World Of Warcraft online petition to get a server based in Australia
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Greetings to all World of Warcraft Players who live and play in the Oceania region. Welcome to our online petition.
Let us introduce ourselves. We are a group of players who have undertaken a project to get a World of Warcraft server based in Australia. This project is called WoW Australia.
As you know all servers available to players in the Oceania region are based in the USA. Most of you have experienced in one form or another most of the disadvantages that we have due to playing on a server on the other side of the world. Just to name a few:
High latency - Most Oceania players have ping times of 250ms - 600ms. Precision playing is not possible or is extremely hard. While PvP the latency issue does often mean that melee classes are unable to hit the opposing moving player because you have to be within a certain range and in a front arc to swing at someone. Half a second of movement does make it difficult to guess where they are.
Availability of GM's - There seems to be a problem of response times by GM's during AU peek times. It could be that there is an adequate number of GM's online at that time; just they are busy dealing with other issues to get back to us. My experience of talking to GM's on US player dominated servers, during US peek times is a more professional and prompt one.
Downtime - currently server maintenance and restarts for patch updates seem to be done during Oceania evening times. I understand that this is the quietest time for USA players however this is during peek time in Oceania.
Having local servers would greatly improve your World of Warcraft experience.
The team at WoW Australia have contacted Blizzard and they have answered the above questions explaining that there is no demand to have a server based in Australia. They said that if demand changes they would consider it. On this point WoW Australia has organised an online petition believing that if we can get enough support they will get a server setup in Australia.
Please submit your support.
Let us introduce ourselves. We are a group of players who have undertaken a project to get a World of Warcraft server based in Australia. This project is called WoW Australia.
As you know all servers available to players in the Oceania region are based in the USA. Most of you have experienced in one form or another most of the disadvantages that we have due to playing on a server on the other side of the world. Just to name a few:
High latency - Most Oceania players have ping times of 250ms - 600ms. Precision playing is not possible or is extremely hard. While PvP the latency issue does often mean that melee classes are unable to hit the opposing moving player because you have to be within a certain range and in a front arc to swing at someone. Half a second of movement does make it difficult to guess where they are.
Availability of GM's - There seems to be a problem of response times by GM's during AU peek times. It could be that there is an adequate number of GM's online at that time; just they are busy dealing with other issues to get back to us. My experience of talking to GM's on US player dominated servers, during US peek times is a more professional and prompt one.
Downtime - currently server maintenance and restarts for patch updates seem to be done during Oceania evening times. I understand that this is the quietest time for USA players however this is during peek time in Oceania.
Having local servers would greatly improve your World of Warcraft experience.
The team at WoW Australia have contacted Blizzard and they have answered the above questions explaining that there is no demand to have a server based in Australia. They said that if demand changes they would consider it. On this point WoW Australia has organised an online petition believing that if we can get enough support they will get a server setup in Australia.
Please submit your support.
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