Give us our own region then, we don’t want 200ms arenas. Have you ever played competitive Arena on 200ms? You literally lose games because of your latency it’s infuriating. The oceanic player base does not want this. I tell you what, if it’s not so bad. Why don’t when an OCE team queues into an NA team, make it a 50/50 chance of where the server is hosted and see how long it takes NA to complain and cancel their subscriptions.
35 Likes
Immediately locked threads too. gonna constantly repost my question.
Why would anyone want to intentionally play with significantly bad ping?
Why wasn’t this made known before it was implemented?
12 Likes
Please, Blizzard… Don’t do this.
You raise the price of Australian Sub supposedly for our oceanic servers, then you go and merge us with U.S Battlegroup.
There are currently 4 oceanic realms active on Classic at the moment. Those 4 are MORE than enough to see:
24 Likes
Another nice new feature we got from Activi$ion Blizz. The road to TBC Classic just keeps getting better and better.
10 Likes
lol just because you play alliance. quit saying there’s lag when there isn’t. the only other fix is to allow faction vs faction.
Even for my cold, Blizzard shilling (according to others) heart, this change sounds completely unwarranted and makes zero sense. Blizzard why?
11 Likes
You’re kidding, right?
The moment you merge with a U.S player from Oce means your ping skyrockets to 300-400.
That is lag, and a huge disadvantage for Oce players.
17 Likes
A change like this should be done reactively, not proactively. Why not at least let the arena season play out and see what happens? Please revert this ASAP.
31 Likes
US WEST
C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping 137.221.105.2
Pinging 137.221.105.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 137.221.105.2: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=236
Reply from 137.221.105.2: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=236
Reply from 137.221.105.2: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=236
Reply from 137.221.105.2: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=236
Ping statistics for 137.221.105.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 282ms, Maximum = 282ms, Average = 282ms
US CENTRAL
C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping 24.105.62.129
Pinging 24.105.62.129 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 24.105.62.129: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=236
Reply from 24.105.62.129: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=236
Reply from 24.105.62.129: bytes=32 time=283ms TTL=236
Reply from 24.105.62.129: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=236
Ping statistics for 24.105.62.129:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 282ms, Maximum = 283ms, Average = 282ms
Both IP’s taken from
32 Likes
This seems like a pretty stupid move if you ask me.
23 Likes
Sub cancelled, pvp is unplayable with such high latency
In future can you forewarn us that this is going to happen, completely wasted a week grinding honour for the launch.
TBC classic launch has been a complete joke
41 Likes
So I’m aussie (sydney) and I intentionally play on US realms for the larger populations. My 190 ms isn’t even noticeable. Didn’t chanimal get rank 1 with 200 ms from new zealand?
And honestly the Americans I fight in BGs are more competitive and skilled than the oceanic players I’ve played against. It’s like night and day. Small populations become stagnant.
8 Likes
I’ve literally heard chanimal and other streamers saying the Beta tournement was a joke, because they had to play with the MS and were completely handicapped.
14 Likes
plz add faction transfer Horde>>AA only so the queue is better and more $$$ to U Blizz. Now many people from Oceanic will afk
Yeah, not sure how they think the lag is cool…
8 Likes
I mean this is as definitive as it gets, ez ping logs. I sure love playing on an east coast server and soemhow having 300+MS in BGs.
Blizzard, please hire some network techs.
4 Likes
I play from Canada and usually have 120ms on most days, it’s hardly noticeable so it makes me wonder if something else is causing the latency beyond the US/OCE BG merger
2 Likes
We got into a match where oceanic was a leader last night in our bg and it made the lag bad for us too. Please do not do this blizzard.
9 Likes
Nobody wants this. Competitive arena will be DOA for OCE players otherwise.
25 Likes
Every person I know thinks this is a bad idea and honestly depending on how laggy it is in arena I might just outright stop playing, it’s literally one of the reasons I played classic for the oce only pvp that wasn’t 300ms.
Please reconsider this terrible change.
Edit: make note that most of the people supporting the change are doing it as a way to talk down to oce players for ‘wanting easy glad’ I quit the other MMO I played because of pvp lag being frustrating, it had plenty fast queues but no OCE servers, if you opt for this you’ll end up the same with a dead oce-pvp community.
20 Likes