Agreed remerge with the US please
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We were literally merged with US East & US West Battlegroups on the week upcoming to the launch of the Burning Crusade, did you not know this? Trust me, you donât want to be merged with US East⌠Makes no sense, physically too much distance.
Again, maybe itâs a Titan thing but youâve failed to read my comment properly. Why are you disagreeing here? I just provided your initial comment with support by suggesting that if the merger does happen that it needs to be strictly done with US West and not US East.
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I understand why for the group finder they added in wrath theyâd prefer Australians to group with Americans as they both speak English but for Arenas it seems the best solution would be to merge with Asia. You donât need to coordinate with the opposing team and the Asian datacenters would be much closer giving you far less lag.
Obviously would be an issue if they merged BGs but since this complaint is just about arenas this would be a good compromise.
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Haha, forum account created â8 minutes agoâ, OP used his second account to post on forums to support himself.
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i mean it doesnt affect me either way, i just thought i should say what seemed to be a ton of outrage from the OCE community last time it was merged.
Did you just lump all of us OCE folk as Australians? Iâm from a real country thank you very much, New Zealand specifically - a much greater land.
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In reality, the minority are wanting the remerger, the majority advocated against it.
Thereâs literally a small portion of people in OCE that care about 5âs, and I donât see Blizzard revolting against the vast majority of people whom complained last time about the merger to accommodate for the small minority of people queuing for 5âs.
Thatâs Democracy for ya
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Out of curiosity do you arena or pvp much?
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My post didnât only talk about 5v5, itâs all arenas. We canât queue 2v2 until like 6-10pm unless we want to sit really really long queues into the only other team in the entire region that is queueing up.
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ya last time was an ocean of mad, this time its a couple people
Iâm literally giving you arguments based on ping distance, servers that are best to connect to, and youâre sitting here replying with âdo you do arenaâ - please understand my argument properly Klinda.
To clarify it in a different mannerism, I am willing to support your little minority cause here, providing that US East is not on the discussion board.
OCE should never queue with US East.
US West is a different story, it is a little more tolerable than US East.
The point is exactly that though, there was an ocean of people claiming that theyâd be queueing arena and dreamed of australian only matches, now weâre left with noone to fight against, good players will eventually quit or go to US servers and it will only get worse.
US-east queues are an issue for sure, but I donât see why that should be a concern for blizzard as they already donât give aussies us east arenas on retail. I understand that happened during the initial merge in bgs occasionally but that should be something they fix rather than having arena be unplayable.
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All I did was ask you a question out of curiosity like I said. Which you chose not to answer.
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Well specify then, are you wanting OCE to be merged with US East & West, or strictly only US West?
Because many people in OCE have a hard time with US East servers, and that was ultimately the problem the first time around
I remember. I played them. There were some laggy games but it wasnât âmy ping is so high my spells arent responsiveâ lag, it was âthe server feels unstableâ lag that would even just happen on Arugal from time to time. Most of the US BGâs I got I barely noticed.
I completely disagree with your initial stance that re-merging isnât needed on the basis that dealing with lag is unpleasant. I appreciate that you can accept merging with USW would be a good thing but if thereâs no partial solution, a complete merge is infinitely better for the long term Oceanic pvp scene.
I donât get why leaving BGâs separated and Arenas merging with Asia wouldnât be the best option. More people to compete against, language doesnât matter for arenas, and is much closer than US West for ping
This specific comment here needs to be taken out of the conversation when it comes to talking about ping, because itâs ultimately subjectable to where you live in comparison to the other OCE people.
For me, US West was tolerable (noticed the lag but it was still tolerable to a degree), but the moment I got into US East matches, the melee v melee fights in BGâs was very very noticeable.
Whilst Asia is technically physically closer geographically, the actual underwater internet cables are not, Asia Ping is roughly the same as US East for us (even though Asia is closer physically).
Edit: For New Zealand, Iâm unsure what the average Australian player gets with Asia ping
Agreed, trying to minimize how much ping affects you personally is not a good argument.
The problem here is the availability of arena queues.
Arena is simply to hard to queue outside of some specific peak hours, hell even during peak hours it can be hard to have any quality games.
Fair enough, I havenât queued 3s or 5s in TBC yet, on average how often would you guys say you encounter the same team? Or teams that are similar rating?
Might need to kick off some examples of what your guys experiences are so far with it, for me Iâm completely ignorant on it - and only commenting based from a ping perspective