Is it possible? :D
South East Asia or Oceania Server!
Fri, 09/01/2017 - 08:23
Fri, 09/01/2017 - 18:43
#2
aye
The old server has been closed, but it was in part because of business agreements with Gamecyber, who ran the Asian server. The same agreements region locked several countries from being able to play the official client on Steam, but those restrictions have since been lifted since the Grey Havens acquisition.
I can see it happening if a large score of players from that region show up and start dumping obscene amounts of money into the game while attracting new faces from the area into the game. An abundance of players and cash does have potential, but it's not very likely due to... You know, the lack of a server there.
There used to be an East Asian server. But it was a separate instance of the game world, that did not interact with the North American and European servers. Presumably this was because good performance across those distances could not be guaranteed. The East Asian servers closed several years ago, I think. Someone else can chime in with the details.
Many players have requested servers in Oceania. It hasn't happened, presumably due to some combination of technical difficulty (performance) and economics (not being cost-effective).
As the game ages, its player population will continue to decline gradually, and the economics will only get worse. Sorry.