{"id":30506,"date":"2012-01-11T14:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30506"},"modified":"2012-01-11T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:08:26","slug":"sgs-implements-country-kicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30506-sgs-implements-country-kicker","title":{"rendered":"SGS implements \u201ccountry kicker\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the benefits of <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC gaming<\/a> is the presence of locally hosted dedicated servers for games such as Battlefield 3, Bad Company 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.<\/p>\n<p>These allow South African PC gamers to play without experiencing the latency which is associated with gaming on international servers.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, SGS has implemented a country kicker, which effectivly limits its servers to gamers located in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Only players from the following countries may now connect to SGS servers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Namibia<\/li>\n<li>Botswana<\/li>\n<li>Mozambique<\/li>\n<li>Zimbabwe<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho<\/li>\n<li>Swaziland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Players trying to connect from outside of these countries will receive a message stating \u201cGame Disconnected: you were kicked by an admin\u201d and be told that they may not connect from their location.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ccountry kicker\u201d 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\u2019s servers.<\/p>\n<p>iGame implemented the same measure over a year ago, and also only allows local IP ranges to connect to its servers.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gaming.do.co.za\/articles\/localnews\/sgs_introduce_country_kicker.htm\" target=\"_blank\">DoGaming <\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAIX Games Services moves to block international hackers on its Battlefield 3 servers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":29841,"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":[2,3],"tags":[49,21,459,1714,1599],"class_list":["post-30506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-battlefield-3","tag-headline","tag-igame","tag-saix-games-services","tag-sgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30519,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/revisions\/30519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}