I think merging the battle groups for bgs is fine. But for arena is terrible. Even if it has a priority queue to oce first (which seems to be bugged atm)
Also if they intend to go down this path even with all the backlash from the community then they need to make sure we only get US west servers and never US east
C:\Users\roffo>ping 137.221.105.2
Pinging 137.221.105.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 137.221.105.2: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=242
Reply from 137.221.105.2: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=242
not for me
this is perfectly playable, haven’t had any lag this morning and games are popping like mad
I don’t believe you. A east coast player would have from 7-20ms to 320-420ms, a West coaster would have jumped to 600-800ms and a kiwi would have gone from 50-350+.
Unless you’ve gotten lucky and only had full teams from OCE in all 10 games which means you should go buy a lottery ticket.
Most of australian internet is considered third world until you get a full NBN roll out. I get it, edgy undead rogue trolling for the sake of trolling though. Good job making me bite.
Queues are 10 mins shorter, not exactly “popping like mad”.
Just want to point out its on EAST coast servers.
back in real TBC oceanic played on WEST coast servers (160-180 ms)
Yet now its on East so we play on 250+ ms???
It’s becoming incredibly difficult to parody Blizzard’s ineptitude. Think of the dumbest possible thing you can imagine and they’ll surpass it with ease.
There are like 4 oceanic servers. 34 NA servers. Players will jump from NA servers to Oceanic servers just to dodge the best players for R1 titles pings be damned if they are only competing against Oceanic players. But I want to point out, in original TBC I had players on my realm, that I played with and fought against that were from Australia and had R1 titles and Glad titles. And that was back then.
Maybe server hosting is cheaper on the east coast?
This is one of the most braindead changed you’ve done.
Oceanic BGs are almost unplayable as a melee now.
…and just like that Oceanic server communities have become food for the low latency PVPers to help them get high arena ranks lol
It is actually. east coast has the cheapest clusters hosting for AWS anyway 
Activision must be on food stamps
You are comparing pings from 2007 to pings in 2021. I am assuming things will have improved.
The base game still runs off the OCE servers hosted in Sydney as does every other blizzard and activision game,
Cut the racism please
I’m NZ, and you saw my ping time
The queues are shorter for all 3 bgs so by the time you’re done with one, another pops in a couple minutes
hes in NZ they actually have an internet
So you ruined the majority of the Oceanic player bases gameplay just so a handful of them have a chance at some rewards?
There has to be a better solution.
???
Lol why did you think this was even remotely a good idea less than a week off from launch when people had:
Just to make PVP miserable for anyone actually wanting to spend most of their time in Arena (which they won’t be anymore). I got 200-230ms to the beta and that’s 100% unplayable for Rogue, especially now that there’s no batching.
The fluctuation in ping is going to be by far the worst thing to come out of this change. There’s nothing more jarring than playing one game on 5ms then the next on 200ms.
If Horde BG queues are the only reason why you made this change then keep BGs merged but leave Arena alone. Alliance get insta-BG queues, Arena queue times were always going to be fine because they’re cross-faction. What’s the point in even having OCE servers if you’re just going to make this change without even consulting the community?
So your ping doubled.
How is this any different to how it was yesterday?
Fully aware as I use the same internet.
You are already on a us server so wtf are you on about?
And in retail you should hear the v46s of the Americans who are forced to play with oce ping when the cross server thing puts them in with oce players ( pve or pvp )
Listen to this man for the love of whatever deity you prefer.