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South Africa to get Battlefield servers in 2017

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We’ve just received a really surprising and welcomed press release:

I am very happy to announce that we will be deploying official DICE online game servers for the following regions in early 2017:

  • South Africa
  • Middle East
  • Hong Kong

These are but the first steps in our ongoing effort to keep supporting Battlefield 1 and our community.

Thank you very much for your feedback, we are listening.

The information comes courtesy of Alexander “Striterax” Hassoon, server producer at DICE.

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When Battlefield 1 was released, it had no local sserve support – which means that the game had sub-optimal, 200ms latency for many players. Obviously not ideal, but not a deal-breaker if you’re up for a bit of casual shooting fun. Here’s what we said of the lack of servers in our review:

“As a side note, I just want to mention that my entire experience with Battlefield’s multiplayer took place on European servers. To be perfectly honest, the lag itself wasn’t too bad, but it was hardly perfect. Battlefield 1 is still very playable however. Here’s hoping though that we get some South African servers in the near future. If I’m not mistaken, EA’s rental service will go up early in November.”

Unfortunately, the rent-a-server options didnt really extend to us – but if there will be servers implemented here, that may change. We’re still waiting to find out if these servers will be available for all players, or if they’ll be restricted to PC – but we have no reason to believe they will be. [update] it’s been confirmed the servers wil be for all platforms. We’ll keep you updated with whatever information we receive.

 

Last Updated: December 1, 2016

58 Comments

  1. Gavin Mannion

    December 1, 2016 at 08:36

    Wow, I may actually try BF1 again. The lag ruined it entirely for me.. that and the fact that it’s the same game as the last 3 years

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  2. Bruce Bielie

    December 1, 2016 at 08:39

    YAY!!! We got SERVERS! Now if only I can find R1K for a game…

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    • Espee Funsail

      December 1, 2016 at 09:05

      It’s more like R600…

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      • Bruce Bielie

        December 1, 2016 at 09:09

        Even if it was R5.00… It’s Xmas time, damnit! !!!

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      • Faux Grey

        December 1, 2016 at 09:33

        Not on sale anymore broski.

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      • Vorastra

        December 1, 2016 at 09:34

        It’s like 800 on PC.

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        • Mossel

          December 1, 2016 at 13:36

          It’s R666 on Origin. I bought it last week.

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    • Uberutang

      December 1, 2016 at 09:12

      It was R250 per player over Black Friday on xbox live with gameshare.

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      • b1nd3r

        December 1, 2016 at 09:16

        but xbox…..:(

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      • Bruce Bielie

        December 1, 2016 at 09:36

        I was on holiday drinking craft beer and having Waffles with banana and flake at the V&A that day! #NotBragging

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      • Bruce Bielie

        December 1, 2016 at 09:36

        I was on holiday drinking craft beer and having Waffles with banana and flake at the V&A that day! #NotBragging

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        • Uberutang

          December 1, 2016 at 09:45

          Nice, I was on a beach on Abu Dhabi, but used the app to get the deal 😛

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          • Bruce Bielie

            December 1, 2016 at 09:50

            Good for you!

            Meh. I do not play well with others. That is my problem. Hence even if you tell me this game has tap dancing Squirrels with Top Hats and cute little coats I won’t get it.

          • Andre Fourie

            December 1, 2016 at 10:09

            Squirrel might get offended.

  3. Andre Fourie

    December 1, 2016 at 08:47

    Cool stuff. I will buy the game when we have servers then.

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    • Viper_ZA

      December 1, 2016 at 09:05

      Agreed xD

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  4. Andre Fourie

    December 1, 2016 at 08:52

    And everyone goes ape shit in….

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  5. Matthew Figueira

    December 1, 2016 at 08:54

    :D/

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  6. Jarrod Lane

    December 1, 2016 at 08:56

    My assumption on this is PC servers only.

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    • Andre Fourie

      December 1, 2016 at 09:12

      Well that will suck.

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    • b1nd3r

      December 1, 2016 at 09:48

      well yes most servers are hosted on a pc…….

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  7. oomjan

    December 1, 2016 at 09:01

    Now the only thing we need from the community is to buy the game. Will hurt us more if they give us servers but hardly people playing on local servers

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    • bertus venter

      December 1, 2016 at 09:06

      Well guys, let the social media storms begin. The only way to get more people invested is by playing the game and sharing your experiences.Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. More South Africans needed on the platform. It was with these platforms that we got big hitters like jack frags and levelcap to raise awareness. No we just need to convince the rest of south africa to invest. If they do it could mean huge strides for our country regarding the gaming industry

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      • Magoo

        December 1, 2016 at 09:32

        I cannot and will not tell any person that BF1 is worth R900. I’d rather play on EU servers.

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    • Aries

      December 1, 2016 at 14:41

      It will help if they allow the servers to be for comp players as well, and the level of control they give with the servers

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  8. Vorastra

    December 1, 2016 at 09:31

    So are these specifically battlefield servers or general DICE game servers that will allow for other games like Battlefront?

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  9. Magoo

    December 1, 2016 at 09:31

    Yes yes very good very good.

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  10. Faux Grey

    December 1, 2016 at 09:33

    YAYYYYYYYYY!

    NO MORE 350MS PING!

    THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE

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    • Vorastra

      December 1, 2016 at 09:33

      You should have been getting 200 not 350 though…

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      • Faux Grey

        December 1, 2016 at 09:33

        Not with my ISP. (MTN)

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        • Vorastra

          December 1, 2016 at 09:35

          Damn son, that’s some bad routing from MTN.

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          • Faux Grey

            December 1, 2016 at 09:37

            It’s bloody awful.
            Takes an entire 400Ms just to do a DNS lookup from their servers.
            Worst ISP ever, but the only one that gives me cell coverage at home.

          • Vorastra

            December 1, 2016 at 09:41

            Have you tried Afrihost mobile? They piggyback off the MTN network but at least Afrihost will listen if you have an issue.

          • HvR

            December 1, 2016 at 11:46

            Well up to a point where they can help, anything mobile technically related will meand just a MTN ticket gets opened and coupled to your Afrihost ticket and there it will sit for months/years

          • Viper_ZA

            December 1, 2016 at 09:40

            I’d be gobsmacked if MTN actually knew what routing is…

  11. Kromas Ryder

    December 1, 2016 at 09:42

    Now I may actually buy it. Overwatch is so bad lately that I just can’t play it anymore so I need a good shooter with low latency.

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  12. Thorsten

    December 1, 2016 at 09:51

    Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now TF2 as well please. Will be testing that this weekend with the free2play trial 😀

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  13. Avithar

    December 1, 2016 at 09:58

    Yay we getting servers best Christmas gift

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  14. Craig "CrAiGiSh" Dodd

    December 1, 2016 at 10:10

    Still wont buy …

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    • Andre Fourie

      December 1, 2016 at 10:12

      I’m also not too worried. Can wait. Anyway Titanfall 2 > Berrelfield 1.

      Reply

  15. Andre Fourie

    December 1, 2016 at 11:50

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