Titanfall canceled in South Africa

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vivster on 07 March 2014

That's why god invented single player games and PS4 and Infamous. I hope they won't suffer too much.

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mornelithe on 07 March 2014

HumdrumPie said:

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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.

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BeElite on 07 March 2014

why not just lock em into playing with other SA players only.

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mornelithe on 07 March 2014

BeElite said:
why not just lock em into playing with other SA players only.

That would just make too much sense :)

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Dr.Grass on 07 March 2014

Two points to add:

1) X1 hasn't been released yet so this is obviously the PC version that's being talked about.

2) Internet speeds vary quite a lot here, but some people have high bandwidth/low latency connections so this seems odd.

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mornelithe on 07 March 2014

Dr.Grass said:
Two points to add:

1) X1 hasn't been released yet so this is obviously the PC version that's being talked about.

2) Internet speeds vary quite a lot here, but some people have high bandwidth/low latency connections so this seems odd.

Response from EA to Mweb in SA:

After conducting recent online tests for Titanfall, we found that the performance rates in South Africa were not as high as we need to guarantee a great experience, so we have decided not to release Titanfall in South Africa at this time.

We understand this is a disappointment for local fans and will keep fans posted on any future plans regarding the release of Titanfall in South Africa

That doesn't suggest it's just for PC, and while yes the XB1 hasn't launched in SA, this doesn't specify a platform.

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Hankoney on 07 March 2014

One question from me, a technical illiterate:

Can a person in SA still import the game (buy a code, get a disc) and be able to connect to the server, or does this mean that as soon as the server recognizes SA IP address, they get blocked off from playing?

Because if it's the latter, I'm afraid this might snowball into other countries. I know a few of my friends in Croatia (which is not, and never will be, officially supported by MS) are looking forward to playing, but this could mean that their potential bad connection might block them from gaming.

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mornelithe on 07 March 2014

Hankoney said:
One question from me, a technical illiterate:

Can a person in SA still import the game (buy a code, get a disc) and be able to connect to the server, or does this mean that as soon as the server recognizes SA IP address, they get blocked off from playing?

Because if it's the latter, I'm afraid this might snowball into other countries. I know a few of my friends in Croatia (which is not, and never will be, officially supported by MS) are looking forward to playing, but this could mean that their potential bad connection might block them from gaming.

You'd have to inquire to EA about that, I'll check with the folks at LG and see if they've asked.