That’s not how things work, my friend.
This is the road the hell, retail hell. De-merge oceanic from NA. All this will do is killing the feeling of community that is the CORNER STONE of the classic experience.
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Let’s unpack this nonsense.
- Better PvP queue times for players on Oceanic realms. - With an absolutely awful experience for OCE players once they actually get in due to high ping. Why would we even bother with battlegrounds if they won’t be fun?
- Better Arena matchmaking for Oceanic players. - Again, with an even worse experience than in the BGs. Any time OCE gets matched against US the US team has a massive advantage. How is that better matchmaking? Are you serious?
- A much higher likelihood of Oceanic players being able to meaningfully compete for end-of-season rewards. This is a fanciful claim. In fact, higher ping for OCE players in arena means you’ve actually made it far more difficult for them to “meaningfully compete”. Rethink this.
Does Blizzard even consider the potential impact of their decisions before they make them? This is one of the worst decisions I have seen, made with no community input (and I’ve been here since you started OCE off with only one PvP server).
It is beyond belief that we have to create massive outcry for the OCE region every time you stuff these simple and straightforward things up.
Revert it or you’ll lose bulk OCE subs and ruin the PvP experience in the region. It’s that simple.
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I have been in multiple other BG’s this morning WITH the higher world ping. I ASSURE you my gameplay is entirely accurate to the ping displayed.
It still shows your connection speed to your server, in this case Arugal.
It doesnt update to show the BG speeds
Rational for the change: Allow for more OCE gladiators
Effect of the change: Fewer OCE gladiators due to high latency
Best solution: OCE gets their own PVP Award pool, separate of the US realms, keeps OCE Arena only. BGs, if queue times bad for OCE revisit the merge. If queue times fine, keep as it was.
Either way, the change was stupid, obviously not vetted by people that actually play the game. Had to have been some high ranking retard inside blizzard who said this was the only way. Blizzard keeps making decisions that the community hates.
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250 ping, melee will have no chance. My sub is finished
Increase Oceanic sub prices to “maintain the service”
remove Oceanic battle group… o…ok?
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MY GAMEPLAY IS REFLECTIVE OF MY PING
Jesus people, read my comments.
It’s possible you got an OCE bg host while playing with a bunch of people from NA, same thing happened to me where there was only 5 OCE in the bg but it was hosted here still for some reason. Their system sucks.
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im sure it is crimson felt hat boy
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I asked in the BG if the US players had a high ping and they stated they didnt.
That’s literally impossible. Theres two categories of latency, home and world. Your UI is just showing home latency
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There’s an idea, have everyone connect to Oceanic servers by default.
I’m sure our NA friends would be fine with that change too.
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Oh, I understand. You were on a magical server, from fantasy land, where every region has the same ping.
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Imagine the uproar if they actually did this.
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Where he plays from his gum drop house on lollipop lane!
Well they probably just checked their ping by looking at the number, not pressing abilities. if you think they even know what’s going on or care you’re likely wrong.
No, change it back!
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Definitely wasn’t prepared for this…
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