Server providers for South-Africa

This is great news! Going to try it out in a few minutes!

Been playing POE for about 8 years and this is by far the single best thing that has happened!!!! Thanks GGG!!!!!!!!!!!

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Deadmanza wrote:

Been playing POE for about 8 years and this is by far the single best thing that has happened!!!! Thanks GGG!!!!!!!!!!!

lol, I only just really started playing thanks to the news about the server, you veteran guys must be blown away by this! Awesome!

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Fitzy_GGG wrote:

I've spun up some very limited testing in South Africa so we can explore the feasibility of some different options.

You can access this by typing SouthAfrica into the gateway selection box.

• There's only around 100 instances of capacity there currently.
• Don't expect it to be reliable - caveat emptor.
• We may take it down periodically or change things around.
• It's set to put new instances on Frankfurt when it's full or offline.
• This is very early/preliminary. Anything permanent (if this even happens) will be a while away, so temper your expectations.

I've been playing PoE since Open Beta, and love it as a whole, but do tend to take breaks from the high ping frustration, the game plays sooooo much differently on these test servers. It feels amazing.

I've dropped a fair amount of cash on PoE, packs and just coins. but I'd have bought much more for a smoother game. I skipped many leagues as a burnout from the laggy experience at times.

The gameplay difference is night and day... so this is what first world PoE is like...

This is fantastic news! I can't wait to play!

Thanks GGG!

It has made a massive difference. Dying feels fair now and I can finally dodge reliably!

Tested and working like a charm thanks GGG. I get between 15-20ms ping. Very happy was between 180-220ms!

Man it feels good to experience PoE at local latency! Really hoping this pans out and we get a South African gateway permanently!

Thank you GGG and Fitzy for taking the time to explore this.

PS: Now I can't blame deaths on latency, and it feels good.

This is amazing! Can honestly say this is one of the best improvements to my PoE experience since I started playing in closed beta. PLEASE make this permanent!

I never thought that I would see the day that we get our own servers.

Thanks GGG for this, we're all extremely happy and excited.