World of Warcraft players come from all over the world, which also means that in some parts of the world, the amount of lag players experience will differ from those living in the US or in Europe where some of Blizzard’s servers are located at. Now the good news is that after what seemed like forever, Blizzard has finally announced that they will be deploying new servers to cater to the Australian and New Zealand market.
This should ultimately mean that gamers living in those regions or who are playing close to those regions will experience smoother gameplay. “Players currently on an Oceanic realm—Barthilas, Frostmourne, Thaurissan, Saurfang, Caelestrasz, Jubei’Thos, Khaz’goroth, Aman’Thul, Nagrand, Dath’Remar, Dreadmaul, and Gundrak—should automatically experience improved latency once the new game servers go live.”
So what about gamers from Australia or New Zealand who are playing on North American servers? Well the good news is that if you’re on realms such as Blackrock or Proudmoore, Blizzard will be offer free character and guild master realm transfers for a limited period of time. Blizzard is also planning on launching local servers as well which should go live ahead of Warlords of Draenor.
All of these changes seems to suggest that Blizzard is investing further into their World of Warcraft franchise. Given that the company’s next-gen MMO Titan was shelved, we guess Blizzard has decided to shift their focus back to their current, but again, MMORPG.
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