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@roguemat - Just your quarterly update request. :)

@roguemat - Thanks for the update. I'm serious about helping with getting servers this side.

@iceshadehq not yet, unfortunately.

@roguemat - Just my monthly followup... anything on SA servers yet?

@roguemat - Any update on the SA SoT Servers? It's been confirmed that Microsoft does have Azure servers in South Africa. I have a couple friends that are leaving SoT due to the ping issue. Trying to PVP or just defend your ship against players with like a 25ms ping, is just ridiculous. The SA SoT community is growing (even with people leaving), and with there being no PVE only servers, trying to PVP, in a PVP game with our ping is just defeating the object.

Here to add my lantern for a South Africa server!

This will be great rare. More ZA players will start playing again.

This would be the best thing to happen.
So many people i know will get back on the game!

Been playing this game on and off since 2019. Love it, South African servers will be a big benefit, not only for ZA but also other Southern African countries. Please Rare... ! High Latency is crazy for us on the US and EU servers at times.

@roguemat
The acknowledgedmet is greatly appreciated.
Thank you sincerely...

Lantern raised to The hopeful soon birth of SA servers

@roguemat - If you need server hosting partners, I know people that have datacentres that might be able to assist with local hosting in South Africa.

@roguemat Thank you for everything you do! We appreciate the response and will be patiently waiting- it will, without a doubt, be the best day of our pirate lives lol :)

South African Sailor here, awaiting with bated breath for a response :3

South African Sailor here, awaiting with bated breath for a response :3

Hey, just posting to acknowledge that we've seen this. Unfortunately there are a bunch of technical reasons why this isn't just a switch we can flick. So for the moment we'll look at fixing those issues before we can do anything concrete for SA servers.

Raising my Lantern for this one!

Raising my lantern for South African servers ;)

Raising my lantern for a South African Server!

It's hard to explain how excited me and my group of friends were when we read that we would get South African servers in the patch notes.

The disappointment of it not turning out to be true left us a very bitter taste.

Hopefully we can get servers as SOT is really reliant on good ping. We have more than enough players to populate a few lobbies! Arr

I quite like adventuring the open seas, but when it comes to pvp & lag, I may as well just burn my own boat down & give the other team my treasure... Hoping a local South African server would mean the difference between my entire crew fighting it out vs rage quitting because we can't even get a single hit in.

Raising my lantern as well.
Would love some local servers to improve ping.

Yip we’re waiting for more than a year already