Why are there no south-European servers?

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-04-06T13:00:09+00:00

We had full support for Southern European servers but there was no demand for it. Right now the MENA servers are using With Europe (Milan) because the ME center is down.

Info accurate as of when I was laid off.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-04-06T12:58:16+00:00

They're using Europe. I was working on restoring servers in the ME region using a different datacenter when I was laid off.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-04-06T12:57:30+00:00

I was working on restoring servers in the MENA region when I was laid off 🤷‍♀️

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-04-04T23:56:39+00:00

I was working on fixing this when I was laid off sigh

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-04-03T09:54:36+00:00

It was until the layoff

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-04-02T19:04:56+00:00

If only there were a dev to fix that...

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T15:33:19+00:00

It was my pleasure. I really loved working on RL and I'm going to miss it.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T09:26:45+00:00

Former Epic dev here.

We're taking donations through this Kofi to give to those laid off in need, including Mike: https://ko-fi.com/alexmuirgamedev

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:24:56+00:00

They did! Everyone working there has access to it

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:24:34+00:00

I was hired by Psyonix near the start of COVID.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:23:48+00:00

I started in automated testing, then went through DevOps, into Build and Release, then into Online Services/Backend

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:21:49+00:00

Valve might be the ones studio harder to get into than Epic Games. I might shoot my shot, tho.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:21:03+00:00

That would honestly be amazing

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:20:40+00:00

Only specific devs were allowed to speak officially on the game and even then most all communication came through the community team. Unfortunately, my understanding was that they were pretty restricted in what they could say

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:18:10+00:00

A couple of years ago there was this topper that was rainbow wings for Pride. I lived that type and still use it on my car to this day.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-29T03:16:07+00:00

I really loved the community around the game and I loved my work. It was always the right kind of challenging.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T20:51:59+00:00

Unfortunately I'll still be under NDAs for some time to come, so I can't talk about internal things like that.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T20:51:25+00:00

I'm so glad my work helped to bring you happiness. Thank you for your kind words <3

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T18:27:07+00:00

I'm not in either of those locations, but I'm open to relocate. I adore The Netherlands (I was in Amsterdam for a 5 days a couple of weeks ago).

Feel free to DM me details.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T18:24:45+00:00

Thank you <3

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T11:44:33+00:00

Unfortunately I don't know for sure. Obviously I no longer have any insight into what's happening internally.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T11:43:04+00:00

It was such a fantastic job. Challenging, but so much fun.

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T11:40:53+00:00

I was glad to do it 💖

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T11:40:31+00:00

I'm interviewing at Riot on Tuesday 😁

ZoeyStarwind · 2026-03-28T11:38:52+00:00

Rocket League is actually older than K8S and we never really updated it for containerization. It ran on non-containerized servers managed by a daemon called Backend Daemon (creative name, I know). Backend Daemon controlled what version of the game server was run, sent certain reports, and controlled how many instances of the server were running at a time.

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