I can see why EA aren't interested in hosting the servers here regardless of the amount of people who want to play here. Its too costly to host servers here, Both blizzard and S2 (Heroes of Newerth) find it too costly to host servers in Australia due to Telstra. S2 posted the costs for hosting HoN servers (something which imo would use alot less bandwidth then an mmo) here: http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=39376&highlight=australia+server
"Provider 1: $1250 per month for hardware, $11,250.00 per month for bandwidth per box, box would support 110 concurrent users
Provider 2: $1100 per month for hardware, $22,500 per month for bandwidth per box, would support about 220 concurrent users."
"Provider 1: $1250 per month for hardware, $11,250.00 per month for bandwidth per box, box would support 110 concurrent users
Provider 2: $1100 per month for hardware, $22,500 per month for bandwidth per box, would support about 220 concurrent users."