How are servers still so bad after 10 years?

Every 6 seconds, 400ms+ lag spike. 2 Months into a league. Years ago I would end up quitting each league due to exhaustion with this stuff but it seemed to get better 4 or 5 years ago but now days it seems to be just as bad as it ever was, just constant non-stop lag spikes. Is it some live server patching or what the hell are GGG doing? Do they just turn off 90% of the servers a month after league launch? Every single European server has this issue for me right now, no network issues anywhere but PoE. Same thing yesterday.

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justgivemeafuckingaccou wrote:

Every single European server has this issue for me right now, no network issues anywhere but PoE. Same thing yesterday.

The servers are fine, what's not fine is the terrible routing of the European internet provider and everything that routes through Telia severs ends up with lag spikes especially past 7pm gmt. It's a existing problem in many online games not just PoE.

Asked like someone doesn't know how the internet works even slightly...if/when there is a server issue they get them fixed quickly and they are open about it.

FYI this is what happens when there is an actual server problem (many posts about the same issue all on the one page, all responded to and acknowledgement of the issue and letting you know when it is fixed)

Servers aren't fine and yes many issues have persisted 10 years. Instance crashing comes to mind.
Given the number of players and server improvements I'd say it's been about the same.

Connectivity is a per player basis. I have no connection problems but I live right near one of the main backbone lines in NA. My ping isn't much different connecting to Texas as it is to Europe.

Well... Parts of Europe.

I get 150-160ms to any of the EU server even past 7pm gmt without any lag spikes and that all the way from the west coast. 25ms to the best possible server in range and 50-60 to the other NA server.
That's both pretty damn fine gaming conditions and I even get to play smoothly with friends in the EU on their local servers without problems. But yea sucks that EU has to deal with the routing issues past a certain time in any games. I don't miss these issues at all tbh.

So yea as is for the ping, the servers are fine even during league start situations with heavy player load.

can't remember when the last time the game lagged out and i play mostly on frankfurt and amsterdam.
it every gameserver in your neighbourhood sucks, it's likely the problem isn't the servers.