My concern about the lack of Australian servers, and my opinion on SloClap's management on the issue
Hello.
My name is Norindyr. I would like to speak on behalf of all Australians and to all Australians, and would like to say that the majority of us are disappointed. The Australian playerbase, will not be as strong as it could have been and it will be hard to reconcile the damage caused by not having Australian severs on Launch.
BUT, in my opinion SloClap have at-least acknowledged the issue faster than any company I have seen acknowledge anything before, usually you wont hear about it for months and then the company will make a crappy compromise. But they seem to be working on the issue and hopefully they can work harder on deploying the servers as soon as possible.
I do believe this game and there company is different. I'd like to see a response from SloClap, not a vague response from twitter though. I would like them to announce on the forums to OCE Players the current status on the OCE Servers and how long it will be expected for us to get said servers, and if they are willing to compensate us for the damage already dealt to our community.
All I am saying is, this is an issue that could've been avoided by planning ahead, I know they are a small company but organization is not that hard. Props to SloClap for answering so quickly, I was really worried when I saw someone playing on PS4 and the lag was abysmal.
My name is Norindyr. I would like to speak on behalf of all Australians and to all Australians, and would like to say that the majority of us are disappointed. The Australian playerbase, will not be as strong as it could have been and it will be hard to reconcile the damage caused by not having Australian severs on Launch.
BUT, in my opinion SloClap have at-least acknowledged the issue faster than any company I have seen acknowledge anything before, usually you wont hear about it for months and then the company will make a crappy compromise. But they seem to be working on the issue and hopefully they can work harder on deploying the servers as soon as possible.
I do believe this game and there company is different. I'd like to see a response from SloClap, not a vague response from twitter though. I would like them to announce on the forums to OCE Players the current status on the OCE Servers and how long it will be expected for us to get said servers, and if they are willing to compensate us for the damage already dealt to our community.
All I am saying is, this is an issue that could've been avoided by planning ahead, I know they are a small company but organization is not that hard. Props to SloClap for answering so quickly, I was really worried when I saw someone playing on PS4 and the lag was abysmal.
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this is basically every match for me with some worse than this, i have 13ms to the server in brisbane and on NBN.
" working on the issue " simply not having AUS servers on launch was their choice. putting AUS on their Asia server was their choice. Every AUS player i know has a horrible connection on Asia servers and best on NA servers out of Asia, EU and NA when no Oce option is around.
even small companies like Phoenix Labs has an Australian server for their game Dauntless before it even hit beta!
this has nothing to do with organization and everything to do with Australia being ignored.
Firstly, I'd like to acknowledge that my full support is behind SloClap on working this out. As they are probably as freaked out as us. It's probably chaos over there.
Secondly I'd like to inform people, as I did not have a clue about this, but SloClap is only an 8 person team!
With this knowledge it's easy to see that they may be having a lot of trouble handling such a large community, as we are growing exponentially.
Yes there twitter post was vague, but it's the first day. My rant was uncalled for, brash and heated... as I get passionate about things when I invest money into them. I am positive that people are overreacting about the 'No Australian Community, AUS is dead for Absolver before it even started'
A community can be built up after, for instance League (Shitty comparison) didn't have OCE Servers for the first three seasons and there beta, and there team was a lot larger than SloClaps.
We should be fine, give them a couple of days or the week.
compared with a fighting game that has a lot of reaction and timing in regards to its dodges, attacks, and counters to be able to even stand a chance is just a joke.
it doesn't matter what size team is working on this game. overlooking the OCE region like this is just a real shame.
sick of Australia being ignored so heavily when it comes to online games.
I'll hold off on a refund for the next week, however if no further information is provided I will be refunding.
We’re currently working on deploying a server in Australia. At his time we do not have a ETA but we'll let you know as soon as possible.
Regards,
SLCP_Kaolin
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