I hope you're right, providentt, and an Oceanic server won't be such a waste after all. However, for every success story you mention there a many others that were not so successful. Whatever happens I hope the Oceanic community stays in one place and is not fractured through conflicting information from players and devs.…
I seriously doubt there'll be enough people in Oceania at launch to warrant a separate server. Not just in terms of cost of running the server but it'll be so sparsely populated playing on it will be a single player experience.