Update 5/18/06
We have experienced some minor delays when setting up our new authentication and realm hardware. This will likely delay the release of the Oceanic realms slightly; however we are still currently planning for their release next week.

You may have noticed new US realms opened before the planned Oceanic realms, the reason for this is two fold. The Oceanic realms exist in specific geographic locations. This is done to provide the quickest information travel time from client to server, aka a lower latency. The hardware these US realms exist on is not in the desired geographic location for an Oceanic realm. The second reason being that it's important players looking for new realms, but that may not live in an Oceanic time-zone, be able to play on a new realm closer to their own time-zone, instead of playing on an Oceanic realm as a compromise. This can help ensure that the Oceanic realm population consists of players more or less existing within the same play schedules.


We are currently planning to open two new Oceanic realms in one week. The opening of these realms depends on tests of our new authentication hardware which we will be testing later this week. Our current schedule is to release these new realms in one week; however this is subject to change depending on our authentication hardware tests.

We will provide more information as soon as it is available. Keep an eye on the main website as well as here in the General forum.
[ post edited by Drysc ]