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Hello everyone!

Today is a great day for South Africans, not just for gamers but the country as a whole.

MS have just launched the Azure servers in our region, something we've been waiting for, for a long...long time.

So what does this have to do with Siege? You might ask.

Well if you rewind to Invitationals 2018, you'd remember the announcement for additional regions to Siege via Azure. Finally after a long wait, South Africans are excited again.

South Africans consist of a lot of the loyal player base, I myself have been playing since 2015 from the closed and open betas. There are many like me, and more pop in by the day.

Right now competitive South African Siege has never been better, with multiple tournaments being held with many teams despite the horrible lag we experience. Getting servers will only make things better for us and numbers will grow at an incredible rate I'm sure!

This is also great for the entire player base, we understand that high ping vs low ping is not great for everyone, but you have to understand we get the worst of it. I very nearly gave up siege, but the only thing that kept me going was the thought of local servers.

Please ubisoft! Give us a response?

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cloud-hosting/298352-microsoft-launches-data-centres-in-south-africa.html

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over 5 years ago - /u/Its_Epi - Direct link

Originally posted by Dionlewis123

In the Hotbreach podcast (skip to 47 minutes, that’s when they talk about the servers) a couple of days ago, when epi was asked about the servers that Ubisoft talked about in 2018, his response was something along the lines of they were waiting on Microsoft’s go ahead on the server being available, not only that but he said that the server must be stable enough in order for Ubisoft to use them.

So even with the server being live I still suspect that it will be a while before we actually see it in use with Rainbow 6

I guess it would depend on how you define "a while", but there is additional infrastructure required to prepare Azure for managing a game like Rainbow Six, beyond the standard Azure capabilities.

With this in mind, while there may be Azure servers live right now in South Africa, it does not mean that everything is ready for a Rainbow Six data center.

It is something we are still very much planning on doing, and are eagerly looking forward to providing an improved game play experience in South Africa.

over 5 years ago - /u/Its_Epi - Direct link

Originally posted by Its_Epi

I guess it would depend on how you define "a while", but there is additional infrastructure required to prepare Azure for managing a game like Rainbow Six, beyond the standard Azure capabilities.

With this in mind, while there may be Azure servers live right now in South Africa, it does not mean that everything is ready for a Rainbow Six data center.

It is something we are still very much planning on doing, and are eagerly looking forward to providing an improved game play experience in South Africa.

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