Titanfall canceled in South Africa

[mornelithe]

HumdrumPie said:

mornelithe said:

HumdrumPie said:
Most of the severs are in America or Europe. Does Microsoft have any severs in the whole African continant? This is a good move by EA. They are sparing South African gamers from a bad experience. I can't imagine playing with a high ping would any fun. They'd get massacred.

Many of them took part in the Beta, and as I stated above, they did have higher latency (between 100-200) they said it was most certainly playable and an absolute blast to boot.  From my experience, 200 is certainly pushing it, but between 100-150?  That should be fine, right?

100 to 150 seems bad, but I honestly could tell you. I don't play much Online. Why would EA cancel otherwise? I bet they would love to sell as many copies as possible, but any bad mouthing on the net could kill the Titanfall hype fast. I assure you there are people who would love to report Titanfall's lauch problems come March 11. 

Hopefully, Microsoft will install sever farms worldwide as I would't count on EA. The added bonus of having Microsoft's worldwide servers available only to Xbox console could draw away from PC to Xbox One. I hope this gets sorted by TItanfall 2.

That's probably it right there, to be honest.  The folks at lazygamer (based in SA), seemed to be genuinely fine with how TF performed during the beta.  However, I can imagine that the vocal minority could damage the hype, or at least, I can imagine EA thinking that.

To give you an idea, the article about it went live at 8:04am (SA time), it's now 8:15am there, and the article is up to 253 comments heh.