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4 years ago

South African Apex Community Servers

Dear Apex Legends, Respectable Respawn and EA. 

I have a few inquiries and issues that I would like to bring to light and or receive a response from the dev and or customer support. 

Firstly, it is based on a personal issue, I received a match abandoned delay after receiving two error codes, namely error code .net and error code. cloud. Please advise on how this would be considered a penalty if the issue or problem was not on my side and an issue with the server. 

Which brings me to my second issue which is more of a general community issue with regards to a specific region. 

I am a South African based player and would like to highlight the problem we face not only in Southern Africa but Africa as a whole. We as South African have been begging Respawn and EA for servers that are closer to us or at least dedicated to the  Southern part of Africa, as our closest server is Bahrain and que-time are unrealistically unfair(i.e. it takes at least 45 min to find 1 match if you are lucky.)  What is more frustrating is that we are politely forced to play, compete and have our own tournaments with a lowest ping rate of in-between 180-25 ping depending on the day. The inconsistency is killing us. We are not a small Apex community either, we are in fact actually quite large according to what I have seen in the tournaments we try and host. 

Please if anyone could help us with regards to this. A server that would Be a 100 ping consistently would be the best this for the EA community in South Africa and realistically would motivate a lot of Apex players to enter the competitive scene, as now there is almost no point at all due to the 200 ping difference, especially in a Fast paced shooter where reaction time counts in every moment. 

P.S. Thank you for the lovely work you all have done so far with Apex, it is an amazing game and I hope it never dies and only grows. . Kindly take my/our request into account, as we are extremely enthusiastic about apex and would like to have a fair chance in the competitive scene as well as general enjoyment of the most amazing game.

Your truly

JellyNinjaBean

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  • I agree with you dude, I live in Pretoria, Gauteng and can with all honesty say that the lowest ping I ever played on is 200 constant, this puts me at such an unfair disadvantage...its frustrating when the enemy player is at like a 35-70 ping he sees you way before you can react or do pretty much anything, this game is supposed to be a competitive game soooo the message Im getting from you EA/Respawn is South Africans cant play games/ Suck....but if that's the case drop me a lower ping server and Ill show you that even the great Nickmercs wont keep up...We are a huge community of gamers and deserve to be included in the countries that have our dedicated servers/data centres, please EA do something that even Activision has not done yet and be the first major gaming company to drop a server in south africa this will benefit us and you im sure......

    kind regards

    Me.

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