Oceanic WoW Classic Realms

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Too expensive n not cost worthy to setup the server in singapore i believed haha…

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SingTel has a direct route to Sydney from Singapore, so Oceanic servers should be a decent latency.

But the bigger issue is that they have an existing Data Center in Sydney, so this is an easy task for provisioning. Adding a new Data Center in Singapore would be something to ask for in Retail first.

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Fantastic :slight_smile: thanks blizzard. I love you xoxo.

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they confirmed melee leeway, and 400 ms spell batching, you can play with 200MS ping almost uneffected.

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“Planned it all along!”

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And so, July the 4th shall always be remembered as the day OCE received Independence from the oppression of 200ms ping.

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There’s going to be lots of happy people when we all wake up in a couple of hours. Great news.

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I read this in the spech voice from that movie “Independence Day”

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Lol, I read it in the medieval narrator voice. Also… July 3rd.

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July 4th here in New Zealand :wink:

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Fine. Posted at 4am in the worlds earliest timezone.

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Oh damn, so I won’t be having that authentic Vanilla experience of 200-300 ms which made things just a tad more challenging?

Just kidding, this is fantastic.

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Sure you can. Just do what we did in 2004, and sign up to a US-West server.

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@Kaivax - Can you shed any light on confirmations that you planned all along to have Brazillian Portugese and/or Spanish designated realms for Latin America and Brazil for Classic?

And if so… RP-PVP too!

(Even if its to say “We haven’t decided yet”)

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The game servers will be hosted in Australia? Excellent! Can I suggest some server names, please?

Garrosh can be renamed to Gazza;
Earthen Ring to Eartho;
Illidan is now Illiry-do; and
Bruce.

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Thank you, we appreciate it!! :slight_smile:

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What about the day/night cycle?
Will our servers be running on Australian time zone cycles, like we had during vanilla through to WoD? Or will they be like retail where nighttime in-game begins at 11am for us, and the sun rises at 11pm?
It’s not very immersive having servers with a day/night cycle not matching our own. If we get our own servers for classic, then I’m worried they will end up like retail back when we got our own servers in 2014. Because we lost our matching timezone day/night cycle in the process, and have been on the USA cycle ever since.
I would really love clarification on this topic, I don’t want to see Elwynn Forest and the Barrens only at night time. I want to experience these beautiful, nostalgic zones and many others during the day.

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Hmm what about Taiwan servers?

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If i recall, we lost our day night cycle because american players were abusing the crossrealm sharding to kill rare spawns that only spawn at night for e.g, and then shardhop into an oceanic shard to get a second night time beginning, within the same 24 hrs.

Now we wont have crossrealm…so they better give us our day night cycle back!!!

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Great news