CourtneyWoods Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 BioWare and LucasArts are excited to announce that Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ will officially launch in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1st, 2012! Fans in these regions who purchase the game will be able to experience their very own Star Wars™ saga on regional servers. Players who have already begun their journey will also have a limited-time opportunity to migrate their characters from their current servers to Asia Pacific servers after the launch on March 1st, giving them the chance to take advantage of the decreased network latency by playing on a regional server. All players who qualify for a character transfer will be notified in early March with more details. Read More Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzr Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 First, Most people in AU/NZ already have the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbourne Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Will it be Free and will it be for all of our characters ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantargon Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 May I be the first to say... WOOOOOT! A question though: where exactly are the servers going to be located? Actually in AU/NZ or SNG or JP? (before someone asks, yes, it makes a huge difference as many ISPs route traffic for ASPAC countries via their links to the US making the latency _worse_ not better when accessing servers in "their region") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinadan Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Hopefully the server migration is indicative of upcoming overall server transfer options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Karsk Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Hopefully the server migration is indicative of upcoming overall server transfer options. This.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vislo Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 This.... Double this. also woot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joaby Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I'd also like to know exactly where the servers are going to be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruub Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I'd also like to know exactly where the servers are going to be! Probaply somewhere in Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaGun Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Hopefully the server migration is indicative of upcoming overall server transfer options. Server transfers is a good start. Now where's the faction transfers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reaperkeepet Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Hopefully this will bring more people into the game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MolagAmur Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 and server merging going to be implemented Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangwl Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 BW, Do you really expect those server will have a balance population (economically, general population-wise [for HEROIC/ Ilum/ OPs quests] & rep vs. Emp factions)? I don't think it's wise to migrate... those countries have good, fast internet services, latency won't be an issue at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErnieVega Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Sounds pretty awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obek_kwae Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 BioWare and LucasArts are excited to announce that Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ will officially launch in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1st, 2012! Fans in these regions who purchase the game will be able to experience their very own Star Wars™ saga on regional servers. Players who have already begun their journey will also have a limited-time opportunity to migrate their characters from their current servers to Asia Pacific servers after the launch on March 1st, giving them the chance to take advantage of the decreased network latency by playing on a regional server. All players who qualify for a character transfer will be notified in early March with more details. Read More This is awesome to hear finally. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandonSM Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Now were really going to see if this game can compete with WoW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willw_oz Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 May I be the first to say... WOOOOOT! A question though: where exactly are the servers going to be located? Actually in AU/NZ or SNG or JP? (before someone asks, yes, it makes a huge difference as many ISPs route traffic for ASPAC countries via their links to the US making the latency _worse_ not better when accessing servers in "their region") Steven Reid stated on a TOROZ (Podcast 26) on the 11 of Febuary that servers would be located in australia. Though no details were given, he implied Sydney or Melbourne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beliglath Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Any news on the rest of the red zone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schluka Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Do we HAVE to change servers?? I'm in both republic and imperial guilds on my current server and I don't want to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matteis Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Free Xfers, nice hook-up BW. Thumbs up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmogaddict Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) Will our legacy experience also transfer across to the new server or just our characters? Can we pick which characters on our account can transfer or is it automatically all the characters in an account on a server (our entire legacy) that gets transferred? (if we opt for a transfer) Will our charactrers have to be a minimum level to transfer? (Over level 10?) Edited February 14, 2012 by mmogaddict Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaverseoz Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 May I be the first to say... WOOOOOT! A question though: where exactly are the servers going to be located? Actually in AU/NZ or SNG or JP? (before someone asks, yes, it makes a huge difference as many ISPs route traffic for ASPAC countries via their links to the US making the latency _worse_ not better when accessing servers in "their region") Servers definitely going to be located in Australia: http://toroz.com.au/2012/02/oceanic-server-location-confirmed/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faydark Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) The news article says that transfers will occur AFTER the launch, and that we will be given details "early in march". Does this mean that there will be naming conflicts when the older characters are transferred? Or is there going to be a process to "reserve" existing character names on the new servers (at least until the transfer window is closed)? Thanks. Edited February 14, 2012 by Faydark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iandidar Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) I know the Ausies are excited..but what happens to those of us on the current Ausie servers when they all leave and our servers are all but deserted? Our guild was assigned to The Harbinger. We're a US guild...and already have a very hard time operating during normal US hours since the majority of our server is on Ausie time. Has there been any plan to combine those servers, or allow us to move to a populated server when/if the majority of our server takes advantage of the move? Edited February 14, 2012 by Iandidar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xterminatz Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Finally the wait is over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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