Blizzard to deploy Australian servers for World of Warcraft ahead of Warlords of Draenor Blizzard have dedicated a set of realms in World of Warcraft to ‘Oceanic’ players for a long while now - but they’ve always run on datacenters in other continents. That’s to change in the weeks before the release of Warlords of Draenor. A new bank of servers in Australia will serve the country and New Zealand with that greatest of gifts: reduced latency. Players already on an Oceanic realm - namely Barthilas, Frostmourne, Thaurissan, Saurfang, Caelestrasz, JubeiThos, Khazgoroth, AmanThul, Nagrand, DathRemar, Dreadmaul, or Gundrak - will be switched over to the new machines automatically once they arrive. Blizzard are aiming to have them installed before Warlords of Draenor’s release date of November 13. Continue reading
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:26:51 +0000