OCEANIC Realms for WoW Classic

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If there's enough to support it I would think so, but I don't know if there would be.
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11/08/2018 07:27 PMPosted by Espur
If there's enough to support it I would think so, but I don't know if there would be.


Are you actually being serious? You obviously don't know how many people here play and will be playing. Trust me there will be MORE than enough to fill at LEAST 1-2 servers to max capacity.

+1, absolutely necessary.

Will not play if they decide to alienate us again.

Although, if I recall correctly, Blizzard was actually all for realms being hosted in Australia even during Vanilla, but Telstra were making it difficult for it to be allowed to happen. I don't recall the details, does anyone remember if that is true and why?
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Well given -

* The current classic client is built on top of a modern wow client
* The classic servers are in the Las Vegas data center along with a few live realms
* The Australia data center exists
* The Oz data center also hosts D3 , Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft 2 on top of hosting Australian wow servers
* At the start of Classic there would be no character data to transfer over

I would expect it to be very very easy for them to start up an Australian Classic Server based on australian soil.
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11/08/2018 09:46 PMPosted by Bluspacecow
Well given -

* The current classic client is built on top of a modern wow client
* The classic servers are in the Las Vegas data center along with a few live realms
* The Australia data center exists
* The Oz data center also hosts D3 , Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft 2 on top of hosting Australian wow servers
* At the start of Classic there would be no character data to transfer over

I would expect it to be very very easy for them to start up an Australian Classic Server based on australian soil.


Thanks for the response! This really brings my hopes up for Oceanic realms.
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Having to run 10-30 ft(in ratio to 200-450ping) in front of the druid FC in order to hamstring. I felt like Goku wearing training weights
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11/09/2018 03:39 AMPosted by Teedo
Having to run 10-30 ft(in ratio to 200-450ping) in front of the druid FC in order to hamstring. I felt like Goku wearing training weights

It made us faster, better, stronger
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They said there would be 4 servers for each region.
-PvE
-PvP
-RPPvE
-RPPvP
US, EU, KOR, CN.

They may throw a single PvE server to OCE. Do not expect RP servers.
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11/09/2018 04:04 AMPosted by Apropos
They said there would be 4 servers for each region.
-PvE
-PvP
-RPPvE
-RPPvP
US, EU, KOR, CN.

They may throw a single PvE server to OCE. Do not expect RP servers.


Ummmmmm.... no they didnā€™t.

This was someone rumourmongering....

Please post facts
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Really hope there is aus servers!
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Also interested in Oceanic realms for classic.
My partner and I will definitely be playing.
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I suspect there will be one PvP, one PvE and MAYBE an RP server, although I have doubts about if there are enough players to support an RP server in OCE.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love one but I feel that people overestimate the number of Oce players who will roll onto Classic and stick with it long term. Most people who jump on to a Classic server will end up being tourists and leave around the level 10-20 mark. I'd spitball that less than a quarter of people who join Classic will make it to 60, and even then I feel thats being generous.

I'm not happy about this, but I feel its important to plan for the worse rather than kid ourselves.
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I agree with the MVP. I can not really see a reason they wouldn't have an OCE server group for Classic. Only way they wouldn't is if they don't think there's enough demand.
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Blizzard doesn't care about Oceanic.
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11/08/2018 09:46 PMPosted by Bluspacecow
Well given -

* The current classic client is built on top of a modern wow client
* The classic servers are in the Las Vegas data center along with a few live realms
* The Australia data center exists
* The Oz data center also hosts D3 , Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft 2 on top of hosting Australian wow servers
* At the start of Classic there would be no character data to transfer over

I would expect it to be very very easy for them to start up an Australian Classic Server based on australian soil.


While i agree the tech is there.We still need to keep the communities large enough after the launch. So basically if they were going to make 4 servers per region. OCE will come under the NA banner again, and a stable and full community after the launch we might only have 1 server. NOW, this is where its tricky, do they make the 1 server PVE or PVP???
Do they make 2 servers at launch, and have one of each. then after the excitement dies down they merge the smaller pop realm into the other, forcing players to play the typeset that they didn't sign up for? or do they just leave it with 2 realms for OCE and deal with both realms having lacking communities?

If push comes to shove i hope they make the pvp server the OCE one as it would at least 3 fold be of better benefit to the pvp'ers than the pve'ers.

Lets be honest right now. Frostmourne for Alliance and Barthalis for Horde.

You think perhaps in classic we might still be able to support the 2 different types? PVP and PVE? Then how do you think they might handle battlerealms? Still put us with the NA's and swap between the 2 servers (AUS and US)
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11/09/2018 10:53 PMPosted by Chestmayo


You think perhaps in classic we might still be able to support the 2 different types? PVP and PVE? Then how do you think they might handle battlerealms? Still put us with the NA's and swap between the 2 servers (AUS and US)


I don't think anyone knows at this point, nor will they be able to tell in advance.

The only real thing they can do is poll a large number of people and if that poll says 15% of people want to play Classic long term then they can plan accordingly. That being said, someone who say they will play won't end up doing so...and some people who just want to check it out end up getting hooked and staying. How do you plan for such erratic results?

What we've seen is that generally Blizz tends to have plenty of servers, then merge them later on. I think they see that as preferable to having too few and people stuck in queues.
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Hopefully there is enough people playing in Oce to cover BG queues! yikes

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and for more than 2 hours a night lol

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Iā€™d like local servers but Iā€™d be a little worried the server wouldnā€™t have enough new players to keep it going.

If it turns out we donā€™t, itā€™d not be a fun server to be on, even with the low ping.

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Hopefully our friends down under will have a home this go around.

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I have that worry also, i feel as if we will kick off with a major pop that gradually just keeps on dying