Official launch in Australia/New Zealand

Bioware, can we please get an update on how you are progressing?

I think it's too early to expect an update, maybe 2 weeks before their official launch target for AU/NZ.

I hope when released officially here that we get local servers.

I've tried a couple of different low population servers and the ping is making the game unplayable.

It swings badly from 250ms to 1000+ms in a second and for no reason i get disconnected.

Remember these are on low population servers not high.

If BW gives us local server(s) with decent ping, i will come back but for now the game is frustratingly unplayable.

Will the current maintenance schedule be kept when the game releases in Oceania? It lands right on a prime time evening/night for us (Tuesday 7pm AEDST onwards).

Many Europeans will be very interested in the answer to this question as well.

This is great news for Aussie and NZ gamers. It's not often we get geographically advantageous servers in worldwide hits like this.

I would like to echo previous posters' sentiments regarding a sub 50ms ping. It would be very much appreciated. I would quite gladly reroll for an even playing field.

I'm playing with 200ms on average, which is very playable. Maybe check your isp see if tey have any connection issues. I highly doubt australia will get local servers, look at what happend in WoW where telstra screwed them over so it just ended up being an oceanic tab where the servers were still located in the U.S.

Ah, but then Blizzard was approached by another Aussie ISP some years later (inet I think?) and Blizzard said no. Also, EA did have Oceanic based servers for warhammer online, so they would have cost and profitability info already.

Yeah. A few years back iiNet approached (begged) Blizzard to let iiNet host Australian WoW servers for free, but I think Blizzard decided it wasn't worth the trouble after the whole Telstra thing collapsing at the 11th hour.

I actually work at iiNet on the team that manages our game servers, and I know we have a lot of staff & customers who love SWTOR, so I think I'll put an email through to Bioware offering to host the Aussie servers in our datacentre.

Feel free to lend support to this idea if you think having sub-100 ping iiNet-run SWTOR servers around Australia would be a good idea!

If a Bioware rep would like to get in contact with me regarding this, my contact info is in my profile. I'll put an email through to contact@bioware.com too.

What should be done is take the bottom 20 servers and make them Aussie servers, offer free transfers for NA players back to NA realms and offer free transders for Aussie players who play on NA realms over to those.

Win/win.