WoW Classic Will Have Australia And New Zealand Servers

Ahead of World of Warcraft Classic's release in August, Blizzard has now confirmed that there will be local servers for Australia and other parts of the Oceanic region, which is great news.

The Oceanic realms will be available for players in Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of Southeast Asia. The servers are physically located in Australia, and they'll be available at launch on August 27. The specific names of the servers will be announced soon, coming sometime before character name reservations begin on August 13.

Blizzard has also confirmed that the final stress test for WoW Classic will be held July 26 and 27. The test is global, and the aim is to give Blizzard one more opportunity to test the game at scale before its public release. The version of WoW Classic available in the testing period features a number of fixes and changes; Blizzard says testers have filed some 17,000 bug reports from the closed beta. That closed beta is ending on July 13.

"We agree with the many WoW Classic enthusiasts in Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia that it will be a very good thing for players in that part of the world to connect to realms that are hosted in that part of the world," Blizzard said in a statement. "Planned it all along!"

WoW Classic is just what it sounds like: it's the base game, in the state it was more than a decade ago before the release of the Burning Crusade expansion. The game operates alongside the regular WoW. Access to WoW Classic is available through the standard $15 USD/month regular WoW subscription price.