April 2019 - last edited April 2019
I find it funny how in interviews they always mention how they care about the community feedback but in all honesty they don't give a damn. The only thing they care about is the feedback big streamers give because if they keep streamers happy they make more money in the end. We have been begging for some form of feedback regarding South African servers and not 1 reply from anyone at EA/Respawn. Selecting London servers (190 ping) doesn't even work anymore. Me and my friends constantly get grouped with Russians and the latency is absolutely horrendous.
Please EA/Respawn give us a simple YES or NO answer, this is ridiculous.
June 2019
Me & my son play Apex every single day for hours on end, from South Africa. Our other squad mates is in Namibia. We experience the latency issue on every single match, once you see a player with more than 1000 kills you know that not only does that player have skills, but he / she also takes a hell of a lot of bullets to just break the shield, never mind knocking him / her down...no matter your skill, you should take damage as the rest of us. The reason is that they have a very low ping, in other words our hits don't register as fast as their hits due to their very low ping rates, due to their local servers, it's just unfair. Also when we jump as a squad, and the random is from over seas, they always hit the ground a good 2 seconds or more faster than we do, and we all go straight down, the same as him / her. We've won several championships, so we are good enough, but at times we will get players that even after emptying a full spitfire extended mag on them, hitting them the whole time, they still manage to turn and drop you with three shots, instantly shredding the purple armor and purple helmet, is that fair? The hits just don't register or just don't register as fast as theirs, resulting in the server deducting health more quickly from me, even though I have shot and hit first on my side, ultimately resulting in me being downed. It's sad that I don't see ANY response from EA nor Respawn on the matter of local SA servers, I love the game, I really do, but it's not a level playing field at the moment.
June 2019
Hi, Legends!
We truly value your feedback on latency when you're playing. As gamers we can all relate how tough it can be to win and have fun when lag is present. The team is committed to making server improvements going forward, however we don't have any specific details to share around that or any information on whether there are intentions for improvements in your region. If we hear any developments we'll let you know right away!
August 2019
August 2019
I'm afraid there aren't any updates we can share around additional servers right now. Hopefully it happens though and at some point we have servers across the entire globe with even more players joining us in Kings Canyon.
We'll make sure large threads like this are pinged up the chain for you.
September 2019
It would be awesome if we could get our own servers here in SA, there is a petition with almost 15000 signatures on already, so you can see there is a large community for apex here.
September 2019 - last edited September 2019
The reason why they can't run their software on South African soil is because there are probably laws against hosting these kind of services for ZA citizens. They could not host here even if they wanted to because for SA to allow the software to be hosted here they would need to know what the software is doing to its "test subjects". Since that will never be divulged or that there exists no framework for such disclosure, they cannot run the software.
Most foreign 1st world countries makes it perfectly legal to run mind control experiments on it's citizens, I hope as long as it can be argued or demonstrated that these mind games lead to good outcomes. Actually, all mind control is bad.
It is really that simple.
PS - If you, respawn, have no idea what I am talking about you need to start installing certificates for communication. Because I have noticed that if I use VPN, my first game on a new IP does not play games with me. The karma engine is turned off and I hear new voices on comms sometimes. Subsequent games however are always with 2 teammates that pretend to be Russian, but are in fact CIA or NSA or Blackwater or something american.
But I an almost sure you know what I speak of. I can smell caustic's stink a mile away.
September 2019
Sup boys.
October 2019
For one i work for the largest ISP\ Telecommunications company in South Africa,there is nothing that prevents them from launching a server here besides politics,financial gains vs losses ,laws and regulations,red tape of business ,however if that was the case bf3,bf4 etc would not have private hosting rights here for us, the simple fact is that ea is using data hubs that the company use to host players at certain points around the world where they either own them ,have trusted business arrangements,have no intention to do it here ,it also has nothing to do with mind control bs side note VPN is a tunnel where only you and the company can hear\see each other so unless your hacking into someones game or EA's database there is no way you would hear such things or experience lookouts from a vpn a vpn if used correctly should only improve the latency due to the fact your getting connected to that server via a less mapped out connection,hence why people use programs like wtfast etc, unless its in violation to EULA agreements you want connect ,so unless your running a software that the Protection engine's AI doesn't like so it wont connect you period like corrupt window files! there are just laws that pertain,and other red tape in business like the consumer rights that prevents them from having a server(s) here or they do not wish to agree to the laws that are in south Africa,have no intention of launching the game here as we play on those servers already
then there is the thing that here loot boxes are see as online gambling and because there are minors playing they will not license them the rights to host here,that and the cost of setting up a database is no small cost its in the millions ,so its not worth there effort or time for simple factors like where our player base is like max 20000 at best maybe 100 000 ,while places like Australia \Europe\America have millions that alone should make it obvious as to why they are not till ea stands to correct me there,then there is the fact that Africa is seen as a high risk to security\piracy\patency violations and they probably don't want server or database breaches , I Don't care if your trolling but think of your ramifications of rambling about nonsense that supposedly implicates Bureaus ,that may completely compel them not to even think of starting one here,personally i would like to see EA open a hub here but until they officially respond we will just have to wait patiently to hear their decision till then get a better system or internet connection 150ms -200ms is still doable you wont be in the top of the world but you still will be able to play and have fun you can be grateful that its a not a region locked game
Please can a moderator lock this thread as its pointless and will only fuel trolls like 2nd Rogu4e in the future
October 2019
15000 signatures is not enough WE need Millions .. been 2 year already on got 15 k ...The truth is NO Company will Invest in South Africa's Terrible and Unstable economy as long as we have 1 digit IQ , Ex criminal , terrorist running it