Trying to help: People who want to play Black Ops - without MWeb Accounts

[Neo]

Okay so I'm actually going to try and post something positive about this whole CoD: Black Ops issue. I'm doing this to help people who don't currently have MWEB accounts who want to play Black Ops. We can try and post "workarounds" in the meantime to help our fellow gamers out:

1) First solution would be to move ISP's and get an MWEB account. But many people like me are more than happy with their current ISPs (mine being WebAfrica) and I'm not prepared to leave my ISP over a single game.

2) You could buy some sort of prepaid account at an ISP that is hosting their accounts on the IS backbone. This will allow you to at least play on the MWEB COD servers with a reasonable ping.

As far as I know, the above two fixes are the only options currently available to local Black Ops players. Some guys have suggested that you can buy a prepaid AfriHost account - but I'm not sure how that would work. It does seem awkward to change your ADSL settings each time you want to play a single game - but at least it should technically work.

[Blaze786]

Move to mweb, Enough said.

[Neo]

Move to mweb, Enough said.

Dude, I pay R299 a month for a 25GB ADSL account at WebAfrica. Moving to MWEB is not the smartest answer here, especially not for one game. I think the smartest thing would be option 2, to get a prepaid AfriHost account.

Just to add, this is NOT a "go MWEB go you're our hero" thread. I'm trying to help people who want to play Black Ops. I couldn't give a CRAP about MWEB and their pioneering efforts in this thread.

[Raven Gold]

Don't buy black ops, an even better option.

[sycogrim]

Move to an ISP that sits on the IS Backbone and is cost effective at the same time... enough said...

[Blaze786]

Dude, I pay R299 a month for a 25GB ADSL account at WebAfrica. Moving to MWEB is not the smartest answer here, especially not for one game. I think the smartest thing would be option 2, to get a prepaid AfriHost account.

Just to add, this is NOT a "go MWEB go you're our hero" thread. I'm trying to help people who want to play Black Ops. I couldn't give a CRAP about MWEB and their pioneering efforts in this thread.

Likewise I couldn't give a crap about your anti-Mweb shpeel.

These are your options.

1 - Buy an mweb account.
2 - Buy bandwidth from an isp that is peered with mweb.
3 - Play on international servers.
4 - As stated DONT buy Black Ops!

[czc]

Should have gotten a free gig with Afrihost when they had it on offer

[Raven Gold]

If push comes to shove and your STILL stupid enough to buy black ops, doesn't have a P2P system like MW2 along side the servers?

[Grimspoon]

I pay R199 for 30GB on Webafrica, for an extra R15 I can move to Mweb and have an uncapped account. Makes sense to me.

[Neo]

Geesh instead of trying to stick with the topic and trying to help fellow gamers out by finding ways to successfully play Black Ops, you're still rather punting the MWEB solution. You guys are pricks.