[2020] I play from Middle East (Kazakhstan) on European servers, and this is what it looks like

Originally posted by hi_im_light

I don't think I've EVER seen 35ms even here in NorthEast USA. What's up with that?

Originally posted by goingbytheday

How about servers that are actually for North Latin America? Mexico is only one country and is far away from the other latin american countries. Any chance you guys are gonna add a server for Colombia?

Originally posted by CringeBinge247

Any current plans for South Africa?

Originally posted by kinautomatic

Hi good day sir! Would just like to ask about the servers that serve the Philippines, the ping is very volatile its either 45ms whole game or 103ms. When can we expect a more consistent ping? Thanks!

Originally posted by nevercatalyst

What about RUSSIA? When am I going to be able to solo queue without getting 4 russian teammates? Imagine playing against a 5 -stack, while you youreself always have 3-4 russians on your team who can't communicate and wouldn't do it in english even if they could. How is that fair and what is riot going to do about i? It's literally killing the game in eu..

Originally posted by 123tejas

So seeing as there are no India or Middle East Riot accounts, this means that what server you're restricted to is entirely client side then?

I feel like if this is true and out in the open, then it would be nice to allow cross server play for customs and premade 5s.

Originally posted by Lelouch4705

Does that mean people with accounts in those regions will just notice a seamless transition to the new servers?

Originally posted by dyaa123

Will that help the players in egypt and north africa?

Originally posted by strider_5k

All my friends here also get the same ping

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Originally posted by Stitchlolol

In theory, but in reality we have better ping in your Singapore servers as these yield us with around 50-70 ping while Hong Kong servers give us around 100-150 with varying packet loss.

It would be better if we had the option to manually choose the servers that are available in our region. Its very frustrating to be automatically placed in HK servers and to be forced to play with 100+ ping when we know we would have better chances at consistent and reliable ping in Singapore servers.

Originally posted by Shadowws

What about the Caribbean? Same thing happens with 60-80 ms

Originally posted by GreatDario

Can those of us in Hawaii or the Pacific get a dedicated server?

Originally posted by cleanhappylife

Same here in East Europe, everybody has 45-50ms ping on the servers. Except for some rare lucky bastards with 15ms ping.

Originally posted by hi_im_light

North East Pennsylvania. I've never had lower than around 60ms even since beginning of LoL.

Originally posted by qBlackPT

Any eta on Madrid servers? For us (Portuguese) will be a big improvement in ping for sure!

Originally posted by khazadl

Can we know when Madrid servers are gonna arrive?

Originally posted by Darkoplax

Can we get a better servers for North Africa please ? the closest one (Tunisia) is Frunkfurt and it's 50 ping at best (some of my friends go down to 40 so their internet is better probably)

But is there plans for closer servers like in South France(Monaco/Marseille) , Italy or Malta ? like anything that's close to mediterranean sea ?

Cause honestly i prefer to play in Europe but with just closer servers if possible

Originally posted by theredvip3r

Maybe you could fix the current servers that are way less responsive than the beta and death match servers

Originally posted by DrayanoX

It's possible to choose any shard for custom games (I'm pretty sure once we used Tokyo servers for the lulz and played on 300 ms), is there some technical reason to not allow cross-shard play on customs or is it just because of latency ? I don't see too much of a problem having a little higher latency for custom games if it means we could play with more people.

Originally posted by krazybanana

Do you use AWS servers? Pakistan, despite being close to both countries doesn't always get the best routing to servers in them. We get the best routing to AWS servers with 20ish ping to Mumbai.

Originally posted by maci01

Playing from Boston, MA and when I hit the Virginia server I get 25ms (nice!) but sometimes I get Chicago or Georgia and I see 40ms. Are there any plans to select which data center to connect to? Other games usually selecting NA East wouldn't route to Central US. I realize this is nit picky considering the video but I thought I'd ask..

Originally posted by rikontv

@ZealousApathy what about israel? We too have been playing all this time on mostly germany/EU servers on 80-120 ping.

Originally posted by batepress

Please fix East EU being mainly routed to Istanbul... I personally can't take it anymore, even though I've tried to stay positive about it in the past month.

