I fear you are correct, sir.
By the time Blizz do their damn job it will be too late and who knows how many thousands of players have either rolled on a US server, rolled existing OCE or decided not to play at all by that stage.
Then we’ll be left with an OCE fresh server with only 4k people on it and Blizz will say “See, told you so, nobody wanted this.”
Everything you said is too true.
To think some nobody (I don’t mean this as derogatory) earning 90k/year will potentially derail millions in sales for literally not doing the bare minimum of their job.
Everyone saying “just play US” isn’t thinking about the fact that they’ll have thousands of frustrated OCE players sitting in their servers, it’ll be pure chaos.
Yeah not sure how many will be paying for fresh based in the US when you can get it for free elsewhere… 10 of my play group are going that way, the rest of us will probably follow TBH.
Blizz still get 6mths from me as I stupidly purchased a 6 mth sub for fresh…
They’re eastern, but who cares
Don’t pay for a sub to play on a foreign server, you’re being ripped off massively
Just play on one of the free to play private servers which will be the same but free
it doesn’t matter by this point, most the people who weren’t subbed already that had planned to come back are already past the excitement knowing that there are no Oceanic realms
They are gone & even if they did release one a few weeks later or so, I doubt the news would hit the thousands of aussies & kiwis that have missed out on the opportunity
Blizzard don’t know how to run their company & they don’t know how to communicate with their customers
But hey, at least they can change the genders in the game.
it’s a shame they did zero research ahead of time
Did anyone receive any email or anything at all seeking feedback regarding fresh servers for WoTLK? I didn’t
Nope but they tried to give me a free copy of shadowlands lol
every OCE player rolling on the US servers should just roll rogues & all stealth camp zones & make it unplayable enough for the americans to side with us & demand an oceanic realm
i’d laugh, itd never happen though, too many cowards will just pay to play on an offshore server & reaffirm blizzards decision to treat our region like we’re less human than others & less deserving
It would be hilarious to have a swarm of furious Aussies essentially bully Americans into getting us off their server.
After all this BS though - it’d be funnier to bully them into giving us a server, then mass quitting, because F’em
Maybe the tread needs to hit 1k before blizzard looks at it? Where is the OCE server… I repeat WHERE IS THE OCE SERVER!!!
100% agree, and I’ll be one of them, hit 70 strap on some epics run to STV and spend the next 4 weeks “helping” people
You rolling horde or alliance?
Both - nobody is safe
Alliance 
RGR I’ll go horde and sit right next to you to make sure we “help” everyone.
Wont roll an alt unless I got OCE servers
Can’t wait to drop-gank players trying to lvl in hellfire all day.
Can always just find out if you are in a group with other OCE and if not just do that good community building stuff like ninja from US players every chance you get? lol
“Oh I definitely need those green leather int/spirit pants, BiS on fury warrior”