Wikileeks Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 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. Your kidding right ,as soon as the servers go live here im moving no matter how many chars i get to 50 ,playing with 200 + ping at times is not fun in this game to fully enjoy it you have to have a ping of 60 or less imo ......e.g im playing you think your going to kill the mob or you hit a pot and your allready dead thats just 1 little thing there are plenty of issues playing with a high ping this game needs a low ping to get the full enjoyment.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthjerro Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 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..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikileeks Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Anyone else wondering if after 6 months Australia will have the player population to make these viable? YES there will be kiwis aussies and asians thats plenty of people ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roodys Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Im gunn join the aussi's servers just so i can hear sith say good day mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikileeks Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthjerro Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 ROFL go cry some where else really pathetic. Thats the thing, i got no where to go.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakinor Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikileeks Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 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 Well mate why worry about it just go to the server in australia that has all the people from switfsure and hardbinger or just wait and see when the server go live which ones have most people ,,,now if they move those servers from usa to australia its common semse the americans will leave but i cant see them moving servers cause to many americans will blow up complain.. everyone needs to take a chill pill god wait and see what happens . p.s think before you start your whinging peoples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabjat Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 There are a lot of players on Harbinger that give Australians a bad name. It's because of them I re-rolled to a server that has a more...friendly environment to anyone who doesn't happen to be Australian. Wish they'd gotten their local servers to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictoireStar Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) I live in Singapore, South East Asia, and from my past gaming experience, although geographically, we are very much closer to Australia and New Zealand, and even our timezones are closer usually +2/-2 at most +4hrs ,(Perth the same), than compared to the rest of the world, we seem to get better connection to US servers than Oz servers. I usually get 190-200+ms for US servers, and 200-300+ms for Oceanic servers, mostly australian.So yeah, despite the timezones similarity(as far as compared to the US timezones), I think I would have no choice but to stick to the US one, so I guess Swiftsure it is. *wave to americans, and the aussies who will stay here* Edited January 28, 2012 by VictoireStar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtorjkcbr Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Bioware, can we please get an update on how you are progressing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necrolepsy Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I think it's too early to expect an update, maybe 2 weeks before their official launch target for AU/NZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedijuicer Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sashandra Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrax Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreekSnake Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gangbot Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 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. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sashandra Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Funko Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Ah, but then Blizzard was approached by another Aussie ISP some years later (inet I think?) and Blizzard said no. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeonBraun Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Funko Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 (edited) 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. I disagree. Just renaming a bunch of servers located in the US as "Australian" isn't any different to what other MMOs are already doing. What we need are a set of Australian servers that are actually hosted in Australia, so we get the low-latency connection that comes with playing on a local server. Going from a 200-300 MS ping to a 100 MS ping might not seem like a big difference, but it's significant. Thankfully Bioware seem to be well aware of this! Yay Bioware! Quoting my previous post for the new page: 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. Edited January 30, 2012 by El_Funko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeonBraun Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I agree they should be in australia, but I think it makes good sense also not to be adding new servers. Simply re-allocate things. Better use of server space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force_Capitalism Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I agree they should be in australia, but I think it makes good sense also not to be adding new servers. Simply re-allocate things. Better use of server space. Not if that happens instead of us getting local servers based in Syd/Melb/whatevs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubernetic Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Great news for the Aussies and Newzies and others! Have the haters raged yet? I thought the game was supposed to be shut down by then? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertFisher Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 march 1st is like a couple days away. not even. any news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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