Originally Posted by Acaila
G'day, I'm the Internode rep that made that post on WP (About Oceanic servers)
Internode 1st approached Blizzard about hosting WoW servers in Australia at the 2004 E3, we had "disscussions" with Blizzard on and off for a few years and in the end we were told that its just not ecconomically viable for them to run servers here.
Nothing to do with Telstra being the only "true" provider (Which is bullshit) and nothing to do with available space in a Data Centre.
Just pure $ invested vs potential return.
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Thanks for that info, wasn't sure if it was a Telstra thing or not but with the abundant Telstra hate that gets around that's the story I was told over and over =\
So they decided that the investment wasn't worth it for the minimal returns? There would be enough Australian players to fill up (pulling this out of my ass here) say 4 servers at the very least right? add to that all the Singaporean and other english speaking south east asian countries and New Zealand and I would've thought we'd be set. I'm sure there's more to the story than just that? Or do Blizzard actually need to deploy 20+ servers to a region before they consider it "ecconomically viable"? They have individual battlegroups for different languages in Europe don't they?
It makes me a little sad that we live in a fairly free and great country yet because of it's physical location we get jipped hard with technology like the internet. I'm surprised none of the politicians have thrown it in their policies with the upcoming election, "cheaper traffic to the US" things like that. I'm sure we could strike a deal with America somehow
