New WoW servers targets Aussie gamers

By on 10 November 2005

Australian World of Warcraft players rejoice! Blizzard has just opened two new servers targeted specifically at local WoW fans.

Blizzard has added six new servers globally for WoW to cater for the game's strong growth. Two of the new servers are being designated as Oceania preferred to cater for Australian, New Zealand and Singaporean players. The two servers are set to GMT +11 time, a boon for local players who previously had difficulty attending time-sensitive world events due to time zone differences. The new sites, however, are still US hosted.

One of the Oceania servers, Frostmourne, is designated as PvP, while the other, Khaz'goroth, is designated as normal. In a statement, Blizzard said that because of the need to conduct weekly maintenance simultaneously for all realms in an individual region, the Oceania-preferred realms will have scheduled downtime at the same time as all other North America-based realms.

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Topics: game, warcraft, local, blizzard, servers, oceania, pvp, of, world, wow

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Vash commented on 02/12/2009 00:26

Wowsuxlag quit blaming all your crap on the US. What a loser. My 3 yr old doesnt whine as much as you
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Trimak commented on 23/09/2009 17:41

The reason the servers are still Us based is because...

"bandwidth in Australia is extremely expensive. I can get a server with over 1terabyte of data in the US per month for roughly $120AU, for the exact same in AU i would be looking at tens of thousands of dollars."

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http://forums.gamespace.net.au/australia_new_zealand_wow_server-t7066.html?t=7066
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Smashdaddy commented on 08/05/2009 14:09

Be thankfull that the servers are at least oceania prefered. The ping may not be superb but at least we will be playing within a time frame that suits us.
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wowsuxlag commented on 06/06/2008 19:47

Dude wtf!! the servers are not even located in oceania. lol what a poor attempt by Blizzard.

Americans are all the same, they only care about themselves.
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randomizer commented on 10/12/2006 03:27

lame, the servers are still in the US ~_~", maybe we cant accomodate it or somthing
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