If you Check out the new create-a-account screen you can select Australia/Oceania. Now how do I change my current accounts region to that?
Odd that this appears the update after I ask Gaile Gray about showing your guilds nationality and mentioning specifically Australia/Oceania.
Do you guys think theres a new district?
Anyone have a 14 day trial key so I can check it out? and see what districts you come into?
Australia/Oceania Region?
Linkusmax
Clusmas
It is indeed great news!
You can't change your region to it just yet but we predict it won't be too long.
There's an on-going discussion about it over on www.anzgw.com, where no doubt any information will be posted the second it is available.
You can't change your region to it just yet but we predict it won't be too long.
There's an on-going discussion about it over on www.anzgw.com, where no doubt any information will be posted the second it is available.
Sunai
I created a 10-hour trial account to see, and it booted me over to the American district.
Sekkira
Great, I just am dying to be put in the same category with all the Australian scrubs that play GW.
Linkusmax
Geeze Sekkira, you don't have to switch to it when it comes out. Plus Australia has some pretty damn good players anyway. Hell proportionally their at least as good if not better then America. But the numbers mean most of the good players are spread over a number of guilds.
No need to be a dick though, if you are so worried about it just don't change.
It sticks you in the American districts so I assume its just an image thing for tombs and GvG
And Clusmas I am Rhys Aronson on ANZGW.
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Aeoth brought up a good point in IRC though. It could do nothing of the sort but just be to avoid confusion for people from this area of the world. Like being a mask for the American Districts.
No need to be a dick though, if you are so worried about it just don't change.
It sticks you in the American districts so I assume its just an image thing for tombs and GvG
And Clusmas I am Rhys Aronson on ANZGW.
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Aeoth brought up a good point in IRC though. It could do nothing of the sort but just be to avoid confusion for people from this area of the world. Like being a mask for the American Districts.
Queenie
Thats pretty cool, I'll have to check it out when it comes out ;o!!!
Haggard
No Australians on Europe Servers anymore?
Now who do I do quests with at 6am
Now who do I do quests with at 6am
Wretchman Drake
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No Australians on Europe Servers anymore?
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Laibeus Lord
Actually, for the information of everyone. The Australia/Oceania region you now see have been there since Prophecies' beta/preview. A month after the final release of GW:P, they set it up to show only to countries whose IP Addresses are near the Australia/Oceania region, thus the existence of it disappeared from the GW Players' memories.
Secondly, it doesn't exist per se. Some of us here in Asia-Pacific created our accounts in that region but instead appeared in the NA region. So to our understanding, that region do not exist "yet". It might be there waiting for an influx of Aus/Oceania players, the servers might be already in Australia just waiting to be switched on.
We're not sure, but a new region will open up to accounts being accessed based on their IP Addresses, except for Europe and NA which are considered "international". A relative of mine who went to Hong Kong was able to switched to GW-Taiwan region, when he went back here, the Taiwan region disappeared from the selection ^_^
Until ANet/NCsoft announced the availability of the Aus/Oceania region, it's only an empty selection in the region screen
Secondly, it doesn't exist per se. Some of us here in Asia-Pacific created our accounts in that region but instead appeared in the NA region. So to our understanding, that region do not exist "yet". It might be there waiting for an influx of Aus/Oceania players, the servers might be already in Australia just waiting to be switched on.
We're not sure, but a new region will open up to accounts being accessed based on their IP Addresses, except for Europe and NA which are considered "international". A relative of mine who went to Hong Kong was able to switched to GW-Taiwan region, when he went back here, the Taiwan region disappeared from the selection ^_^
Until ANet/NCsoft announced the availability of the Aus/Oceania region, it's only an empty selection in the region screen
TB_
I think the names kinda silly, why not just call it Pacific or just Oceania. But what I can say that is positive is itd be good for all the people in that region (people from singapore, Malasia etc to). No more 250-300pings to play on the closest servers.
Linkusmax
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Originally Posted by Laibeus Lord
Actually, for the information of everyone. The Australia/Oceania region you now see have been there since Prophecies' beta/preview. A month after the final release of GW:P, they set it up to show only to countries whose IP Addresses are near the Australia/Oceania region, thus the existence of it disappeared from the GW Players' memories.
