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TOR Launching In Australia & New Zealand Spring 2012 – Local Data Center
Listen! Do you hear that? It’s the sounds of thousands of Oceanic players rejoicing to the appearance of yellow text!
Senior Community Manager Stephen Reid just posted an update indicating that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be available to Oceania this coming spring:
We can confirm that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be launching in Australia and New Zealand in the spring of 2012.
Right now we are targeting March 1st, but that could change as our number one priority is making sure that customers have a great service to play on.
For those of you who may have already imported the game, we will be investigating solutions to allow you to continue to play on a local server once they come online in March.
Perhaps most interesting is the comment about the ability to continue to play on a “local server” once they come online, indicating there will indeed be a regional data center serving Oceania and that players may not have to lose all of their progress to that point!
Stay tuned for more on this breaking story!
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As an aussie that is already playing and has imported the game. I am playing on “The harbinger” server which seems to be one of the fullest servers and i dont experince much lag at all, i also pvp alot and dont have any issues holding my own. so not to sure what all the fuss is over server stability and “Red Zones” ect.
True, and Australians have learnt to be patient when it comes to gaming with 300ms latency after playing WoW for years. However in WoW, latency 300ms can be alot, also in raid parties and large group activities data transfer rates can cause disconnects (depending on the connection and service provider).
When an ability has a global cooldown of say 1.5 seconds… 300ms is 1/5th of a cast time, over time that adds up, effects reaction, heals and dps.
But having a local server, thats a big deal… with Australia going Fibre to Home connection speeds will drop from 300ms to 20ms.
This could effectively kill WoW in Australia and NZ, especially when they start advertising locally (which WoW doesnt)
bring it on…of course…will I want to transfer my toons? Maybe a re-roll…or even changing of sides?
Regardless, this is great news…apart from the fact that its yet another reason for Kiwi’s to head to Aussie to get our daily dose of fibre!