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5 years ago

Apex legends servers in south africa

Hi EA We are are a big Apex community in south africa ahat plays Apex Legends every day. Is it really to much to ask for servers in out country or even servers in africa will be better. Most pl...

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EA_Darko

Community Manager

5 years ago

Hey @IamSky_ZA sorry I missed that.

Your UO Trace is showing some incredibly high ping times, the best thing to do is to go through the troubleshooting I shared above and to also speak with your ISP and ask them what they can recommend. If you show them the UO Trace they will see the issue.

Darko

RSArussian

5 years ago

@EA_Darko I think you misunderstood the poster, this isn't "connection issues", the problem is that the servers are located very far away - there are no close servers for South Africans to connect to.

I believe AWS and AZURE have datacenters in South Africa now and can locally host servers / services here. The poster is requesting that Apex Legends servers are hosted in South Africa as well, so that local players don't suffer the 200ms ping (it could serve lower Africa actually, and northern Africa could still use European Servers).

One note: I lived in South Africa for 28 years, and recently moved to Germany (~ 8months). The entire game changes of course, it's incredibly frustrating playing any competitive online game with ping so assuming it's trivial to boot up servers here (since AWS and AZURE are already used in other parts of the world for Apex Servers) this would be a huge leap for the local gamers of South Africa

ILikeGlueHmm
5 years ago
@RSArussian Its a Bot lol has to be.
- wongcung
  New Vanguard
  5 years ago
  I concur.
  Dont understand whats the problem with servers, even if up in Africa. Baffles my mind, if COD warzone can do it, put the servers in the same building?? What the hell. Apex is 10 times bigger?