Middle East servers shut down? Unplayable now.

I don't see any of the ME servers online, were they shut down?

We had decent ping (130ms) from South Africa, it was actually kind of playable. 

Now we have nothing.  All the money spent on microtransactions for nothing....

Just realized Bahrain is there but it shot up to 300ms, CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE SOUTH AFRICA A SERVER???  AWS IS BEYOND USELESS IN THE REGION YOU CAN GET LOCAL HOSTING FOR A FRACTION OF AMAZONS COST, MAN!

There's another issue too, users who play from this region gets defaulted to Singapore (120ms), which is fine, but the games are hosted at 300ms, basically nullifying your game in the region to non-technical users, this has been the status quo for many months now, maybe over a year.

Lack of technical accountability and competence at Respawn is pretty freaking scary.

EDIT: I've escalated this higher up in EA, you guys need serious help your networking is a mess.