One of the longest anticipated releases of all time has been an Oceanic server for Australia and all countries in its proximity to play at a decent ping. Here's what Riot had to say.
Australian players have been playing on the North American servers practically since the game has launched. While the players recieve a constant ping, the scene has not been able to develop due to the stable, but outrageous 200+ pings most summoners have to deal with on a constant basis. To remedy this, Riot must create a server specifically for the Oceanic regions. There are some good and bad news that came with this update.
With interest in Australian eSports on the rise for League of Legends as well as the ever growing populace of the LoL community, we've been fed news from someone at the Oceanic offices of Riot themselves.
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Server Status:Last week, 4 Rioters from the LA office and our new Oceanic Network Engineer (Forostie) started the local server build out. I'm not a techy person so I don't really know how to expand this without sounding like a proper noob but we now have almost everything we need to start the imaging and testing / QA of the local servers.
There are still couple of missing pieces but they should arrive by the end of the week but this is a fundamental milestone for our project and I'm happy to share this with you. I also wanted to share something regarding the skin for Oceania. I know that normally when we release a new territory, we do it with dedicated skins for that territory. Unfortunately here I failed. I've been trying to find a skin that would be culturally relevant for both Australia, New Zealand and all other countries included in the Oceanic region but I was not able. I therefore decided to wait for the Community Manager to lead this decision but because I haven't found one yet, I'm afraid we won't have a skin in time for our release.
It normally takes 3-4 months to create a skin from the moment this is "thought / decided" so the choice was either to wait more time to release the platform or launch without a skin and work on the skin later on.”
Source - Riot Games
