Camilleke
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Servers will be split into the regions of US West, US East, Europe, and Asia (Korea), with the possibility of Chinese servers down the line. Each region will support 4 times the present capacity of the stress test, which I think was 12 servers in itself. They plan to have the hardware on hand to scale up or down the servers needed at will.
They aim for each server to cater to 3000 players at any one time.
All European countries will be able to play at launch.
There was 10 times the European interest in WoW that they were expecting, and they are taking the market very seriously. Apparently in 2008 the number of MMO gamers in Europe will equal the US market – and I think they want a piece of the action!
Initially servers will be forced. This means that people in the US will have to choose between East and West. Europeans wont be able to play on the US servers and vice versa. The Asian servers will obviously also be cut off from others.
The servers are being forced as the Producer stressed the need for a low latency, but I was told that there will be an option shortly after launch for people to change to any server (against Blizzards recommendation), as they know there are people desperate to play on specific servers regardless.
Blizzard are keen for the customer support level to parallel that of the USA; by forcing servers initially they believe they can improve this support, for example as GM’s will be on in your prime time for your country.
The eventual choice of which server you play on will be down to changing your payment method – not importing a box from another country. Essentially I got the impression it would mean somehow switching payment method to Euros / dollars depending what server you wish to switch to.
Dates
The Blizzard tour is doing a country a day!
The release date for the US is not confirmed, however the Producer mentioned the Euro launch would be out likely before Christmas, and that the US release would be a couple of months before that…
The European beta is coming soon, likely within two weeks. In fact, the Producer said, they are counting down in days not weeks!
There will not be a worldwide release. US and Asia will be released first, with Euro a couple of months after (this winter for Euro, it was hinted).
source : worldofwar.net
Servers will be split into the regions of US West, US East, Europe, and Asia (Korea), with the possibility of Chinese servers down the line. Each region will support 4 times the present capacity of the stress test, which I think was 12 servers in itself. They plan to have the hardware on hand to scale up or down the servers needed at will.
They aim for each server to cater to 3000 players at any one time.
All European countries will be able to play at launch.
There was 10 times the European interest in WoW that they were expecting, and they are taking the market very seriously. Apparently in 2008 the number of MMO gamers in Europe will equal the US market – and I think they want a piece of the action!
Initially servers will be forced. This means that people in the US will have to choose between East and West. Europeans wont be able to play on the US servers and vice versa. The Asian servers will obviously also be cut off from others.
The servers are being forced as the Producer stressed the need for a low latency, but I was told that there will be an option shortly after launch for people to change to any server (against Blizzards recommendation), as they know there are people desperate to play on specific servers regardless.
Blizzard are keen for the customer support level to parallel that of the USA; by forcing servers initially they believe they can improve this support, for example as GM’s will be on in your prime time for your country.
The eventual choice of which server you play on will be down to changing your payment method – not importing a box from another country. Essentially I got the impression it would mean somehow switching payment method to Euros / dollars depending what server you wish to switch to.
Dates
The Blizzard tour is doing a country a day!
The release date for the US is not confirmed, however the Producer mentioned the Euro launch would be out likely before Christmas, and that the US release would be a couple of months before that…
The European beta is coming soon, likely within two weeks. In fact, the Producer said, they are counting down in days not weeks!
There will not be a worldwide release. US and Asia will be released first, with Euro a couple of months after (this winter for Euro, it was hinted).
source : worldofwar.net
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