loldotcom Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Good, get 'em off the U.S. servers!!! What he said... Why wasn't this planned from day 1 anyhow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasted Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 We are planning on actual servers located in the area. The final location is being locked down, but when we say 'local' we don't mean 'in the US but with a label'. Cool, using the same deal that WAR had for the servers, I guess. Hopefully there's enough that are going to play on the servers to make it worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenReid Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 Great. Does that mean you will be able to get them off our servers? As said, we'll be exploring options to allow players from Australia/NZ who are currently playing on US servers to continue to play on their own local servers when they're set up. That said, please be welcoming to those who are playing on US-based servers right now, regardless of where they are playing from. While I know it's frustrating to wait in queues, everyone's just trying to enjoy the same game - and everyone has the equal right to play on any server they wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMikey Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 We are planning on actual servers located in the area. The final location is being locked down, but when we say 'local' we don't mean 'in the US but with a label'. That's the best news I've heard since somebody told me there was going to be another Star Wars MMO. Can you tell us if there will be Server Transfers available from The Harbinger and The Swiftsure (The unofficial Oceanic servers) to the Oceanic servers once they are available? I don't want to have to make a new character since i've invested so much time in the game already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puffy_mcchubchub Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Wow! thanks for bein supportive of us Oceanic players! nice to know there may be character transfer options for those of us that imported the game :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtKatharn Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Thanks for the good news StephenReid, so does this means that the big wigs have been looking at the ip stats of people logging in to the servers and seen how many Australian and New Zealand people are playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowsuko Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Stephen you and the rest of the team are doing great. The fact that you have announced this the day after launch (for Australian time) is fantastic and even better that bioware if planning on having actual local servers. Don't listen to the whining people out there, cuz they are the people you can never please. Thank you so much for this and a great game and hopefully you guys sort out some sort of transfer for the existing characters. Looking forward to this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChimDeathmonkey Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 They already took over our server. thanks for 3hr queues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushmanbob Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Free transfer would be great. Im In London at the moment but moving to Australia in around 5 months time. On a west coast server but if i can switch to an oceanic server i will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardie Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 (edited) Heres to free transfers for Oceanic players that want to play (that is it would be nice for everyone to have)... better late than never, I suppose. Edited December 20, 2011 by Shardie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elidion Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 What they should have done is put a few extra servers on the West Coast, labeled them as Oceanic and let their communities build now and get stress off the rest of the US servers. And then once the Aussie Datacenter is ready to accommodate the Oceanic servers they can be straight replications of the servers located on the west coast...and after a tuesday patch window, seamlessly have them in the new datacenter but same server/name. But hey...I do this sort of thing for a living so that is how I would go about doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeiVias Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 wow some people are actually complaining? Id give up my 50 in a heartbeat to reroll on a local aussie server with sub 50ms. Thankyou Bioware for doing something Blizzard has said no to for 7 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grailian Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Its great news for oceanic players but it does have a downside for us already established with guilds playing on US servers. I do hope there is not a mass exodus of aussies currently playing that decide to move server. I will buy a collectors edition from an australian store on launch but will continue playing on US servers. My opinion is australian servers are a bad idea and have never worked for other major mmos in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDiscoBoy Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Although I've already imported mine.. My Heart Sank when I read Spring 2012... Seriously, that's like some kind of cruel joke, almost a year away. Obviously it's clarified further on as March 1st, but still.. It's like saying, oh sorry, we didn't get you an xmas present this year.. oh wait. yes we did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushmanbob Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 blast. too bad i didnt know harbinger and swiftsure were the unofficial oceanic servers otherwise i would have picked them. im on Master zhar Lestin. Any other kiwis/Aussies on that server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elidion Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 (edited) blast. too bad i didnt know harbinger and swiftsure were the unofficial oceanic servers otherwise i would have picked them. im on Master zhar Lestin. Any other kiwis/Aussies on that server? Be glad you didn't unless you don't mind 4 hour queues. Edited December 20, 2011 by elidion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkligihdelica Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Wait Stephen just to clarify, does this mean that previously named US West, East, or EU servers that have a large Australian and New Zealand population will be renamed "Oceania"? Can you tell me some names of these servers that have large australian populations? Would love to hang out with other aussies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronistic Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 I love how people north of the equator are whinging and yelling at people in the Oceanic region to "get off our servers". They aren't your servers, they belong to BioWare/EA. BioWare/EA grouped those from this region via the Daisy Chain and termed the servers "Unofficial Oceanic" so that people from this region could play with others in the same time zone. Maybe if you had decided to research your servers a little better before rolling on these "Unofficial Oceanic" servers then maybe you wouldn't have to deal with us "Red Zoners". Anyway rant ended - thanks BioWare/EA for making a decision that will make a belated Christmas gift to all of us in the Oceanic region. Hopefully we can support the game enough to warrant the placement of local servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushmanbob Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Wait Stephen just to clarify, does this mean that previously named US West, East, or EU servers that have a large Australian and New Zealand population will be renamed "Oceania"? Can you tell me some names of these servers that have large australian populations? Would love to hang out with other aussies Me too. but i already been playing since the 13th and already have 5 well established characters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggs_to_see Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 What they should have done is put a few extra servers on the West Coast, labeled them as Oceanic and let their communities build now and get stress off the rest of the US servers. And then once the Aussie Datacenter is ready to accommodate the Oceanic servers they can be straight replications of the servers located on the west coast...and after a tuesday patch window, seamlessly have them in the new datacenter but same server/name. But hey...I do this sort of thing for a living so that is how I would go about doing it. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraithaur Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Woot low pings INC. Gone are the days playing wow when you couldn't sap someone cause of the lag. I think something important to note is the bioware have listened to every single thing that their user base has said. We said...*** no grace period, and they gave it back to us. We said...*** no AU release, and we get AU release and local servers. Sure we have to wait a few months. I am more than happy to be playing on US realms. Changing realms is not a big deal. Its like changing jobs or schools, for the 1st few days you don't know anyone, then you fit right in. Having chosen a Sith Assassin im really glad we will be getting sub 50ms pings. Playing melee in pvp sux when your lag dictates your sucess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_dingo Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 WOOT! Real local servers. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Dont listen to the winers too much, some people are never satisfied. Free transfers are a definite need, please. cheers Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkligihdelica Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 They already took over our server. thanks for 3hr queues your server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death-sticks Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 I love how people north of the equator are whinging and yelling at people in the Oceanic region to "get off our servers". They aren't your servers, they belong to BioWare/EA. BioWare/EA grouped those from this region via the Daisy Chain and termed the servers "Unofficial Oceanic" so that people from this region could play with others in the same time zone. Maybe if you had decided to research your servers a little better before rolling on these "Unofficial Oceanic" servers then maybe you wouldn't have to deal with us "Red Zoners". Anyway rant ended - thanks BioWare/EA for making a decision that will make a belated Christmas gift to all of us in the Oceanic region. Hopefully we can support the game enough to warrant the placement of local servers. i think it was the community who coined them the unofficial oceanic servers not EA/bioware, but never the less people really should research more before whineing about server ques. Personally im not playing one either due to the massive ques, i have a character on swiftsure, but that was on the first day of early access, and now i cant even be bothered waiting in the que just go to on and delete him so i can bring my main gaming handle across xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalnigma Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 We are planning on actual servers located in the area. The final location is being locked down, but when we say 'local' we don't mean 'in the US but with a label'. Words.. cannot..express.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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