Highly competitive South African gamers are at the mercy of game studios when it comes to getting a good online playing experience.
Eight of the most popular PC and console games in the world have no local server options in South Africa, a MyBroadband analysis has found.
Gamers in North America, Europe, and Asia typically have a range of servers to choose from that will, at most, be within a few hundred kilometres from their homes. Latency is directly related to the distance between a user’s PC and the server hosting the application.Although substantially faster than satellite connections or old copper cables, the vast distance still creates a tangible delay.While that might seem insignificant for most use-cases, it is a big problem for gaming.
Performance hosting provider i3D.net previously told MyBroadband that hosting a gaming server in South Africa was not a simple matter. They could either offer localised servers that can result in gamers having to wait long in lobbies but enjoy low ping, or connect them to high latency overseas-based options that guarantee they will load into a game quickly.MyBroadband compiled a list of 25 popular online games to see how many offered official servers in South Africa.
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