That’s good to hear, and also for reference, Arugal #3 world wide for population has a 52% Horde - 48% Alliance ratio.
We’re not that unbalanced on the larger servers.
But good to hear you don’t want us, because we also don’t want you - this is mutual! Blizzard, stop trying to force us into relationships we don’t need. 
Team numbers would prolly remain the same; p sure a large number of OCE players waiting for arenas are just gonna drop the game because of this.
People that are completely fine with 200ms obviously don’t care enough about reaction time, movement, control, peeling etc. You know, the things that separate the okay players from the good players. Low latency helps with all of that and more.
If latency doesn’t matter in arena, why do people purchase tunneling services?
Checkmate Laggers
Yeah I agree Tommie, I also wonder if it was only going to get worse come live TBC classic!
make the muricans play on oce servers then they will see
But I will say, I think it’s one thing to do this for BGs. It’s another to do it to arena, I suspect the latter may be unnecessary.
Agreed.
In theory, it’s impossible to argue the positives of 150-200 ping verses 20-70 ping on average for people.
Delay is delay, who wants more delay?
I doubt it. If team numbers would prolly remain the same, then that just goes to show that OCE servers are severely underpopulated.
Who says we wont play on OCE servers? Blizzard makes us do it in sc2. This change is terrible and unwanted.
Arugal has third highest population world-wide alone.
Three servers currently have official population increase caps, Arugal is one of them.
Both Arugal & Yojamba (2/3) of the Ocenaic realms that are PvP have Layers to deal with the masses currently.
We have 1 PvP realm that shouldn’t have even been opened, it’s there as a meme at this point and nobody plays on it.
Our 4th realm is a Pve Realm, and I believe most Remulous people are pretty happy with their population as well.
It’s also important to take into consideration, there was no public conversation around this in the Oceanic community prior to this change, nobody was complaining - just an out of the blue change… Literally.
context is important… this is a response to him saying “Team numbers would prolly remain the same”
so everyone gets to enjoy their no batched pvp except for OCE?
The top 1% OCE will still be in the top 1% US+OCE, it will just be way more frustrating along the way.
Two rogues trying to sap each other? US rogue gets the sap.
Mage goes to counterspell a warlock’s Fel Domination? you have 0.25seconds to get it because you lose the other 0.25seconds to latency.
Fake casting inside a BG feels like a joke as of today
The top ranked arena players will more than likely be those with the best connections and not necessarily the most skilled
I have to ask
Who’s cooked PR spin is this?
Because this is a very cooked PR spin. I know you’re the messenger but man, do you need a pay rise for the stuff they make you post.
Normal human reaction times are 0.25s. Back in retail TBC days, we had to literally PREDICT the feldom kicks.
Please reverse this change, no one on OCE wants or needs this at all.
This will hurt ANY competitive chance against local NA players.
We were fine before, undo now.
I’m not trying to be disrespectful or cast you as an outsider here on this topic of conversation, but there is a huge history of Blizzard screwing Oceania since day 1 of Name Reservation Day for the Oceanic Community.
To put it in perspective, they gave us only 1 single realm on Launch Day which caused queues of up to 15,000-20,000 on Day 1 of Classic Launch.
Blizzard panic’d, and then created 3 more servers out of nowhere.
Basically in short:
Day 1 of Classic - Blizzard underestimated our population and only gave us 1 realm.
Day 1, 1 Hour into Classic - Blizzard overestimated our population and gave us too many PvP realms
Now we have Felstriker with less than 100 people on both factions, this server needs to be deleted.
Arugal, Yojamba, and Remulos have worked out our population issues on our own - since Blizzard caused us so much chaos within the first 24 hours of Classic.
I won’t even go into the history of Arugal Layer Dramas with Blizzard, but now to top it off - NA ping times for Arena?? No thankssss
Worth noting as well Oceania has a realm with the third highest population in the world in the Classic / BC community. Whoever thought our community is dead, is a fool.
Edit: This is personal, Oceania is sick of Blizzard screwing us around.
Oh man, I remember years ago how terrible this was, as my server used to be popular with aussies before they had their own servers. Man it was bad. This is a shockingly backward decision.
We would rather quit the game than playing with 250ms.
We support your efforts Elron, your sacrifice is not forgotten.