Hey! I dont know if this is in the right fourm or has come up anywhere but recenetly Roblox has removed Australian regional Servers and no update has been made for it coming back online? Current it is coming up to 2 weeks being down and im surprised no one is even mentioning it.
A lot of speculation of potential branches like NZ and Perth servers are floating around the community and we are hoping that Roblox can somewhat give a update on this. Currently a lot of communitys have canceled competitve comps due to ping going from 40-70ms to 140 - 200ms.
Hopefully if someone has any update on this will be much apperciated!
Thank you for bringing this up. Australian servers not only made it easier to play games on Roblox without noticeable delays, but it also made developing easier. Not being able to replicate a bug because it was only replicatable on a low ping environment was extremely annoying before Australian servers rolled around.
For any non-Australians: AU (Sydney, New South Wales) servers showed up suddenly on the 21st of September 2022. There was no announcement regarding their addition, and it seemingly only happened after there was a slide at RDC 2022 about data centre expansions. About 2 weeks ago (3rd of May 2023) they seemingly stopped working. SGP (Singapore) servers were also shut down at around the same point (I think? I may be wrong, but I could only connect to US West servers for a few days afterwards) but they have since come back.
Connecting to SGP servers aren’t exactly great for Australians because the underwater fibre cables are not placed in a good location, often have over 140ms (as OP has stated) and are extremely unstable
I would love to get some kind of information from Roblox Staff regarding this, especially since we’ve heard nothing about it already.
As a developer of a game that primarily relies on relatively good ping (0-160ms) and has a large Australian player base, the removal of the servers has been a huge blow.
Any communication from roblox about this would be appreciated, but at the moment we are just left in the dark…
From my understanding from what I’ve been told regarding my own inquiry - they are currently updating or ’ rebuilding ’ the SYD1 servers ( I assume Sydney ) whatever that entails.
I am also experiencing this issue and it is making developing on Roblox very difficult, I am faced with many challenges because of this. Slow connection time, horrible ping, taking forever to open and show the Roblox Player or Roblox Studio. It’d be great if Roblox could acknowledge this and fix it as soon as possible.
After hopping onto a Roblox game with a server list (in my case, Deepwoken) I have found that Australian servers came back as of roughly 30-40mins ago!
I don’t think there has been any statements regarding this, but if any of you know of one I’d like to hear it!