That’s the word, according to Blizzard’s Rob Pardo. They’re “looking into” it, although there is nothing to announce right now.
IGN AU caught up with Pardo over at Blizzcon and pressed him on the topic of local servers for Australian StarCraft II players.
“We are looking into it. There’s been lots of discussion going on, nothing to announce right now, but I know that – especially with the Australian audience growing the way it is – that it’s something we’re seriously going to consider.”
The previously announced lack of LAN play with StarCraft II means that all online games need a direct connection to Battle.net, a situation that could potentially result in unpalatable lag unless local servers are in place.
Check out the IGN article for more thoughts on the issue, both from Pardo and the Aussie gamers attending Blizzcon.
Servers Please! [IGN AU]
chuloopa
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2:25 PMin my experience, ‘looking into it’ generally means ‘we’d like you to think we’ll do it, but it’s just not going to happen’
Kasterix
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2:35 PMOr they’ll be “Alright, done.”
And it’ll be oceanic servers not actually hosted anywhere near here.
hansel
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:28 PMCorrect, he was asked on the spot and thats a generic, neutral response which translates to “No”
Adam Steel
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2:31 PMWith no LAN there damn well better be, but considering there are no Australian hosted WoW servers, I’m going to call this one as a no.
Sam Lawrence
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2:37 PMSpeaking of Dedicated servers any news on the 360 version of BF:1943′s servers?
Allen
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:03 PMMy guess is that if they’re going to consider physical Starcraft II oceanic servers, it won’t be a stretch to also offer it for WoW also — having two games on offer would make the capital commitment easier to justify.
warcroft
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:20 PMFantastic!
We can put these along side the BF1943 servers.
Dunnowhathuh
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 5:10 PMAh yes because we all know game developers love Australia….
V
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 9:13 AMConsidering their stance on wow for the last 5 years, looking into it definitely means no, just a way to appease the masses.
Dylan Sale
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 1:03 AMI have a strong feeling that Starcraft 2 will be peer to peer like pretty much every other RTS game made (including all of Blizzard’s other ones). With this in mind, I dont really see what “Australian Servers” would be… authentication servers? We can authenticate to America fine, lag isnt an issue.
Unless I’m missing something?