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World of Warcraft: Forever [https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/world-of-warcraft-forever/] is "realmless", which has a couple of advantages for oceanic (OCE) players—who so often get the short end of the stick when it comes to MMORPGs. Blizzard has servers in Australia, so OCE players can enjoy not having terrible ping, but due to the smaller playerbase they share a lot of overlap with the North American server architecture.

Which produces a unique problem: As it stands, OCE players are stuck in perpetual night. See, Forever has a 24 hour day/night cycle, so if you play during the evening and your timezone's matched to the server, the sun will set in Azeroth roughly at the time it would outside your window. But since OCE players are very much not local to North America… the curse of endless night persists.

As explained here [https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-forever-adds-dynamic-lighting-but-oce-is-stuck-in-perpetual-midnight-fix-the-daynight-cycle/2365303] on the WoW forums...