So Origin cancled my Titanfall Pre-order

[Fulcrum29]

How is Steam not scalable at the moment?

What do Microsoft's other offerings in SA run on? I mean, Office 365 is (partially) hosted here right?

I'm sure its not as easy as a server two. But if MS has any hopes of eventually selling the XBO here, they will need to bring Azure out here. Plus I'm sure other services depend on it. And it could be a competitive offering, say for companies currently using EOH or something similar.

Maybe a better question is why have MS not brought Azure here already?

Don't have to go into detail:

Live scalability, altering an active server busy processing and general utilisation. No, 365 is not hosted partially here, we connect to Dublin.

To answer your last question, SA do not meet the capacity required by these entities. MS and Google set their deployments between 2(3)-5 years. Two other large entities, one being appreciated by the MyBB community had withdrawn due to them not meeting the requirements, the one company will only re-evaluate in 2018.

How much do you think a 1:1 4TB (up/down) connection costs with international breakout and peering between data centres, excluding the data? This is only a part in the broadband as their will be additional broadband requirements, like secondary backbones etc. Then we have the data centre requirements, CDN's, hardware, employment etc. etc. etc.

Compare the above with what you can obtain in the US, Europe and Asia.

Do note that SA broadband plans are prolonged...

 

[Fulcrum29]

No Microsoft have by offering a cloud service that isn't replicated in every region where it's meant to be used.


This is good news and I'm glad it's seeing international exposure so that Microsoft can wake the **** up.


If Google can do it, so can Microsoft.

Google and MS are pretty much on the same level in regard with regional coverage.

 

[Fulcrum29]

To be honest, the sooner PoPI is on the way, the sooner certain entities will be pushed to SA as this will pave the way. EMEA is very small without this continent (due to where certain abroad entities conduct business), do note that these companies may possibly deploy in Nigeria or Kenya, then SA.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Google and MS are pretty much on the same level in regard with regional coverage.

Wat?

We have local nodes for Gmail, Google Docs and presumably every other part of Google's cloud infrastructure.

We have NOTHING for Azure.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Wat?

We have local nodes for Gmail, Google Docs and presumably every other part of Google's cloud infrastructure.

We have NOTHING for Azure.

Where, who is hosting Google in SA? Strange though when we had an international outage that Google was completely dead. The last time I checked, Google (and their services) is by no means within PoPI compliance.

 

[Sneeky]

Me too

Dear Origin User

Thank you for pre-ordering Titanfall on Origin. However, after conducting recent online tests for Titanfall, it was found that the performance rates in South Africa are not as high as needed to guarantee a great experience, so the Titanfall team has decided not to release Titanfall there at this time. We have cancelled your pre-order and you will not be charged. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Titanfall’s online performance will continue to be monitored closely. If anything changes regarding Titanfall’s release in South Africa, we will let you know.

- Origin Team

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Where, who is hosting Google in SA? Strange though when we had an international outage that Google was completely dead. The last time I checked, Google (and their services) is by no means within PoPI compliance.

So these ping times are not local then?

Pinging www.google.co.za [74.125.233.95] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=53

Compared to the MS equivalent:

Pinging www.bing.co.za [204.79.197.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115

 

[Batista]

Game looks meh :/ So over these run around shoot everything that moves types (COD,BF).
KZSF

 

[Fulcrum29]

So these ping times are not local then?

Pinging www.google.co.za [74.125.233.95] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=53

Great, answer my question with another question.

Answer me this Mike, did Google work with the international outage, especially with those the last time on Mweb (Seacom)?

However, Google do deploy their Google Global Cache (GGC) in both SA and Kenya regionally. The service is still dead without any international connectivity, so is google.co.za.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Where, who is hosting Google in SA? Strange though when we had an international outage that Google was completely dead. The last time I checked, Google (and their services) is by no means within PoPI compliance.

I'm not sure who exactly hosts it.

But latency suggests it's definitively local and I recall reading about it being hosted in Cape Town a few years ago.

IS maybe?

 

[Batista]

So these ping times are not local then?

Pinging www.google.co.za [74.125.233.95] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=53

Compared to the MS equivalent:

Pinging www.bing.co.za [204.79.197.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115

here is mine,

Pinging www.google.co.za [74.125.233.87] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.233.87: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.233.87: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.233.87: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=51
Request timed out.

Pinging www.bing.co.za [204.79.197.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=112
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=186ms TTL=112
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=112
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=220ms TTL=112

 

[Fulcrum29]

So these ping times are not local then?

Pinging www.google.co.za [74.125.233.95] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.233.95: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=53

Compared to the MS equivalent:

Pinging www.bing.co.za [204.79.197.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115
Reply from 204.79.197.200: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=115

Azure also have local caching in line with services such as upload, 365 etc., although it have nothing to do with bing.com.

 

[Kosmik]

If we can host BF3 and BF4 servers, why not Titanfall? Surely Origin can put a foot in?

 

[Fulcrum29]

If we can host BF3 and BF4 servers, why not Titanfall? Surely Origin can put a foot in?

Should they “be able to temporary” deploy independent dedicated servers, yes. The problem is that the game is calculatedly integrated on Azure like the physics engine, AI, dynamics etc. FORZA 5 is also heading this direction…

I also understand the Respawn went with this route due to them being unable to deploy a large server network globally. The decision with Azure I think is based on the scalability to expand the servers as the game expands.

 

[Flash Hazardous]

Hi guys I've created a petition to Respawn and EA to give South Africans the CHOICE to play Titanfall. Your support would be much appreciated:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...tm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_created

 

[StoneCold]

The game is multiplayer only.

True, but it does feature campaign multiplayer which tells the story of Titanfall.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Azure also have local caching in line with services such as upload, 365 etc., although it have nothing to do with bing.com.

Do you have any evidence of this?

I know folks operating rather large university networks with Office365 and their biggest problem is no Azure replication.

When international link goes down they are dead in the water.