Secondly, it doesn't exist per se. Some of us here in Asia-Pacific created our accounts in that region but instead appeared in the NA region. So to our understanding, that region do not exist "yet". It might be there waiting for an influx of Aus/Oceania players, the servers might be already in Australia just waiting to be switched on. We're not sure, but a new region will open up to accounts being accessed based on their IP Addresses, except for Europe and NA which are considered "international". A relative of mine who went to Hong Kong was able to switched to GW-Taiwan region, when he went back here, the Taiwan region disappeared from the selection ^_^ Until ANet/NCsoft announced the availability of the Aus/Oceania region, it's only an empty selection in the region screen |
Yeah we found out you get dumped in the Americas regions, we were mostly hoping we could select it and have Australia/Oceania appear while playing GvG and tombs. A bit of National Pride and all that. Having some locally based servers for the American districts would be nice too.
Lady Lozza
Oh my, the idea of playing with other Australian again... The first 2 guilds I joined were Aussie guilds and the average age of the players was below 16. Being a "mature age" player relative to the rest of the GW community places me in a position which predisposes me to hate the majority of the GW population due to the average maturity level. As much as I would love to go and win favour for Oceania if we were ever given our own server (which I believe Anet has said is unlikely) then I'm not sure I wouldn't head back to Europe fairly quickly to enjoy the maturity of all my British (among other nationalities) friends who are my age and even older.
Firstly being a fairly multicultural society in Australia, MOST of us have been raised on the idea that not everyone speaks (or should speak) English. IMHO Americans and a lot of Australians speak English worse than foreigners who speak English and yet may of these "native" speakers seem to think it is their RIGHT to take the mickey out of them.
I like seeing other languages being spoken in GW, being multi-lingual myself I'm sure helps, however I've noticed that most people only find other languages annoying because they can't understand them and think, that because of that, these foreign speakers must be taking the mickey out of them. This isn't the case, but if you don't believe me take the time to learn one or two other foreign languages and find out for yourselves.
EDIT: Oh and I'm sure Americans would take offense if I called them Canadians and vice-versa. There IS a difference between Australia and New Zealand, they wear black and white, we wear green and gold.
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I like seeing other languages being spoken in GW, being multi-lingual myself I'm sure helps, however I've noticed that most people only find other languages annoying because they can't understand them and think, that because of that, these foreign speakers must be taking the mickey out of them. This isn't the case, but if you don't believe me take the time to learn one or two other foreign languages and find out for yourselves.
EDIT: Oh and I'm sure Americans would take offense if I called them Canadians and vice-versa. There IS a difference between Australia and New Zealand, they wear black and white, we wear green and gold.
Linkusmax
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Oh my, the idea of playing with other Australian again... The first 2 guilds I joined were Aussie guilds and the average age of the players was below 16. Being a "mature age" player relative to the rest of the GW community places me in a position which predisposes me to hate the majority of the GW population due to the average maturity level. As much as I would love to go and win favour for Oceania if we were ever given our own server (which I believe Anet has said is unlikely) then I'm not sure I wouldn't head back to Europe fairly quickly to enjoy the maturity of all my British (among other nationalities) friends who are my age and even older.
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MadLep
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Europe servers must suck. ALl these different kinds of languages spamming in LA, I can just imagine. Australia is cool, though. I hope they get their own districts. Australia and New Zealand, although New Zealanders complain they're completely different
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NZers ARE completely different.
The main differences are:
-NZ Has better beer (VB sucks, Tasmanian beer is OK though)
-NZ doesn't have a twangy sounding "E" like AU does
-NZ is better at Rugby
-NZ actually has hills
-NZ has Peter Jackson, AU has Russell Crowe (although Rus reckons he grew up in NZ, but don't belive him).
-AU does have Nicole Kidman, but she's overrated (at least according to Tom Cruise).
-NZ has won more international Yacht races than AU (AU's boats usually sink)
Anyway, I predict Oceania will be the dominant force in HA. Look out.
lg5000
So.. NZ has all the good players in this region? Now if ONLY I was online at the same time as the Kiwis, I'd be happy 
M1h4iL
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Huh?
