Why SGS is no longer a viable server option for SA Gamers!

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I have been a SGS fan ever since I started gaming online.If I was playing on a GameZone(Mweb) server I would rant at the bad latencies(and anything else I could find wrong)and if I was on a SGS server I would Rave about the low pings(and anything else I could think of which included maps and everything else which made SGS stand out) I would happily call myself a SGS fan boy.In March 2007 I become a gaming admin for SGS and everything was going so well,all our emails and requests were answered on time by a wonderful woman called Amber who worked under Elyzium and handled some of the games including the one I was administering for(Half life 2:Death Match).This lasted a year when in march 2008 I was transferred from the game HL2DM to the new Team fortress 2.

After moving from HL2DM I was getting reports from HL2DM admins that emails were no longer being answered and issues on the server where not being handled properly which was very odd,It was then found(possible speculation) that Amber had left SGS and the only person handling requests was Elyzium who was spending time on the "More important games". Slowly but surly less and less things were being done at SGS which lead to more problems and what I believe was a overload of requests that could not be fulfilled,because of this some say that this was the reason why all the SGS admins were dismissed of their duties as of Christmas day 2009.

This however is not the reason I think SGS is no longer a viable option for us gamers! SGS is slowly losing gaming ground wile other ISP's like IS,Iburst,vodacom and more recently Web Africa(WAGE) are entering the market and pulling a lot of gamers away from SGS,The most compelling being IS(Internet solutions).I believe the reason for this is because of SGS's lack of replying to both admins and gamers emails and requests as well as their(dare I say it)old fashioned Rules of engagement which a lot of gamers do not agree with although I think is fine.

This however is also not the reason why I think SGS should be Left 4 dead but rather the recently announced
WAGE gaming which stands for Web Africa GamEs.Web Africa has a compelling service for gamers called FreeZone. If you have not heard of it already freezone is service from web Africa which allows you to do certain things online and not lose any bandwidth wile doing so and one of the freezone services is online gaming! If you using Web Africa as your ISP and you play on any WAGE Server no bandwidth will be deducted from your account.

Now I know what most of you are thinking"there is no ways I will be changing my ISP just so that I can play games online for free"which is just what I thought when I heard about it but you don't have to! Web Africa sells Prepaid accounts which include free zone,this means you can buy a 1GB prepaid account from Web Africa and only use that for gaming and if you only play on WAGE servers you will never have to pay to game online again!

Web Africa are also adding free downloads from their Steam content Server! This means that you can buy games on steam and download them off their content server and not have to pay for a single MB of bandwidth and a lot more services are expected to become available with freezone.

And that is the reason I am no longer a SGS fan and slowly moving over to WAGE. I will be buying a Web Africa account and start making WAGE my primary gaming servers of choice followed by SGS.
 
Personally I just play on whatever server has players, I don't really care who maintains it. Would obviously jump onto one with better latencies, but that's probably where everyone else would be too.

I do think that many many people will hop over to WA 'cos of the FZ, even though you could just get 1gb of prepaid a lot of people would end up using them for everything 'cos of the convienience of being with one ISP.
 
The do host a number of games, COD WaW, COD 4, HL2DM etc etc... not to sure bout ModernWarfare 2....
 
Uncapped solutions are becoming cheaper which would pretty much make Wage gaming servers pointless.
 
I get the feeling the OP was basically just ADVERTISING for WEB AFRICA.

I hate it when people do that! Really!
 
Is that a proven fact?? is it on all their servers? so as long as its a wage server, free gaming with WebAfrica account?

yes i use the 1gb pre paid and any wage server is 100% free. i cant wait for the steam content server, thats gonna be amazing.
 
Yo Splinter, Jax here.


I agree with everything you say and I think WAGE is going to eventually dominate the gaming scene in ZA.

As for SGS...well...dare i say it....Elyzium needs to be replaced, period, or SGS will die die die!
 
surely webafrica would be screwing themselves over by doing this? as now people won't need to buy the data top ups anymore??
 
WAGE = FTW. Steam download that dont use bandwidth. Finally someone cares about the poor SA gamers :D
 
surely webafrica would be screwing themselves over by doing this? as now people won't need to buy the data top ups anymore??

Everyone does not game, and there are tons of other users with 30gig accounts etc for downloading. I doubt they have anything to worry about.
 
Is that a proven fact?? is it on all their servers? so as long as its a wage server, free gaming with WebAfrica account?
This is correct if you play on any WAGE server with a Web Africa account that supports free zone then the bandwidth you use on any WAGE server will not be deducted from your account!

Uncapped solutions are becoming cheaper which would pretty much make Wage gaming servers pointless.
I disagree with you Kyubi! I believe that untill you can get a uncapped 4MB line for under R250 there will always be room for WAGE.

Remember you are theoretically paying R70 for uncapped gaming untill that 1gb expires! On the Web Africa Web site they say nothing about 1gb Prepaid expiring but StrontiumDog on mygaming says it expires after a year!if this is true then you paying under R6 a month for uncapped gaming which is a no brainier!

Yo Splinter, Jax here.


I agree with everything you say and I think WAGE is going to eventually dominate the gaming scene in ZA.

As for SGS...well...dare i say it....Elyzium needs to be replaced, period, or SGS will die die die!
I some what agree with you! Elyzium was the man that started SGS but he in my opinion is now over qualified for the position and I feel he thinks its more of a side task for him. SAIX Need to get a new L5 Admin and let Elyzium do something more worthy of the skills he possesses.

See you online Jax :) hopefully more on a WAGE server from now on!
 
My reply on mygaming

Point noted :)

I did not know I could use a prepaid account for gaming as well. I thought I could only use a prepaid account for the steam content server.
 
Point noted

I did not know I could use a prepaid account for gaming as well. I thought I could only use a prepaid account for the steam content server.
And apparently more services are coming to freezone in the future!

I am really exited about the steamcontent server,You can get games for such good prices off steam and if you don't have to pay for the bandwidth I will be buying a lot of games :whistle:
 
I am waiting for it to take off :)

I bought a CSS complete pack over the holiday with the steam Sale :D I am also waiting for for my copy of orange box to arrive then I will download everything with steam server :)
 
Dedicated servers (even though they are still the best way to play) are dying anyway.

MW2 has taken a huge bite out of the local server community.
 
Only thing interesting is the content server, imo. Local bandwidth is cheap enough. Plus, SGS have ranked servers for games such as BF2 and just a greater number of games and servers. Not much reason to game on WAGE yet, much less exclusively since people like choice and different server setups, and so they will always play on servers hosted by other companies anyway.
 
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