Official launch in Australia/New Zealand

Unfortunately, you missed your chance BW.

By not having Oceanic servers at launch, that means Oceanic players won't change from the US West servers they're on, even if Oceanic servers are designated. There's not incentive, and they'll have already put a lot of effort into their characters. Even if given free transfers for all their characters, there is still no incentive to move once they've established themselves on the server they started on.

The only incentive is if the servers are physically located in Australia... but even that is not good incentive. Most Australians can easily adapt to the small latency issues they have to deal with on West servers. Furthermore, the rest of Oceania doesn't necessarily get better connection to Australia. And because the Oceanic community doesn't want to split itself in half, chances are most Australian guilds/players won't switch (because their other Oceanic neighbors won't).

The better thing to do is just officially designate some servers as Oceanic (at least Harbinger and Swiftsure). It would save you a LOT of time, money, and hassle.

Anyone else wondering if after 6 months Australia will have the player population to make these viable?

Yea, like i mentioned earlier, was so pumped to play this, and have been the last month and a half, and im done i think. Tor is just way to casual for my liking. Was really pumped about aussie servers finally too, now i dont really care 1 bit. Its a shame....

I honestly dont think making servers here is going to be very proffitable for BW, this is not the game gamers where looking for. It will pull some kids and maybe people that have never played video games and like star wars in, but people like myself that seek challenge will be looking toward something else im afraid.....

I want to cry.....

ROFL go cry some where else really pathetic.

We can confirm that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be launching in Australia and New Zealand in the spring of 2012.

Right now we are targeting March 1st, but that could change as our number one priority is making sure that customers have a great service to play on.

For those of you who may have already imported the game, we will be investigating solutions to allow you to continue to play on a local server once they come online in March.

EDIT: As pointed out, southern hemisphere seasons are reversed! When we say 'Spring' you can substitute 'Q1/Q2 2012'. Apologies for that.

why do I have a feeling this means the harbinger will go from one of the highest to one of the lowest pop servers in a matter of days...lol