{"id":107511,"date":"2016-10-10T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107511"},"modified":"2016-10-10T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:03:42","slug":"south-africa-wont-be-getting-battlefield-1-servers-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107511-south-africa-wont-be-getting-battlefield-1-servers-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"South Africa won&#8217;t be getting Battlefield 1 servers &#8211; here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming recently <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102989-why-there-are-no-south-african-servers-for-battlefield-1-yet.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported <\/a><\/strong>on the lack of local servers in the Battlefield 1 Beta.<\/p>\n<p>Now it appears there won&#8217;t be local servers available for the actual game either, according to a recent report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mweb.co.za\/games\/view\/tabid\/4210\/Article\/27167\/About-Battlefield-1-servers-for-South-Africa.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MWEB GameZone<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is because EA will not permit the third-party renting of any of its servers (internationally) instead opting purely for a personal rent-a-server <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefield.com\/en-gb\/news\/article\/rent-a-server-for-battlefield-1?setLocale=en-gb\" target=\"_blank\">program<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">&#8220;According to an explanation on<strong><a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefield.com\/en-gb\/news\/article\/rent-a-server-for-battlefield-1?setLocale=en-gb\"> Battlefield 1<\/a><\/strong>, EA believes that they&#8217;ll accomplish the following by not using third-party hosts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secure the quality of the actual hardware.<\/li>\n<li>Reach out to EA Support directly instead of third party support.<\/li>\n<li>Customize various game play settings<\/li>\n<li>Give everyone the same uniform experience.This likely means the same rule will apply to all of EA&#8217;s games going forward (including the upcoming Titanfall 2).&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EA will share more information regarding its Rent-a-Server program closer to the launch of Battlefield 1.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 secret tips to boost your gaming performance in Windows 10\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/106805-5-secret-tips-to-boost-your-gaming-performance-in-windows-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 secret tips to boost your gaming performance in Windows 10<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is what everyday South Africans thought of VR\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/107365-this-is-what-everyday-south-africans-thought-of-vr.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is what everyday South Africans thought of VR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a 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Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":93983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,3,11681,4],"tags":[18543,1600,21186,99,2163],"class_list":["post-107511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-battlefield-1","tag-local","tag-ping","tag-servers","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107513,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107511\/revisions\/107513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}