Please lock OCE servers to OCE players (At first)

[Illmaeran]

I'm not saying I disagree - but how would SE know the difference? There are OCE players on NA servers now. Wouldn't that block them from going to the OCE servers too?

They can probably suss out the player's location based on billing address or other such data-driven things that I know little to nothing about.

I agree with the OP. People who are in the OCE region should be the ones to populate the data center at first. It's an unfortunate fact that people will go somewhere for short term gains and ruin it for those who will be there for the long run. Let the servers on Materia be a closed system (no realm visit, etc) so they have time to develop their own cultures, figure out social expectations, and build stable economies before letting people from outside the DC go in and stir things up.

If they do decide to let people actually located in NA, EU, and JP transfer to Materia, they should have a year-long lock on transferring off that server.



When WoW Classic launched I was on the single RP server because my friends and I wanted an RP guild. It was great until the second day when all the assholes from PvP servers made new characters there because the queues on the RP server were much lower than elsewhere. They completely ruined the server's atmosphere and culture nearly from the get go, turning it in to a steaming pile of Cess Pit of Unusual Size and Unknowable Depth. I was the last one to hang on and even then only lasted until I hit 60 a month later. Everyone else was gone within a couple of weeks.

I don't want the equivalent to happen to the Oceanic/Aus/NZ players transferring to the data center put up specifically for them.