XBOX Live in SA

nah no chance of xbl in sa, like 10 people here playing online compared to the mighty states and the uk, plus with our bandwidth freedom hijacked by telkom, its no wonder bandwidth orientated service providers avoid this country like the plague.

if they keep ignoring us, well just do the same and pirate their games. the only way to make them pay for turning their backs on a loving gaming community with alot of potential.
 
saffakanera said:
nah no chance of xbl in sa, like 10 people here playing online compared to the mighty states and the uk, plus with our bandwidth freedom hijacked by telkom, its no wonder bandwidth orientated service providers avoid this country like the plague.

if they keep ignoring us, well just do the same and pirate their games. the only way to make them pay for turning their backs on a loving gaming community with alot of potential.
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? this is an old thread and your stats are way off...

We have over 2500 people actively playing on Live and the real figures are at least double that.

I also fail to see how pirating a game is in any way linked to Xbox live... Are you just trying to justify your theft?
 
For all your 'good' intentions saffa, you'd cut off your nose to spite your face, so to speak.

If you pirate, you'll never be able to connect to Live, while in the mean time, as Gav said, there are over 2000 SA 'honorary Poms" enjoying XBL quite happily.
 
GavinMannion said:
We have over 2500 people actively playing on Live and the real figures are at least double that.
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I for one would be added to that number if we had Live in this country - since I got the Xbox (month or two ago) been a headache to get points , buy a subscription etc - so I wonder how many others are out there like me who simply don't bother trying Live cause we just can't buy/use it easily enough :( *sob* I would dig to buy xbox points but alas .. stupid Xbox says my CC address doesn't match my company in the UK's address where the Xbox thinks it lives hehe
 
A question .... I see take2 has a 12 month gold account for about R800 (UK one), is it worth getting or not? Info appreciated :)
 
HI PPL ...is there anyone that can tell me the latest about live! coming to SA...

is microsoft saying anything?

are there plans put into place to bring live! to SA?

are there ppl currently trying to do something about bringing live!to SA?

does microsoft have any good reasons not to bring live! to SA or would it do them good to bring it here to SA? (from microsofts point of view...not a gamers point of view:))

thx ppl

(would be so great if it finally happened)
 
I think Live! will only get here when MS realise it's to their benefit. Unfortunately there are a large number of South Africans who have registered using UK address details, this must make it difficult for the decision makers to get a proper picture of how many Live!ZA users there are. It seems petitions and letters have been pretty futile up till now :(
 
@smb3, there are a lot of people working very hard in the effort to get South Africa given official live status.

Honestly the biggest problem seems to be our broadband penetration and cost of accessing the Internet.

In other countries it isn't an odd thing to download 3 gigs of games and a 4 gig movie. However Telkom would have a fit and charge the world for this 'honour'...

Until we have some decent competition, which in turn means better prices, I don't see Live coming to South Africa.
 
I think it's just a matter of time. Live! is more than an ethernet port and a website, there's servers and such that needs to be deployed and with broadband as it is here there are more lucrative markets to address first...like 1billion people in India and the oil rich princes of the Middle East ;)
 
If we do get Live! in SA would it count as local bandwidth?
 
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