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 players away from PC to Xbox One. I hope this gets sorted by TItanfall 2.

Looks like you may have been right about that bad mouthing thing.  Apparently a small contingent of gamer's in SA filed a complaint under the Consumer Protection Act in SA: 

"I refer to Consumer’s rights to safe, good quality goods, section 55 of the National Consumer Act. It is my understanding that consumers have the right to be informed of any diminished qualities a product may contain. In the case of this product, no local facilities are in place in order to support the play experience sufficiently…"

http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/why-south-africa-cant-have-nice-things/