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Von_Above_All's avatar
Von_Above_All
6 years ago

South African Servers for Apex Legends-Proposal of business

To whom it may concern

I am a business owner in South Africa looking at the possibility to get involved in Esports. My focus thus far have been Apex Legends. I have come to the understanding that In South Africa we do not have Servers for this game if possible can you direct me to the relevant department or person that could assist me in terms of getting a server in South Africa to enable tournaments to be held and grow the local community.

I have contacted EA directly with no response or simple copy and paste automated replies. My goal is to grow a community that is suffering with a lack of technology to help them be competitive against a global community that have ping latency 5 to 10 times better.

I would like to know what costs are involved and considerations etc for this type of project to be successful.

Thank you

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  • Nagmerrie's avatar
    Nagmerrie
    6 years ago

    My understanding is that Apex utilizes the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Datacentres. Current plans are for AWS to open up a datacentre in Cape Town sometime in the first half of 2020 which would provide EA/Respawn the infrastructure to host local south african servers, but they have not announced any plans to do so yet.

  • houstanheat's avatar
    houstanheat
    6 years ago

    that would be nice we startet a apex group for south Africa and almost everyone left bad server cant play the game we spend money on a game witch is unplayable and ea just don't reply I think its bad for a company to say nothing and just release new content like valentines event but no work for community that sucks I send them messages multiple times no reply so one thing I can say brother spend your time and money somewhere els

  • proffakeshots's avatar
    proffakeshots
    6 years ago

    We desperately need a Server in African! We play with ping between 190 - 250 on average.

    There is a huge player base that enjoys the game and takes it very seriously, there is a petition signed with  17 000 signatures: https://www.change.org/p/electronic-arts-petition-for-african-apex-legends-servers

    SBMM also does not take our ping into account, it is almost impossible winning Predator Gunfights with a ping of 200, you get shot around corners and hit registration against players are wack.

    Can an EA representative please give us feedback if there is any possibility of ever getting a server or will we forever play with 200ping?

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