For the most part, I encountered Australians on various SEA-based servers. Chances are, if Indonesia will have an English-translated client many players from Australia will gather there. Then again, international server pretty much equals big playerbase, so it’s a choice between that or less lag.
I would rather have a SEA server
I would rather have an international server first, within this century if possible.
You guys know? when you’re asking for an Australian server, what you are actually asking for is one guy with some secondhand system hosting the game from whatever random rented out space in Strathfield, with the game being looked after by him and a rotating staff of semi-unempolyed internet cafe asians… Right?
So you’re basically talking about Oceanic Ragnarok Online and how fail of a server that was.
Yer… But it’s a legit example. I mean thats what we got after all! Right?
My god, the GM’s on that server were pathetic… I remember them giving one of my mates whatever he wanted just becuase they knew each other in real life… terrible server.
Does Australia get bad ping from SEA servers?
That sucks. It seems like a cool place otherwise, though. >:
it’s a funny old place au…
I wouldn’t be surprised if any SEA server would be hosted from au so ping wouldn’t be the issue. But yes, traditionally au has had bad internet infrastructure for which we pay top dollar to use.
I’m on iiNet Nbn and it still sucks…
We have more then enough population if you include the phillipines, korea, china, new zealand and all the other asian countries. It also gives us pretty good latency. Looking at you ffxiv with your sea servers.
The only problem is there needs to a simple but effective translate function. Cant be too hard final fantasy 11 has been using one for over 10 years and it works pretty good.
@conscript080
None of those you listed other than NZ should be counted into the OCE gaming population.
That’s just being selfish…
(also odd since all of those will get better latency with the KR/PH servers…)
I live among those regions you mentioned.
In fact I probably get the second best latency to Australian servers round these parts.
I wouldn’t play on OCE unless I had no better choice.
(and those include NA East, West, KR, JP, RU, CN and my own area)
I dont want the server in Australia dear god the game would be dead in 6 months before of our broken and greedy telecommunications companies.
All i want is a game with 100 latency or less. Not 220 to 180 with NA servers.
I dont understand how anyone would like to play a game where its unfair or the other closer players have an unfair advantage. 100ms or less is close enough to human reaction times.
Singapore would be the best choice in hosting. Its up there on the top ranking connection speeds, Might not be the cheapest for them to host though which will all come down if its profitable for them.
i for one would love this game a whole lot more if there were dedicated Oceanic Servers to play on
all for Singapore or anywhere that is cheap really. Need oceanic server and a semi decent PR so the game is advertised.
The Oceanic playerbase in this game would be large enough, you don’t need a lot of people to make the server feel alive. And the advantage of lower ping is hugely important, not just for PvP but also makes a significant difference on auto attack focused builds and ability queueing. And with how they host their servers with Amazon it should be easy enough to get servers in a data centre in Australia.
Telsiai has been designated as SEA. It would be logical to assume this server would be placed in Singapore as it is the most optimal location for an Oceanic server.
I would love to see an Australian ToS server hosted in Sydney or Melbourne for PvE that was linked to SEA for Dungeons and PvP.