Earlier today (20 October 2011) the news broke that South Africa would be among a new wave of countries to offer dedicated server support for Gears of War 3.
It turns out that MWEB is the ISP behind the deal, through their existing partnership with game hosting platform service GameServers.com.
MWEB explained that the deal came after Microsoft approached GameServers.com to host dedicated servers for Gears of War 3 in a number of regions, which included South Africa.
“We know there are a lot of South African gamers playing Gears of War 3, so we’re really excited about making servers available to GameServers.com. With these servers deployed locally, players will no longer experience the higher latencies associated with connecting to international servers, which should make the game play experience so much better,” said Desmond Kurz, online gaming manager at MWEB.
“MWEB is grateful to Microsoft, on behalf of South African Xbox gamers, for considering South Africa as a region to deploy these game servers, despite earlier reports that these servers were not going to be deployed in the country.”
MWEB also promised to continue to look for opportunities to improve the South African gamer’s experience, particularly in the console space where the experience is not yet up to the standard set in Europe and North America.
“To our knowledge, this Gears of War 3 dedicated server is the first locally hosted console game server in South Africa and we hope that this will be the start of a trend in which console game publishers and providers increase their footprint in the SA market,” said Kurz.
“MWEB will actively pursue such opportunities to improve the online gaming experience for local players,” he concluded.
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