[OCEANIC SERVER] - Please Announce our server early

[Elronn-2793804 (Elronn)]

EDIT : OCEANIC SERVER SYDNEY CONFIRMED !!!

Thank you to everyone who pushed for this to happen on all the social medias/forums and thank you to blizzard for listening to our region and players.

Hello fellow oceanic players,

Classic+ Oceanic Server AU

With Classic+ now announced i am requesting you provide an Oceanic AU server and announce it well before release along with the NA server announcements.

A Brief History

What you’ve done to the oceanic region so far

• 1. Season of Mastery - Swamp of Sorrows AU you opened transfers on a server with an active playerbase and multiple guilds raiding and completely killed the server and any chance oceanic players had to enjoy an AU realm.
• 2. Season of Discovery - Shadowstrike AU you did similar briefly halted the transfers then proceeded to kill the server.
• 3. Anniversary - Maladath AU you went 1 step further right at the time players were returning and with a active playerbase and community and instead of just opening the transfers which would of killed the server anyway you completely moved the entire server location from Sydney to NA providing 0 communication which is absolutely insane.

The Mistakes

In the past you’ve refused to listen to the oceanic playerbase and made mistakes which have caused issues for our servers.

• 1.Creating two AU servers PVP/PVE instead of just one pvp server.
• 2.Not announcing an AU PVP server at the same time as NA server announcements.
• 3.Opening transfers consistently killing our servers repeatedly caused a lack of trust in players to even bother spending time starting on oce if they are always going to die.
• 4.Deciding the fate of our server just because we aren’t as large as the NA population despite many players not wanting to be on megaservers period.

The Request

• 1. Announce one single OCE AU PVP server for classic+ well in advance at the same time other servers are announced.
• 2. Commit and provide ample notice/warning that under no circumstance will this server ever open transfers to NA meaning the server will never be killed off or moved to NA entirely and allow players to make there own decision to play here permanently.
• 3. Encourage oceanic players to return to there own servers provide communication about our servers just like you do with NA and if needed implement systems/adjust things according to population numbers to ensure no matter the size of the server its still fully functional.

To the Oceanic Community

We have the opportunity with Classic+ to unite the entire oceanic community back onto our own server. We’ve had our own servers all the way back to Frostmourne and Arugal both being extremely populated and healthy.

When the time comes and Classic+ is being released and they do announce an AU server make the active decision with all your friends and guild plans to only play on AU with no consideration for NA whatsoever.

If we all commit to this we will not have any population issues and we can play on optimal ping within our own community of oceanic players to ensure we have the best possible experience going into Classic+.

What you can do to help make this happen ?

Comment like and support this thread and encourage others to show there support as well.

Start actively talking about the return of an Oceanic server for classic+ share the thread around and have your friends/guildies do the same.

Share it around on discords and be active on reddit/X or whatever other platforms you use to push for us to have our own server and for our own community to fully support it this time around.

Current Largest Oceanic Community Discord

• https ://discord.gg/67czeHDy52
• https ://discord.gg/wowoce
• Sub-reddit - https ://www.reddit.com/r/wowforeverOCE/
  This will be updated closer to classic+ release assuming an OCE server is announced.

Old Arugal Ranking Discord

• https ://discord.gg/RuhbS7w

Thanks for reading and i hope to see everyone coming together to make oceanic region great again.

Elron

[dorotea-3388704 (dorotea)]

Entirely agreed. They need to have announced what servers there will be (sorted by type of server and location) before name reservation day so we can decide where we want to reserve names. Ideally well before so friends and guildmates can talk and decide on going to the same server.

[nerfz-3447882 (nerfz)]

agreed, please announce OCE servers same time as everyone else’s

[Skarghan-3078883 (Skarghan)]

Yes please Blizzard, give them OCE servers.

They also should have their own Server category in Retail.
Sometimes I accidentally join a group with the leader based in OCE and my MS is slowly ramping up to 1000+ ms and it makes the game unplayable.

[Elronn-2793804 (Elronn)]

Hopefully they actually listen to the critcism i’ve provided and stop repeating the same mistakes.

We easily have the population to sustain 1 server as long as people know the server will remain active and never be killed off.

[Danktomb-2245446 (Danktomb)]

Great work posting this Elron. We must have an OCE server, and easily have the population!

[Slyfuran-3250919 (Slyfuran)]

Blizzard has the opportunity to set up the Oce region for long term success with this rollout. Please don’t forget about us again.

[Harch-1666876 (Harch)]

The popularity of WoW Forever is going to rival 2019 Classic, we need an OCE server.

[ZAU-103694 (ZAU)]

I agree an OCE server is deserved, but if they’re just going to do what they always do and screw over OCE with transfers and killing off the server, I’d rather they just don’t bother from the start.

[Elronn-2793804 (Elronn)]

Make OCE great again !!!

[Badkisser-35f38 (Badkisser)]

Big ask but…Region locked servers please! no one in or out that doesn’t belong there.

[irdoz-3034955 (irdoz)]

I hope you get your pvp server. Warriors now have the talent in classic forever to dismount people from range - makes me even tempted to play a warrior in pvp occasionally - but ill do my usual PvE server.

I got a bunch of oceiania pve’ers to sign a letter to blizzard asking for an oceania pve server in addition to a pvp server (these are only people who would roll nth america pve over any pvp server.) If there is only an oceania pvp server Ill probably roll a toon… but my main would be on a pve server. The good thing with forever is it seems there is an ability to take your time.

[Elronn-2793804 (Elronn)]

Like we already discussed there has to be only 1 oceanic server not pvp and pve it’s either PVP or they have some kind of warmode or since its on the modern engine if there able to have servers linked similar to retail then a pvp/pve would be okay as long as both servers are able to group for dungeons/raids/pvp etc.

If that isn’t possible we absolutely must push for 1 single server without exception.

[Hamlet-574510 (Hamlet)]

Thank you for making this post. It’s something I was immediately concerned about. Looking forward to an official response/clarification.

[Elronn-2793804 (Elronn)]

You’re welcome mate i would appreciate everyone helping keep the thread alive and at the top to ensure we are not overlooked until last second like in anniversary.

Hope to see all the OCE players get together and come out in force.

[doritoloco-3257523 (doritoloco)]

i agree give oce people servers but never alloww them to transfer off.. make them stay on the dead server or reroll.

[vaertigo-14698 (vaertigo)]

Surely an oceanic PVE server is going to be of far greater value, or as we just assuming that we’ll get one, hence the focus here on asking for PVP?

[irdoz-3034955 (irdoz)]

Nah for classic anniversary they only made a pvp server in oceania. There are over 1000 oceania pve’ers on the nth american server. The increased ping in pve doesnt make much difference - in pvp it can be game changing. We’ve been in circles on this discussion and came to the conclusion that a combined server with pve and pvp shards would be best - but that’s probably too much effort for Blizzard. I have asked but no response. For those of us who want to pve only then we dont have a lot of choice but to keep advocating if we want a pve server. I loathe megaservers.

[saerr-3448361 (saerr)]

OCE server is must have!

[Elronn-2793804 (Elronn)]

Every single version of wow that has released with oceanic servers the PVP server has always been larger and more popular/populated than the PVE that is why i ask for us to have PVP server.

But not opposed to warmode or if they can connect pvp/pve servers together and not split the playerbase so we can’t play with each other but if it comes down to either 2 servers pvp/pve and split or 1 server as pvp then the pvp server is hands down the way to go for the highest population and best success for the server to be stable long term.