{"id":107743,"date":"2016-10-11T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T11:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107743"},"modified":"2016-10-11T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:31:08","slug":"why-south-africas-lack-of-local-servers-is-actually-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107743-why-south-africas-lack-of-local-servers-is-actually-a-big-deal","title":{"rendered":"Why South Africa&#8217;s lack of local servers is actually a big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming recently <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107511-south-africa-wont-be-getting-battlefield-1-servers-heres-why.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported <\/a><\/strong>on the news that Battlefield 1 will not be receiving local servers in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>We subsequently had dozens of comments complaining about the lack of servers and the promise of dropping Battlefield 1 from their wishlist.<\/p>\n<p>But what difference do local dedicated servers actually make?<\/p>\n<p>Because South Africa is so far from the rest of the world&#8217;s internet hubs, when we play games we are typically connecting to servers on other continents &#8211; usually Europe, North America and parts of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>That means that no matter how fast your internet is, you will always face some form of latency, as game packets are literally sent halfway around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Local servers nullify these high pings massively, making you overall experience much more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>It also has other knock-on effects, it helps foster local communities and\u00a0allows gaming to be taken more seriously as local eSports teams can compete\u00a0on a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s therefore important that we see servers brought in if we want to grow and be take seriously as a gaming community in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the worst part is that servers are relatively inexpensive to own and maintain, it just requires some effort on behalf of the developer.<\/p>\n<p>Most die out due to a natural lack of activity, at which they are taken offline and can be replaced by another more popular title.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, we will buy games like Battlefield 1 because 150ms is still a playable experience &#8211; we just deserve a lot better.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMhtKo__Vmo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Now Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107511-south-africa-wont-be-getting-battlefield-1-servers-heres-why.html\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa won\u2019t be getting Battlefield 1 servers \u2013 here\u2019s why<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why getting local servers in South Africa is actually a big deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":107751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,3],"tags":[31,1611,2399,1600,99,2163],"class_list":["post-107743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-pc","tag-active","tag-esports","tag-lan","tag-local","tag-servers","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107743","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=107743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107753,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107743\/revisions\/107753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}