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Oceanic Warhammer Online Beta Has Landed
Posted by Logan Booker at 12:30 PM on August 11, 2008
A release date and the opening of the Oceanic beta? Surely that's enough great news, right? Well, it would be, if you didn't pick up on this tidbit. From the announcement:
Thousands from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore have been invited to join us in bringing WAR to the other side of the world.Emphasis mine. Local servers? It's about time a big-name MMO took our country seriously (and for EA to stop shafting us).They will play on servers located on mainland Australia and will pave the way for the simultaneous launch of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning across North America, Europe, and the Oceanic region on September 18th.
Now might be a good time to check out the Collector's Edition and the exclusive preorder deal.
Beta Goes Down Under [Mythic Entertainment]
Comments
guycorleone
Posted August 11, 2008 1:10 PM
What else is there to say other than "It's about time." Australia has been neglected for far too long.
Craig Askings
Posted August 11, 2008 1:15 PM
I wonder if they are going to be on any of the local peering exchanges? Equinix, PIPE, WAIX etc.
NegativeZero
Posted August 11, 2008 1:42 PM
The downside to playing on Australian servers in Australia being that you're only really going to be playing with Australians and New Zealanders, and if the game doesn't perform well that may not be enough of a playerbase. For hardcore players the lower ping might be worth it, but for more casual or social players it may be a two-edged sword.
Vangalorr
Posted August 11, 2008 1:45 PM
@Craig Askings
According to a thread on Internode a request to mirror the file has been made but it doesnt look promising.
http://games.internode.on.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=152341
bayo
Posted August 11, 2008 2:22 PM
omg an mmo server in Australia... i didn't want to play this game but now I'm tempted to...
RogerTI
Posted August 11, 2008 3:08 PM
@ NEGATIVEZERO
The 'Oceanic' playerbase also consists of SEA countries such as Singapore. As long as the game is good I don't see us having much of a problem with server population
Craig Askings
Posted August 11, 2008 3:26 PM
@Vangalorr I was talking more about the MMO servers themselves, rather than the installer.
Jason Hall
Posted August 12, 2008 10:12 AM
You of course realise, this is only EA using some of the space it already has been using for its Ultima Online shard 'Oceania' wich opened in 2001.
I belive that qualifies as Major MMO at the time.
Rezur
Posted September 15, 2008 1:48 PM
Players like me will also chose Oceanic servers, I'm french but I live in China. Ping is much better and time is pretty much the same for us here.