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4 years ago

APEX LEGENDS SOUTH AFRICA SERVER

Good day, 
I really hope that this email reaches someone, as it is an email of desperation.
I am nobody, and just a single one person just trying to make a difference.If i don't take this chance, and send this email, i will never know if i could make a difference or what the outcome would have been.
My email today is about Apex Legends, it is not a complaint, but rather a kind request out of desperation.
We have been playing Apex Legends for some time now, since its release in 2019, we love the game, we love the way it is developed and is still to be developed over the years, as it has shown such great promise.
But we are unable to enjoy the game to its fullest extent as we struggle with high latency.
We are a community of gamers in South Africa. but we don't have any local servers to connect to, thus meaning we have to connect to servers abroad. - we get high latency 180 - 220ms ping- this does not allow us to be able to enjoy the game
My email is about a request for Local servers in South Africa, Cape Town or Johannesburg,- please have a look or something about putting in servers in these regions in South Africa- we have 10's of thousands of people who play Apex Legends, and thousands more who want to play, but they don't want to due to the high latency.- there will be a massive increase in player databases if these servers are implemented.- and confident also increase in, in game sales as well, 
We just want to also enjoy the game, it's been 3 years since the launch, and we just want to enjoy it as well.- connecting to the other servers such as London, Belgium, Amsterdam, Singapore is the only way we can play the game, but at the same time it is putting you at a disadvantage, as you are playing on a higher ping.- competing with other players that are on 40ms compared to 180 or 200ms is not possible, and can get frustrating at times.- we spend loads of money in the stores, buying packs or skins etc, but you can't really enjoy that if you are playing on servers you have high ping.
We have great infrastucture, Fibre, Data Centres etc.- we already have other major games that are hosted locally, such as CSGO, Call of Duty and others. 
i cannot explain the love that we have for gaming in South Africa, and to add Apex to that will grow the community even more. 
I really just hope this email reaches someone who can try to make a difference in our gaming community.
Please, I ask you kindly, please implement and install Local Apex Servers in the South Africa region.
We even have a petition with over 20 000 people who have signed it, however people have started losing hope.- Forums full of gamers wanting local servers in South Africa.
If you have received this email and you have read it, thank you for your valuable time. 
Thank you

5 Replies

  • @xz1ck0xI’m with you young man. I have no clue about servers but my boys keep telling me the same thing you’re saying. I’m on it, I’ll do my best to see what it takes to create servers here. However I’m sure ea sports has ownership of all their servers, so it’s about time they take us seriously here in South Africa, especially here in Johannesburg, the tech capital for servers. Let’s see, I could easily set up servers and run them, it’s just I’m only figuring it out as I’ve come across this issue as we speak.

    God Speed,
    And keep the Dreams up boys
    Peace ✌️

  • I am an Electrical Design engineer, our company builds data centers all over Africa. Aside from this I have contacts in the industry who also build data centers and also rent out servers. If EA needs support in renting out or even construction of their own data centers I am willing to help out.

    I know many friends, who know more people that love Apex Legends but sometimes opt to play other games because of lack of good connection.

  • Asmodeus566's avatar
    Asmodeus566
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    2 years ago

    @ssbeebs 
    As this thread is a bit old at this point, we are going to lock this down so that we can prevent any necro-posting.

    If you run into any further issues please create a new thread so that we can begin tracking accordingly!

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