NZers ARE completely different. The main differences are: -NZ Has better beer (VB sucks, Tasmanian beer is OK though) -NZ doesn't have a twangy sounding "E" like AU does -NZ is better at Rugby -NZ actually has hills -NZ has Peter Jackson, AU has Russell Crowe (although Rus reckons he grew up in NZ, but don't belive him). -AU does have Nicole Kidman, but she's overrated (at least according to Tom Cruise). -NZ has won more international Yacht races than AU (AU's boats usually sink) Anyway, I predict Oceania will be the dominant force in HA. Look out. |
Laibeus Lord
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Actually, for the information of everyone. The Australia/Oceania region you now see have been there since Prophecies' beta/preview. A month after the final release of GW:P, they set it up to show only to countries whose IP Addresses are near the Australia/Oceania region, thus the existence of it disappeared from the GW Players' memories.
Secondly, it doesn't exist per se. Some of us here in Asia-Pacific created our accounts in that region but instead appeared in the NA region. So to our understanding, that region do not exist "yet". It might be there waiting for an influx of Aus/Oceania players, the servers might be already in Australia just waiting to be switched on. We're not sure, but a new region will open up to accounts being accessed based on their IP Addresses, except for Europe and NA which are considered "international". A relative of mine who went to Hong Kong was able to switched to GW-Taiwan region, when he went back here, the Taiwan region disappeared from the selection ^_^ Until ANet/NCsoft announced the availability of the Aus/Oceania region, it's only an empty selection in the region screen |
After creating our accounts, we can only choose Korea and North America. A few weeks later, Korea disappeared. A few months later, Europe went live.
And then Gaile was seen saying that Australia/New Zealand do not need a region of their own, someone took a screenshot, I don't have the link right now tho, I think I posted the screenshot over in ANZ website. ^^
My personaly thought is that they either
[1] originally planned to have an AU/Oceania region to get WoW-Aus/Oceania players since WoW do not provide one (during that time)
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[2] the servers are there just waiting to be turned on, if and only if there will be enough CCU for the region. Sadly if "Oceania" there won't be enough, just like in WoW.
ANet and Blizz should instead call is "Asia-Pacific-Oceania" just like UO (before UO split the Asia-Pacific-Oceania into 5 regions because CCU is way way higher then). I mean, how many players will come from Oceania compared to South-East Asia
Just a tip/hint for ANet Guam-Saipan players are mostly members of South-East Asian guilds (as well as Polish players).
Siliconwafer
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So, here's what I know. This is not a separate server, and there are no current plans to implement a separate server. It has been added simply because it makes it easier for Oceania accounts to input the correct address details during account creation.
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CAN WE REPRESENT?
I couldn't care less about the servers. All I want to do is belong to a guild and have it appear on the ladder as Au (or something) and not have the guild lumped into the American or European region. It really is a simple question I am dying to know the answer to. |
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At the current time, the answer is no. I should have stated "server/territory" above.
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http://www.anzgw.com/forum/threadvie...3780&offset=20
Linkusmax
Haha, I love how you gave Indigo's state of mind at the time.
Vaga
I would personally just like a server thats a bit closer.
Leddy
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Huh?
NZers ARE completely different. The main differences are: -NZ Has better beer (VB sucks, Tasmanian beer is OK though) -NZ doesn't have a twangy sounding "E" like AU does -NZ is better at Rugby -NZ actually has hills -NZ has Peter Jackson, AU has Russell Crowe (although Rus reckons he grew up in NZ, but don't belive him). -AU does have Nicole Kidman, but she's overrated (at least according to Tom Cruise). -NZ has won more international Yacht races than AU (AU's boats usually sink) Anyway, I predict Oceania will be the dominant force in HA. Look out. |
-Beer sucks in general. I'm a wine person.
-NZ has a gay sounding "six"; they say it as "sex". And my accent is neutral. I wasn't born in Australia.
-NZ's good at rugby, but what other sports are they good at?
-NZ may have hills, but they sure as hell don't have any jobs.
-Russell Crowe AND Nicole Kidman are both overrated. Russell has family problems and Nicole's getting old. Oh, and by the way, who's Peter Jackson?
-What in hell does Yacht races have to do with how good a country is to live in, anyway? You talk about it like it's critical to the wellbeing of a nation.
Siliconwafer
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-NZ may have hills, but they sure as hell don't have any jobs.
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And not one sheep joke yet :P
Laibeus Lord
yah same here, closer server.
fenix
Hmm it should be interesting to see if this happens, as Gaile said a few times it wouldn't. I don't think I would switch over though, American districts have so many more people...
