Comments on: Another week down, not one Frosty

By: Verdian

Verdian — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:02:07 +0000

Re: the Aussie bank fee debacle, perhaps the recently proposed class action against the big 4 might make them wake up.

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:39:42 +0000

Some fights/boss abilities really expose those raiders with good vs poor latency.

The safety dance (Heigan) is one of them. Defile (Lich King) is another. When we see that the target of Defile was:

(a) a Mage: we rejoice. Hurray for Blink!
(b) a Warlock: we rejoice. Hurray for Demonic Portal/Circles!
(c) one of our raiders from American playing at 3 or 4am in the morning: we rejoice! They’ll be 5 yards further away than anyone else could manage!

I know that I helped campaign somewhere between my first and second year of playing. But then I kind of gave up.

I think I reached a point when the only thing I could do to make my opinion clear to Blizzard was the cancel my subscription (put my money where my mouth is, I spose) and I didn’t want to do that. So I just shut up.

By: Jayd

Jayd — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:02:11 +0000

Speaking as someone who works for an Australian bank, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until people notice that the bank you mention, the one that has cut a lot of fees, a) has kept the ones that actually generate revenue and b) hasn’t got very good products to start with.

I completely agree about the Oceanic servers – it would be wonderful to have some. I don’t see why we can’t have Oceanic servers that Australian, Asian and American people can ALL use? That way the Oceanic realms can be more geared toward players from that region but we can still have our American friends there as well.

By: Ngita

Ngita — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:42:35 +0000

Pretty sure that was in reference to starcraft/diablo and their was some discussion that Australia would be using that centre and not US for those games.

By: Ngita

Ngita — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:41:10 +0000

I am going off memory here, but the local community was given a survey where the choices where concurrent release or wait for servers and choose concurrent release?

Their was also some non-official finger pointing about costs where telstra/bigpond claimed to bending over backwards on costs in response to Blizzards “too expensive”.

But the time to do this has past, any small ping advantage gained would be less then the damage to communities.

As for frosties, its just a natural part of the expansion cycle, I have not run any random heroics for the last 2-3 weeks except for helping out a guildie with a quick queue by using a tank or healer and the number of weeklies/voa’s being spammed is way down.

By: Lath

Lath — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:35:03 +0000

I swear I read just recently that Blizzard were in negotiations to open a data centre in Singapore. I believe its for Starcraft initially but I’m hoping that they eventually open up Oceanic WoW servers there too.

As much as having wonderful latency and Tuesday nights without maintenance will be good it will be sad to lose the flexibility to play on US servers, especially seeing I plan on taking advantage of that next year.

I’ll have to go hunting and see if I can work out where I read this!