“Unfortunately we don’t get many opportunities to build the skill level of our players in South Africa, because we don’t consistently play against the best in the world – and we can’t because of internet distance.” – I think this will be changing very soon. What we need is for some of the bigger service providers like TELKOM, IS, NEOTEL, MTN, and SEACOM to step in and assist. They have infrastructure and peering in place whereby, if they were to set up a server in a central African region, we could be playing against Europe with about 50-70 ping each side. That is definitely within the playable range, even for high-paced competitive FPS. It’s already possible as the infrastructure is already live for the most part – the problem we face is a lack of game server presence in central Africa, ie a lack of sponsorship/permission from these bigger providers to host dedicated servers for Steam games, which is really all we need to make this a reality!
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“Unfortunately we don’t get many opportunities to build the skill level of our players in South Africa, because we don’t consistently play against the best in the world – and we can’t because of internet distance.” – I think this will be changing very soon. What we need is for some of the bigger service providers like TELKOM, IS, NEOTEL, MTN, and SEACOM to step in and assist. They have infrastructure and peering in place whereby, if they were to set up a server in a central African region, we could be playing against Europe with about 50-70 ping each side. That is definitely within the playable range, even for high-paced competitive FPS. It’s already possible as the infrastructure is already live for the most part – the problem we face is a lack of game server presence in central Africa, ie a lack of sponsorship/permission from these bigger providers to host dedicated servers for Steam games, which is really all we need to make this a reality!