Aussie aussie aussie . . .

[Katanauk]

Oi .. . nah, im not even aussie, i just live here, still . . .

John Smedley ‏@j_smedley
Aussies... we are looking at a server somewhere in your fine country if there are enough of you that want to play.


That's a nice little surprise! Aussie based servers!

[dafuq]

i like kangaroo meat

[Fizzgig]

There's a deadly spider on your shoulder

[Toppopia]

Hot damn! I will have a 50ms ping because i live in the glorious New Zealand. So please make a server in Australia, i don't care too much about ping because i don't want to sound like an American that thinks they are entitled to a ping that is less than 30ms. But it would be awesome to play with people in my own timezone and such, would make it easier for my Mount and Blade clan to make an outfit as well.

[Emperor]

Glad to hear this, as I know a few .au gamers who tend to get the shaft where servers are concerned. Hopefully they show enough interest and get a server!

[BraavikStal]

Awesome! There will be enough of us playing, don't you worry smed

[Katanauk]

Hot damn! I will have a 50ms ping because i live in the glorious New Zealand. So please make a server in Australia, i don't care too much about ping because i don't want to sound like an American that thinks they are entitled to a ping that is less than 30ms. But it would be awesome to play with people in my own timezone and such, would make it easier for my Mount and Blade clan to make an outfit as well.

50ms? That'd be brilliant ha! 100 would be nice to be honest!

[Electrofreak]

Hot damn! I will have a 50ms ping because i live in the glorious New Zealand. So please make a server in Australia, i don't care too much about ping because i don't want to sound like an American that thinks they are entitled to a ping that is less than 30ms. But it would be awesome to play with people in my own timezone and such, would make it easier for my Mount and Blade clan to make an outfit as well.

I spend my work week arguing with people (here in the US) about ping times. You'd be surprised the number of people who think they should be entitled to pings faster than the speed of light. Sending them all to an island in the middle of an ocean seems like a great idea.

[Toppopia]

50ms? That'd be brilliant ha! 100 would be nice to be honest!

Thats my experience playing things like Mount and Blade or Team Fortress 2, i wouldn't care if its 100ms-150ms, thats what i was used to playing COD or BF3, but now i am at university, i have better internet and get less than 50ms most of the time playing computer games, but i wasn't allowed to bring my xbox so i don't know what my COD ping would be like, probably much better, so i will be happy if its less than 150ms.

[NePaS]

Nice!

I know the Aussie's and Kiwi's get a rough deal most of the time,better get some recruits drummed up!

[Talented Maori]

I'll believe it when Im not lagging behind by 200ms!!! New Zealand internet is shlt compared to alot of other places....., we need fibre over these ways!!!!

[Toppopia]

I'll believe it when Im not lagging behind by 200ms!!! New Zealand internet is shlt compared to alot of other places....., we need fibre over these ways!!!!

I don;t know why, but Hamilton has excellent internet :eek:

I get roughly 10MB/s download speed so i can most of the time download games in 15-30 minutes (10GB game) :eek:

[Katanauk]

I don;t know why, but Hamilton has excellent internet :eek:

I get roughly 10MB/s download speed so i can most of the time download games in 15-30 minutes (10GB game) :eek:


I live in Brisbane and have no trouble connecting to USA servers, and I play on them relatively well too, been playing BF3 on East coast servers to see how it fairs in anticipation of PS2 and its not that godawful to be frank.

[noodz]

We'd only need like 1 server for Aus/NZ. Could be good if there is enough numbers playing...

[Talented Maori]

I don;t know why, but Hamilton has excellent internet :eek:

I get roughly 10MB/s download speed so i can most of the time download games in 15-30 minutes (10GB game) :eek:

True, so you're at Waikato Uni then? I was there a few years ago!

[Toppopia]

True, so you're at Waikato Uni then? I was there a few years ago!

I;m in my first year of a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and one reason i like University is the very good internet :groovy:

[Talented Maori]

I;m in my first year of a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and one reason i like University is the very good internet :groovy:

I liked Uni 'cos of "O" week and all the fine honeys....., damn there was some sexy ladies at Uni!!! :-)

[windlord]

Awe that friggin great news. I'm sure there'll be at least a servers worth of Oceania people lined up to have a crack at it. It's certainly a relief to hear.

[camycamera]

glad to hear that we are getting servers :D

btw Americans, we do not speak like retards, we do not live on farms or deserts or whatever with kangaroos everywhere....

[rebalnz]

awesome!!! my clan is thinking about investing in this PL2, we are all from aussie/nz. definitely be enough for one server maybe more being an fps might attract more attention.since its fps based mmo i think its critical for local servers IMO. or else could be a bit of a mess with 200ms+ pings. great that they're even considering it.

[fod]

best news for me yet.!!
200+ ms pings sucks with any FPS game

[DirtyBird]

Good luck.
West coast and constant pops are more appealing.

[Brusi]

Yeah, i'm taking this tweet with a pinch of salt...

I mean, hopefully there will be that many people interested at release to consider a server, however we should still probably expect a server merge with west coast a year or so after release anyway, even if they do set one up.

*crosses fingers* though.

