{"id":27955,"date":"2011-11-29T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=27955"},"modified":"2011-11-29T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:27:52","slug":"mweb-launches-petition-for-local-console-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/27955-mweb-launches-petition-for-local-console-servers","title":{"rendered":"Mweb launches petition for local console servers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watchful MyGaming forumites<\/a> spotted a petition organized by Mweb<\/a> which seeks to improve the state of online console gaming in SA.<\/p>\n

Console games are particularly badly affected by our lack of infrastructure and distance from globally dispersed gamers, whereas PC<\/a> gamers often have local dedicated servers which offer relatively lag free gaming.<\/p>\n

The petition is therefore specifically pushing for more local console servers.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s let the voice of the SA console gamer be heard!!\u201d writes Mweb on its Facebook<\/a> page. \u201cWe are tired of high pings playing on international servers when we still pay the full price for the game!\u201d<\/p>\n

As a way of singing the petition, Mweb asks that gamers tag themselves in images posted on the Mweb Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Exactly what Mweb plans to do with the petition is unclear, but we have fired through some questions to Mweb\u2019s gaming team to find out more.<\/p>\n

Mweb already hosts Gears of War 3 servers for Xbox 360<\/a> through the deal it has with game hosting platform service GameServers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Gears<\/a>

Gears of War 3<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe know there are a lot of South African gamers playing Gears of War 3, so we\u2019re 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,\u201d said Desmond Kurz, online gaming manager at MWEB.<\/p>\n

From the looks of things, the ISP wants to push for more local console game server options, so show your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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