MWeb GameZone has partnered with Multiplay, one of the top three game service providers in the world, to provide local servers for EA's free-to-play titles - Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play4Free.
This is the second time MWeb has partnered to bring leading games to SA, following a Gameservers.com arrangement to host servers for Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Desmond Kurz, MWeb's online gaming manager, says South African players were previously only able to play on international servers. With the resultant high pings, this would have made for poor gameplay in these shooter-based games.
“EA has taken some very cool games and made them available for free with Battlefield Heroes and Play4Free. MWeb GameZone is very excited about improving the gameplay experience for these popular titles for local gamers, as well as making gaming more accessible to new players through the browser-based interfaces of these games.”
As part of this partnership, public servers have been deployed in MWeb's Cape Town data centre.
In the near future, fans of the game will also be able to rent their own local SA servers from Multiplay for Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play4Free.
“We're very proud to undertake this venture with Multiplay, which has built up significant experience in the server hosting field in its 15 years' of operation,” says Kurz.
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