I played multiple Alliance characters shortly after my subscription began in mid September of this year. At the time of choosing my realm for Alliance named Ashkandi it was listed as a US Realm. Some weeks later Blizzard designated realms as US East and US West.
As I live in California I’m concerned that playing with characters on a US East coast realm will cause my performance to suffer for all content.
It would be nice if I was offered a free transfer option at some point.
Well, all the realms and the time zones were listed here in the forums for some time after launch. There was a sticky at the top of these forums.
I agree the change they did in the game should have been done sooner and it may have caused some to end up on realms on the opposite side of the country. But to be fair, a quick google search would have brought up all the realms and if they were west or east coast.
What ms latency do you get?
Personally I picked the US east server Mankrik because I live in Western Canada and our ping to Chicago is better than our ping to L.A.
It’s not that L.A. is unplayable, for me it’s the difference between 50ms and 80ms.
That said they did list which realms were East Coast and which were West Coast before launch.
Wow… I had no Idea I needed to google for more information on what Blizzard was presenting to me at the time of realm choice. This is an issue for me because I play only on wifi. Not the end of the world… I did have fun leveling all those characters and at least now I know.
Or make a toon and check the realm time? I mean it’s going on 3 months since launch. You just found out your realms time zone?
Also. It’s always been like that. I was glad to see the change and I think they should have done it to live a long time ago. I don’t even know if they have changed it on live but it was a welcome change imo.
It was meant to help the population find a good fit. Guess some missed the mark.
They had realm time zones listed when the realms were announced.
This is the reason why Blizzard changed it in the client.
They were already designated that way on the forums, but not everyone reads the forums. So now new players won’t find themselves in the situation that you did, where you didn’t know what time zone your server was.
East coast servers are in Chicago.