Also... *SETS ALARM FOR 3AM...* FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

[Apocpilot]

I hope we get a server and enough players :D

[Momember]

Also... *SETS ALARM FOR 3AM...* FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Yeah tell me about it ....

I have been telling all my friends to get excited about this game and I know kotaku has been hyping this game up heaps lets make this happen.

[SKYeXile]

I have mixed feelings on this.

[Brusi]

I have mixed feelings on this.

rad ping vs bailing your established outfit?

[SKYeXile]

rad ping vs bailing your established outfit?

prettymuch, and left with the delema of if there is AU servers most people that play the times i play would play on the AU servers.

[Brusi]

ew... forgot about that. Do you think it would have a really noticable effect on the population of US west servers during Aus peak times? Anyone still wanting to play there would be ghosthacking by themselves.

There really is a benefit of having people from different timezones playing on the same same servers.

Ah well, if my memory serves me correctly, playing on Markov a few years after release during Australian peak times (8pm - 2am) could be freaken depressing.

[Trignite]

So how do we let him know that we want a sever in aus? spam him with tweets? i wish devs wouldn't use twitter so much and instead visited forums more.

[Brusi]

They are on the forums plenty. I'm sure they will know exactly how many players they have from Australia from their station account details, right?

[Apocpilot]

They are on the forums plenty. I'm sure they will know exactly how many players they have from Australia from their station account details, right?

Probably...

My biggest concern is that it is hard for Australians to obtain a key during beta key blast, hell I myself had to stay up till 5am to get one. If they want us to get the target members then they would need to focus on handing out more keys to our region... :/

[Piper]

Bonza news for all you Bruces. :)

Bruces

[Carnage]

With any luck me asking about oceanic servers on the comic-con Higby interview helped them remember that we still exist.

[HeatLegend]

I dont live in Australia ( although I did for a year when I was a baby ) But I sort of wished my support counted as an aussie- GIVE THEM THEIR SERVERS, THEY'RE HUMAN TOO FOR GOD'S SAKE.

[VanguardRyfe]

Yes please for the love of god Aussie servers.

[Narsus]

YES! Let it be known there are plenty of oceanic soldiers awaiting passage into the realm of low latency mayhem! xD

[KALU]

This is great news BUT for the VET Aussies im sure we can all agree that FRIENDS > PING

But for all the new comers this is a fantastic move, and seeing PS2 will be on Steam i would imagine allot of Aussie players.

[fod]

This is great news BUT for the VET Aussies im sure we can all agree that FRIENDS > PING

But for all the new comers this is a fantastic move, and seeing PS2 will be on Steam i would imagine allot of Aussie players.

i have a few friends in planetside 1 that are aussies that will probably move to an aussie server if there was one also most of my RL friends will be trying planetside for the very first time and im quite sure they will want to play on an aussie server also
so i get both friends and ping :p

[Katanauk]

[/B] FRIENDS > PING


What is a "FRIENDS" ?

Ping will do me.

[Brusi]

Friends and Pingers

[Salad Snake]

I spend my work week arguing with people (here in the US) about ping times. You'd be surprised the number of people who think they should be entitled to pings faster than the speed of light. Sending them all to an island in the middle of an ocean seems like a great idea.

Hawaii player here, we don't want 'em.



That said, I really do hope you Aussies can get a server of your own. All the ones I talk to always seem so passionate about gaming that it's a crime to leave you all out in the cold so often.

[eybro]

This is great news! thanks mr trollface/SOE
any old Aussie bf2142 clans migrating to PS2?

[capiqu]

glad to hear that we are getting servers :D

btw Americans, we do not speak like retards, we do not live on farms or deserts or whatever with kangaroos everywhere....

Don't forget to walk the Joey before bedtime. :)

[Tsunami]

i like kangaroo meat

dafuq

[FirmSabre]

Yes, we desperately need an Aussie server. :drools:

[StumpyTheOzzie]

Friends and Pingers

All my friends are pinging regularly. :groovy:

Don't know about this... I have a good-ish reputation in a big outfit, know the team I work with very well and know my enemies.

Sun Tzu would have me stay where I am for the great 888 golden luck victory!

[Apocpilot]

Any update on an aussie server? :D

[Apocpilot]

UPDATE! :D
ReContraDog ‏@ReContraDog

@j_smedley HI! I've created a survey to find out interest in a Australasian server for PS2! I hope to have results for you in 5 days -contra John Smedley ‏@j_smedley

@ReContraDog awesome. Honestly we are just going to bite the bullet and put a server down there.
https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/233555935354818560

[rebalnz]

awesome this just peaked my interest for PS2 alot. my clan wasn't really considering it since it was a fps with american servers. couldn't see it working well.

[Nemises]

...mate, still going to be 150+ms from nz -> aus on that dialup/pigeon carrier you call broadband down there...:P

[FONKY]

This would be awesome! I'm sure we can get the numbers if Sony publicises it a bit :)

[Apocpilot]

From what I'm hearing latency isn't a big issue for aussie players in the beta which is a very awesome sign. :D

[Toppopia]

From what I'm hearing latency isn't a big issue for aussie players in the beta which is a very awesome sign. :D

Thats a good sign then.