Greetings, fellow players and hopefully Developers. I bought Overwatch during the first Anniversary event and fell in love with the game and rarely experienced any problems. I thought about reaching out to the player base and community to bring up a possible issue with the servers. I am from South Africa and since the only servers are American, European and Asian we as Africans have to connect to the one where we can play our best with the least latency possible which would be the European server. Even though the case the ping is usually around between 200-300 MS with a decent internet connection which completely takes competitive modes out of the question, and 150 on high speed fiber optic internet which honestly is pretty bad compared to the local European players. I would like to inquire about this issue, if it was considered or ignored in general. Thank you for taking the time of day to read through this.
Hopefully they will do something about it but I doubt that. I feel your pain.
Not a large enough playerbase for them so it’s unlikely to ever happen.
They have internet in Africa? (Outside Nigeria, obviously)
I travel a lot. Mainly in countries that reside in the european union. Its part of my job. And i have to say the connection some countries get is just laughable, up to the point that i really think they need to stop selling the game in them or open up a server so that they can actually play the game.
Gona list some european union countries that just can’t play the game as it was intended to thanks to having over 100 pings (with 100 MBS internet speed), and i’ve made topics about this on this EU and US side of the forums but nothing really happend with them since no one cares i geuss.
So the countries list goes like this: Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and countries relatively close to them that arent in the european union like Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro etc. The problem is that this countries have 60-100+ ping with the best internet that money can get you on top of using programs that enable you to be on the best path for the game servers. I really wish that they did something about this at times when i have to stay in them for my work, i basically can’t play the game. Really wish that they just inveted in a server insted of investing is ads to sell there game in there. I really hopes that something happens since for a “game of the year” & “best selling game” this is a total joke. Servers and Server maitancance are really cheap its 2019 for the love of god. Meanwile at the UK i have 20-30 pings with hotel internet…