Now that the Russian & CIS servers are ready to be launched, what's the point of having separate EUNE and EUW servers?



We all know very well that the population here is the smallest of all the servers currently running, and with the exodus of the Russians the queue times will be worsening. It was also evident last season, that due to the lack of players etc., even the elo-based rewards were slightly different.



The server is called Europe East & Nordic - yet where are all the Nordic players? They're on EUW of course. Me myself as a Finn have not encountered a single Finnish person on this server, neither have I seen but a handful of Danes, Norwegians and Swedes. Feels silly, that when I started playing this game, I chose EUNE for the Nordic part of it, yet I have since then discovered that there are no Nordic people here (or their number is very small compared to EUW). So now I'm stuck here alone among the strangers, and am unable to get friends or play with people who share the language and lifestyles.



Also, not even pro teams play on EUNE, because there is basicly nobody playing around here and nobody to practice against.

Gambit Gaming? They're all on EUW despite Riot's intentions to have Russians play on EUNE. Heck, even Edward, who is from Omsk himself, played on EUW from the start.

Dragonborns? Swedes and Poles - you'd think they'd play on EUNE. But alas.

The list goes on.





I really think something should be done and ask Riot kindly to do something about the issues of EUNE. Maybe us, the lost and lonely sheep of Nordic countries, could get a cheaper transfer to EUW? (I mean c'mon, we need to pay 2600 rp for a choice that we thought was the right one, but later discovered to be the opposite) Maybe the servers should be merged due to the decline of population? Surely the amount of players from EUNE servers would not overload the EUW servers.



Any other opinions from the community, or the Rioters?





EDIT: Nearing 7k views and already 13 pages in this thread, yet not a single Red drop-by. As a matter of fact it's been 6 days since the last Red post on EUNE (@Sleepy Sorcerer).

There is clearly demand for something to be done about the current state of EUNE, and Riot either doesn't care or there is something else going on.

Keep supporting the thread and maybe we'll get an answer eventually!



EDIT 19.5.:

Four weeks have passed and this thread is still going strong, and that's great to see. Some people have suggested that similar thread is made on other servers' forums, but I kinda disagree with spamming like that, as fruitless as this has been so far. It's evident that Riot should have noticed this thread already, yet they choose to ignore the subject. A shame, I would say. Either way, keep bumping and replying to the thread and maybe we'll get a word or two eventually, hopefully.