramatic

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by DolundDrumph

Dude every few months i used to complaint about this garena on this sub, now we finally have sun shine

Welcome home. If we arent doing well please let us know.

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by prn_melatonin

So the server is in Singapore?

Yes. Latency for players in Singapore is expected to be between 5-15ms. Current average today is 12.5ms for 80% of players

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by TheEternalKhaos

Hey there, if at all possible can you pitch the kind of stuff that Garena does as cool little events that coincide with big skin releases to the higher-ups, where you get points by winning games or winstreaking, and through point milestones you receive epic skin shards, chests and keys, orbs, and loot bags as rewards, with the final milestone giving you a legendary skin shard? It was the one redeeming quality of Garena servers. There was also one for the recent Star Guardian skin release where you would unlock a piece of clothing for your poro (I think it was a poro? maybe a pengu) in a dressup game on your first win, and you had 3 gifts to give out daily where you can select what article of clothing you'd like to give out to whichever friend you chose. It unlocked some sort of benefit to another set of rewards IIRC. I'd like to think that a lot of SEA players would miss these kinds of events.

Will do.

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by CLGbyBirth

hows the ping ? not sure if people will be happy having 9 ping to 100 ping on these servers.

We will have servers running in all the same regions so it should be very similar. The only caveat is that hardware delivery timelines are not predictable, so we may host some games out of nearby locations for a few weeks but i expect nothing like 50ms+ latency.

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by dumb-on-ice

Hey I had a question that I don’t see addressed. I’m in a somewhat rare situation. Since 2015 I’ve been playing on SEA servers (NA before). I have basically all champs unlocked (except 4-5) and a bunch of skins. Recently I moved to europe and now I’m demotivated to play because I’ve lost all my things and couldn’t transfer account cause of garena.

So I want to know would I finally be able to transfer to EUW from Singapore server after this move?

I'll need to verify but i would think it is likely you will be able to.

over 1 year ago - /u/spawndog - Direct link

Originally posted by Davezdgc

I hope you could at least merge the PH, SG and TH servers and just separate the VN and TW servers because the queue times are just horrible.

This is certainly not off the table for the future. For launch we wanted to reduce the risk and try to keep the initial transition as frictionless as possible.