LOL! All so true, except the beer bit...beer is awesome. You havent had beer until you have James Squire beer...mmmmmm
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-Beer sucks in general. I'm a wine person.
-NZ has a gay sounding "six"; they say it as "sex". And my accent is neutral. I wasn't born in Australia. -NZ's good at rugby, but what other sports are they good at? -NZ may have hills, but they sure as hell don't have any jobs. |
Lexar
But how many people live in australia and oceania combined? 30 million? That's about half or less than let's say any of the european countries like for example italy. And those servers are not exactly what you can call extremely populated. Don't want to sound pessimistic, but if we assume that a comparable percentage of the people has guildwars in any european country with their own district and this new region, than you could assume that the australian oceanian region would have roughly half the population of what the individual european language districts have.
Even in the english speaking european districts, when you don't play at peak hours, but more like later at night or in the morning, some outposts can feel kinda empty already. If you take Australia and Oceania that has a smaller combined population already, the only assumption I could make is that it's going to be a mostly empty region. Unless of course I am mistaken and relatively more people in this region buy the game than they do in europe.
Even in the english speaking european districts, when you don't play at peak hours, but more like later at night or in the morning, some outposts can feel kinda empty already. If you take Australia and Oceania that has a smaller combined population already, the only assumption I could make is that it's going to be a mostly empty region. Unless of course I am mistaken and relatively more people in this region buy the game than they do in europe.
Linkusmax
Lexar, most of us just want a chance to represent Australia or Oceania in GvG and in HoH we dont even care if we get our own districts.
Hell we had a good suggestion in anzgw from a fellow from asia. Put all the areas which arent currently under a territory in SE-Asia (Malaysia singapore etc) and the Oceanic regions under the tag Australasia
Hell we had a good suggestion in anzgw from a fellow from asia. Put all the areas which arent currently under a territory in SE-Asia (Malaysia singapore etc) and the Oceanic regions under the tag Australasia
Manic Smile
I'm in Hawai'i and I'd kinda like to be in Oceania instead of American for the less people if nothing else...
Nikita_AUS
heyas, im australian.. was wondering where i can locate one of these 10day keys??? i wanna logon to the servers and find out what the pings would be like, and just get a general feel of the game, before i go out and buy it...
im a long lived Ultima player ... although no good aussie shards left, playing on UODivininty... thanks
recap: 10-14day trial keys?
thankyou?
im a long lived Ultima player ... although no good aussie shards left, playing on UODivininty... thanks
recap: 10-14day trial keys?
thankyou?
Nikita_AUS
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But how many people live in australia and oceania combined? 30 million?
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aus = 23mill, nz is about 8 mill, malasya and all that are another 20mil...
so it's not tooooo bad
d3kst3r
w00t finally I can find people who play in my own timezone!
Nikita_AUS
heheh... anyone have a 10h trial they arent using? im a uni student and 80$ is a lot of money for me hahaha i think i can get the jist from it in 10hrs
hahaha i think i can get the jist from it in 10hrs
Muse of Shadows
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heheh... anyone have a 10h trial they arent using? im a uni student and 80$ is a lot of money for me
hahaha i think i can get the jist from it in 10hrs |
I am of course assuming you want the Guild Wars: Prophecies 10-14 trial, because as far as I know, there is not one for Factions.
Laibeus Lord
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Oceania is Aus, Indenesia, New Zealand, Malasiya etc...
aus = 23mill, nz is about 8 mill, malasya and all that are another 20mil... so it's not tooooo bad |
For some weired reason I wasn't able to follow, South-East Asia was removed from the Oceania terminology.
Finally, someone who knows how far Oceania covers..
Well, let's say there are 30 million people, but still how many percentage are playing GW? That's what they are considering, they can pull-out data anytime they want to see how many players are coming from which country and region, if until now they still are not even thinking of a Oceania Region or let's make it even bigger "Asia-Oceania-Australia-NZ" region, then it simply means that there is still not enough players to warrant or justify a creation of a new region for us all.
*huhuhuhu*Oh btw, if we really want one, we should further get closer to each other region-wise if we want to have a fighting chance about this matter. Maybe not by posting threads everywhere but maybe through online petitions, signature campaign, and best of all, we get together and organize events as a one-region instead of per countries. ^_^