Official launch in Australia/New Zealand

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

[QUOTE=MasterMartinez;575060]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

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.

[QUOTE=darkligihdelica;577089]Me too. but i already been playing since the 13th and already have 5 well established characters

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