Almost 99% of all matches are Turkish only - either voice or chat - toxicity at max, when you're the only English speaking person in the whole match (it's like 1vs9 all the time).

Enough is enough! Whose "brilliant" idea was it to put together 4 regions (EU, TR, RU, Middle East, etc.) with such huge communication barriers and issues on just one server?

I would gladly sacrifice and play with 40 ms (Frankfurt 1 and 2), but with at least English speakers, than right now with 24 ms, but not understanding a single word and getting reported just for being the only non-turkish speaker in the whole match.

Originally posted by kinautomatic

I think I have a decent solution, how about allow us to see our pings before entering the game in agent select, so we can opt not to push through if ever the ping is high on the lowest ping server possible at that time 🤔

Originally posted by maichaelsr

Hey is Valorant and LOL server same? Because India needs LOL server too...

Originally posted by raspberry_moonshine

Hi ZealousApathy, while you guys work on the India servers, can I please ask that you do not region lock it. I would like to continue to be able to play with the SEA friends that I have made while playing valorant, and if valorant servers in india resemble anything close to the CS servers in India, it's just not going to be a fun time (toxic). I live in the southern half of india and I get 40ms ping to Singapore, and I know many who have decent ping (sub-70) even in the north.

Originally posted by Esp10n

Hey there! Really appreciate the updates! Just wanted to ask if you'd be able to route Middle Eastern countries (Specifically the United Arab Emirates and the surrounding countries) to SEA servers as we get better ping there. In EU servers, we struggle just as much as OP showcased with a minimum of 124 ms. We tested created SEA accounts from Dubai specifically and played around 20 matches which consisted of us getting 84 ms. Wouldn't it make sense to route us there rather than EU as a band-aid fix until ME servers are out?

Originally posted by zeeshanish

Thanks for the update Zealous!

So will Pakistan be part of Mumbai (SEA) or Bahrain (Middle Eastern) servers?

Originally posted by dustygamer

Hi ZealousApathy. Thank you for the straight answer. I just wanted to talk more about ping in Kazakhstan. For csgo we have a very playable ping of 65-70ms (from Almaty) to Stockholm. The ping is much higher for Warsaw though (110+ms). I assume that Kazakhtelecom (the biggest ISP in the country) have optimized the routing. I'm hopeful that something similar could be done for Valorant.

Originally posted by MaestroLA

/u/ZealousApathy ok, what about Madrid servers in Europe?

Originally posted by fromtheundead

Bahrain will come before Mumbai? Or both at the same time?

Originally posted by protagonistjeep

Is announcing the official dates for the servers soon?

Originally posted by userdeath

Will there be some changes to region transfers?

It would suck if some players lose like $500+ of skin bundles and then be forced to wait ages to pick up each skin individually from the store.

Originally posted by xGT77

so when a middle-east get a server. Riot account will be transferred to the ME server, my point is League of legends also will be hosted on ME?

Originally posted by Lower-Advertising731

hey u/ZealousApathy i'm from tunisia and i play with 50-60 ms in eu and that's good but i would like to play it in arabic , can i play it in arabic in eu or no ? And thanks :D

Originally posted by protagonistjeep

Any news on ME servers announcement date ☺️

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Originally posted by EnVadeh

Hey! Let's make the release date of Indian servers a secret between me and you 😉

Originally posted by EnVadeh

Too bad I'm experienced being rick rolled. You could not get me this time!

And I have another question

Do you think that adding low grade cheaters and match fixers from other games like CSGO will have an issue on the pro scene of valorant?

Like all the B tier cheaters and match fixers of CSGO are playing in Valorant which is making Valorant seem like this shit version of CSGO.

I would love to see Valorant have it's own original players rather than B grade players who failed in CSGO or got banned for cheating/match fixing

Originally posted by Everdale

Hi, just wanted to ask, will countries near India like Pakistan and Bangladesh be re-routed to the Mumbai server? My Pakistani account currently connects to EU - which nets me about 160 ms. Weirdly, I get 100 ms connecting to the SEA region, but Pakistani accounts can only connect to the more ping-heavy EU and not SEA.

Originally posted by protagonistjeep

Hi zealous any news on the servers ? Patch 1.09 is out and first strike tournament was announced for ME.