Jedi-Callam Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 Hello STWOR Community & Fellow Australians, I am writing up this suggestion for us Australians who are having a bit of latency issues on the American servers. I personally believe that all the Oceanic servers closing is a bad idea, it has certainly upset me and impacted my enjoyment of playing this game. For an online game you expect to be able to play lag free unless it's you're own internet which is causing the problems. The US servers get so laggy sometimes I lag out of the servers. It's quite annoying so what I am asking is please open up 2 oceanic servers! One for PVP and the other for PVE. But please don't get me wrong I am a proud subscriber and will gladly continue playing but if you guys could reopen some oceanic servers that would make this game so much better and more tolerable for us Australian players. Please give this a thought and I would like a actual team member of SWTOR to please respond to this. To my fellow Australians if you agree with opening up some oceanic servers please bump the thread until it is seen and our word has been heard!
GatorAndy Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 Didn't they close the APAC servers because of low populations? I would imagine if it was financially viable, they would have left them open. I don't think they closed them just to be jerks.
Jedi-Callam Posted August 23, 2013 Author Posted August 23, 2013 Didn't they close the APAC servers because of low populations? I would imagine if it was financially viable, they would have left them open. I don't think they closed them just to be jerks. Yeah but still I would love to play on a server with 32 Ping instead of like 200 or 150 and stuff.
theUndead Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 As an Australian player I do not support this. As much as I enjoyed the low ping the fact remains the populations did not justify the cost of maintaining those servers. I don't want them back because on those servers getting groups were virtually impossible so as much as the ping was good I'm glad we were merged.
Vladnar Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 Coming from the perspective of a UK resident I find this a real shame and disappointment that a southernly planet server cannot be maintained even if its more from a service point of view and if numbers are that low at least they can have a choice perhaps OR more should be done advertising and promoting the game down there esp now its free no? Id like to see what he asks for for his benefit, but ofc they will want people to play with at the end of the day.
TheNahash Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 (edited) As an Australian player I do not support this. As much as I enjoyed the low ping the fact remains the populations did not justify the cost of maintaining those servers. I don't want them back because on those servers getting groups were virtually impossible so as much as the ping was good I'm glad we were merged. As players, we should not care about the cost of maintaining the servers. I have no idea what the cost is, but frankly, I don't think it could've been that high. That's Bioware's business and part of the service they're supposed to provide. However, your other point is what makes me agree with you - if the population was way too low to be viable, it makes the experience worse for the player so there is no real choice on the matter. They had to either close the servers down and transfer the people to US servers or merge the servers into one. The first option allows people to continue playing in the type of server they want. The second one doesn't and even if both options co-existed, the latter one would suffer most because people would still (I assume) rather transfer to a healthy US server of their choice than remain in a "forced" merged server. So APAC players would end up exactly where they were before the servers in a few months. Edited August 23, 2013 by TheNahash
skeptex Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 I wish I found this game early enough to play on aus servers, I understand how it may not be viable for them to have a server based in aus, but they need to make us all play on the same usa server. so when its 7pm here its not dead empty still on all servers, because all aussies are playing around same time. when the peak of our population is playing america is sleeping. easy solution is to make an aussie server but host it in Na. that way we all vs each other when pvping with the same ping. so the theres no unfair advantage cept some americans can come play if they are nocturnal gamers. sorry about broken english not a strong suite of mine, i just want to get my opinion across and see if anyone thinks it will help the Aus SwTOR community because this game rocks at 250 ping. 40 ping would just be next level ****.
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