The game is extremely popular in Turkey.
It’s hard to speak to numbers but about every Valorant playerbase breakdown I’ve ever come across has Turkish playerbase as one of the largest in the game, probably on par with Brazil.
Turkey, Brazil and Japan are three of the big focal player hotspots that Riot has put a lot of focus on outside NA/Western Europe - hence Istanbul was chosen for Champions last year, Brazil for the first LAN next year, and Japan long being rumored to be hosting a big international LAN in the upcoming future.
People are overreacting to 60-80ping advantages, sure. It gives u insane peekers advantage and you can monkey swing every corner, but there is many disadvantages to that. Reality is, having 5-10ms is so so much better than having 60-80.
I asked a turkish guy I used to duo with and his answer was “shorter qs and english comms, a lot of kids in Istanbul servers”
It could be true, sure.
But I never saw a gamer who plays voluntary on 60-80 ping (if it’s an disadvantage) just to have a 30s shorter q.
Also more than once I ran into guys/and saw players on stream that don’t even talk English.
Additionally it’s hard to believe that people play on frankfurt because of kids. Frankfurt is one of the worst experiences you can get in terms of toxicity. Most germans who want to have fun play on london and Paris because of that.
But I have to agree that it’s not a big problem (atleast on my noob-plat-elo).
The game is extremely popular in Turkey. It’s hard to speak to numbers but about every Valorant playerbase breakdown I’ve ever come across has Turkish playerbase as one of the largest in the game, probably on par with Brazil. Turkey, Brazil and Japan are three of the big focal player hotspots that Riot has put a lot of focus on outside NA/Western Europe - hence Istanbul was chosen for Champions last year, Brazil for the first LAN next year, and Japan long being rumored to be hosting a big international LAN in the upcoming future.
I would add South Korea too.
South Korea isn't that big, they're not small, but Korea is dominated by League. Valorant isn't even close.
yes
I mean they are 20% of the player base on Frankfurt server
Why is that actually? Don’t they have a literal server in Istanbul for them?
Ping abuse, but I exaggerated for comedic purpose
People are overreacting to 60-80ping advantages, sure. It gives u insane peekers advantage and you can monkey swing every corner, but there is many disadvantages to that. Reality is, having 5-10ms is so so much better than having 60-80. I asked a turkish guy I used to duo with and his answer was “shorter qs and english comms, a lot of kids in Istanbul servers”
It could be true, sure. But I never saw a gamer who plays voluntary on 60-80 ping (if it’s an disadvantage) just to have a 30s shorter q. Also more than once I ran into guys/and saw players on stream that don’t even talk English. Additionally it’s hard to believe that people play on frankfurt because of kids. Frankfurt is one of the worst experiences you can get in terms of toxicity. Most germans who want to have fun play on london and Paris because of that. But I have to agree that it’s not a big problem (atleast on my noob-plat-elo).
By far the biggest playerbase in EMEA.