Singapore or Sydney server anyone? Sounds good to me.

miahus wrote: »

Forget it. Asia is a bigger market than Oceania and we don't have an Asian server. Don't think Oceania will have their own server if Asia doesn't get it first.

They are basically the same thing...oceanic = asia for the most part

jarydf wrote: »

Singapore or Sydney server anyone? Sounds good to me.

Singapore server oh God pls. No more lag even in pve.

My ping from my country to Sydney (the only location I know in the speed test site) is way worse than to whatever NA server is, so I don't care ^_^

Hell, why not. when game first launched in 2015 for consoles i was heavily surprised that ZOS seem to be oblivious or too poor to afford a basic server for oceanic players. It's 2016 now, just by being an MMO, ESO compete with other MMO's like runescape, that has had servers for every major region since 2000.

Although i will be fair, Runescape is made by Jagex, a UK company. They actually know the US isn't the only region in the world.

That aside, when topics were first made requesting such a server people would make arguing points about population, given there are 3 platforms, each of which have 2 servers, so currently 9 separate servers of a community divided but then when you took into account the faction zones, who before One Tamriel EP players only ever saw EP players, AD saw only AD and DC only saw DC splintered us up even more. Well now at least the last point has been removed if not a reverse - with all the people appearing now it's too damn laggy and if i have to deal with 450+ ping already i most definitely do NOT want the servers to be strained on stupid crap.

Of course if anything is to ever come of this cross-platform compatibility that microsoft have now changed their stance on, we can only hope one day ZOS might see it a worthwhile investment of resources to at the very least merge the consoles, preferably with the PC too, and all players can unite and play and furthermore give them a bigger pool of players who would benefit from an oceanic server as no one could then argue only 10 aussies play etc.

CaptainVenom wrote: »

jarydf wrote: »

Singapore or Sydney server anyone? Sounds good to me.

South America server too, please. Playing with perma 250~300 ping since I started.

250-300 try playing with 500ish

Only if they add a Latin American server first.

Tho, ZOS don't really care about latin americans at all, we don't even have spanish and portuguese translations for ESO. Why would they even mind adding a server south here. Anyway, we are kind used to be treated like that

DrPain wrote: »

It would be nice but not enough of us to make it happen.

With high traffic though my local exchange and packet loss, there are times of the day it's best to avoid ESO. Up to a 3 second delay waiting on a skill to activate is tough. I've even died in the spikes. A local server would be under 50 ms but like I said, there's not enough of us to warrant that.

It's a shame as it such a great game.

I'm pretty sure they is enough of us to play not to mention the countless people Ive spoken to that I play mmos with that say I would love ot play ESO and I gave it ago love it but the lag is insane and I cant compete and thus they go play wow or whatever has an oceanic server. Never forget that if your one of the oceanic players on the US server you are the minority that put up with it most dont, most leave and find something else.

Zinaroth wrote: »

OR they could work on bringing the European server up to American standards aswell.
We all want what's best for ourselves but in the end it's all wishful thinking.
If you're playing an MMO that comes from America, outside of America, you will always be considered a second rank player.
Atleast this is what my experience with numeroues American MMOs dictate.

Just like the countless korean mmos that get NA servers right? If you have the logic we might as well just ditch the mmo genre...well that rate it is declining in popularity we might all be soon.

Travis10123 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they is enough of us to play not to mention the countless people Ive spoken to that I play mmos with that say I would love ot play ESO and I gave it ago love it but the lag is insane and I cant compete and thus they go play wow or whatever has an oceanic server. Never forget that if your one of the oceanic players on the US server you are the minority that put up with it most dont, most leave and find something else.

I did leave for a while but the ping was good back then and it didn't miss a beat. Only been the past 3 months it's been hard to play at times. Thing is I still want to play as I really like the current content.

Another server would mean less players so I'd rather they add a region based ladder to battlegrounds

Travis10123 wrote: »

With battlegrounds coming in soon us oceanic players are really at a disadvantage when it comes to pvp and overall quality of life in ESO and could really use an oceanic server. Is this to much to ask for in this day an age? you give away a million dollars but cant and wont bring up an oceanic server...if ESO is trying to make an impact in the mmo space it needs to draw in players and have a substantial player base, I'm sorry but I dont see it going anywhere if it cant do this simple thing.

It is not really a simple thing.

Besides, I expect that 1 million dollars won't go as far as one might think, when you have to have three Oceanic servers, which means a rented raised floor location, an ISP connection, and all the hardware. We are not talking about picking up a quad core Dell and throwing it into the corner of some broom closet with a long ethernet cable to the accounting firm next door.

Travis10123 wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Travis10123 wrote: »

With battlegrounds coming in soon us oceanic players are really at a disadvantage when it comes to pvp and overall quality of life in ESO and could really use an oceanic server. Is this to much to ask for in this day an age? you give away a million dollars but cant and wont bring up an oceanic server...if ESO is trying to make an impact in the mmo space it needs to draw in players and have a substantial player base, I'm sorry but I dont see it going anywhere if it cant do this simple thing.

It is not really a simple thing.

Besides, I expect that 1 million dollars won't go as far as one might think, when you have to have three Oceanic servers, which means a rented raised floor location, an ISP connection, and all the hardware. We are not talking about picking up a quad core Dell and throwing it into the corner of some broom closet with a long ethernet cable to the accounting firm next door.

Right but you act as if there is no generated income from such an endeavour lol wounder why wow and other mmos offer an Australian/oceanic server? cause its untapped and opens up the game to an entirely new for the most part player base.

I was merely responding to your comments about it being a simple thing. It is no such thing, and it will take months of work before the first player even sees it, and I would guess that it would cost well more than 1 million. It is a significant investment, and would require a massive return.

I can certainly see why ZOS would not want to do this. Especially since they have not done this for Japan. At least, not yet. My guess is that if enough people sign up for the game in Japan, they will consider servers for that geography.

An alternative that might be cheaper could be priority routing from a specific location in Oceania to the EU or NA megaserver. The latency would be higher, but probably not as bad as going it on your own, like today.