The excitement for the upcoming holiday season of big gaming releases is becoming palpable, with debates raging across the internet as to which games will be most deserving of our hard-earned year-end bonuses.
Battlefield 3 is clearly a major contender for many FPS fans, and local internet service providers have recently been announcing their official EA ranked server support for the game.
Local game server rental initiative HypeGamez has also announced that they are an official part of the EA Ranked Server Provider (RSP) programme and they will be offering public servers as well as servers for rental to clans and any others interested in their own Battlefield 3 server.
MyGaming caught up with Wayne D’SA, HypeGamez Co-founder and -owner, to learn more about the company and its services.
“HypeGamez was established in August 2008 and started offering South Africa’s first premium, rental game servers. Our server infrastructure is hosted in a Tier1 ISP’s datacentre, which allow us to provide low ping & high availability game servers to our customers,” said D’SA.
“We have EA RSP and Pragmatic Ranked status as an official hosting provider. We currently provide dedicated game servers for a number of SA clan’s that include the following games: BF2, BFBC2, COD4, Armed Assault, L4D2, Crysis, Crysis2 and a number of other servers.”
According to GameTracker.com (a game server tracking service), HypeGamez has the highest ranked servers in South Africa for Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 2 and ARMA 2.
“This proves the calibre of service that our customers enjoy on a daily basis at HypeGamez,” said D’SA.
D’SA detailed the value proposition of HypeGamez’ server offerings:
• Flexible month to month server rental.
• Remote Management – to be able to completely manage the game server and all its facets, including unattended game re-installations, resource and player graphing, unattended PunkBuster/Steam updates, scheduled reboots/tasks and web-based file manager and configuration tools.
• FTP Access – to be able to upload and change maps and mod-packs.
• Dedicated technical support hours.
• Low latency SA based servers.
Battlefield 3 RSP rental service
HypeGamez is an official EA RSP and will be hosting local public Battlefield 3 servers as well as offering dedicated rental Battlefield 3 ranked servers.
HypeGames is offering a pre-order special for BF3 game servers. For orders placed between 9 September and the game launch date of 25 October 2011, they are offering a 15% discount on retail server pricing.
HypeGamez Battlefield 3 rental server pricing
| No. Of Slots | Monthly Rental (Retail) | Pre-Order Discount (15%) | Setup Cost |
| 16 player server | R 444.54 | R 377.85 | R 99.00 |
| 22 player server | R 594.66 | R 505.46 | R 99.00 |
| 32 player server | R 844.86 | R 718.13 | R 99.00 |
| 64 player server | R 1,645.50 | R 1,398.67 | R 99.00 |
The following is included in the server offering:
• Own Branded Server (Dedicated Game Server)
• Ranked Server Status
• Access to FTP to upload and change maps
• Full Remote Access to manage your server
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