One of the benefits of PC gaming is the presence of locally hosted dedicated servers for games such as Battlefield 3, Bad Company 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
These allow South African PC gamers to play without experiencing the latency which is associated with gaming on international servers.
Lately, there have been reports of international players joining the local SGS Operation Metro servers and using a hack which allows them to move faster than the game would normally allow.
As a result, SGS has implemented a country kicker, which effectivly limits its servers to gamers located in Africa.
Only players from the following countries may now connect to SGS servers.
- South Africa
- Namibia
- Botswana
- Mozambique
- Zimbabwe
- Lesotho
- Swaziland
Players trying to connect from outside of these countries will receive a message stating “Game Disconnected: you were kicked by an admin” and be told that they may not connect from their location.
The “country kicker” is essentially an IP block on a firewall which does not allow international IP addresses access to the SGS network. It is currently only being implemented on a servers running the Operation Metro map, but if it proves effective it will be introduced on all of SGS’s servers.
iGame implemented the same measure over a year ago, and also only allows local IP ranges to connect to its servers.
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Interesting approach, why not just fix the bug rather than being zenophobic? What if we friends overseas? Typical SA IT industry fix, lets not do it properly.