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EA Battlefield Play4Free and Heroes Servers Now Available in South Africa

by Desmond Kurz (bosbvok)  Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:12:00 AM

           
 
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MWEB GameZone is proud to announce a partnership with Multiplay, one of the Top 3 game service providers in the world. This partnership will provide local servers for the first time in South Africa for EA’s popular free-to-play titles Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play4Free. South African players were previously only able to play on international servers with the resultant high pings, which would have made for poor game play in these shooter-based games
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As part of this partnership, public servers have now been deployed in MWEB’s Cape Town datacenter. In the near future, fans of the game will also be able to rent their own local SA server from Multiplay for Battlefield Play4Free and Battlefield Heroes.
 
For those of you not familiar with Battlefield Play4Free, the game offers 32 player online multiplayer action featuring infantry, vehicles and aircraft. The game combines the very best of the Battlefield series, including:
  • Superb First-Person-Shooter action
  • Updates of classic maps and vehicles of Battlefield 2
  • The definitive classes and powerful weapons of Battlefield: Bad Company 2
  • Addictive RPG-style levelling and customization system of Battlefield Heroes, which allows players to customise both their characters and weapons.
  • All of this in your favourite internet browser!
  • Best of all, its FREE.
You can sign up for your free Battlefield Play4Free account on the Play4Free website

Battlefield Play4Free Trailer

 
Battlefield Heroes is also an online multiplayer shooter, offering fast-paced 3rd person action. Players can choose from a variety of customisable classes including the Heavy-Hitting Gunner or the Sneaky Commando.  Choose either the Royal or National army, and level up your character to obtain new items and abilities. Key features include:
  • Infantry, vehicle and aircraft combat.
  • Browser-based
  • Multiple classes with customisation and RPG-style leveling options
  • Built in match-making to ensure balance play.
  • And..its FREE too!
You can sign up for your free Battlefield Heroes account on the their website.

Battlefield Heroes Trailer

 
MWEB GameZone are very proud to have undertaken this venture with Multiplay, who have built up significant experience in the server hosting field in their 15 years of operation. South Africa will soon be added to Europe, US, Canada, Russia, Singapore and Australia as a location where players can rent their own Battlefield Heroes and Play4Free servers. Further announcements on this will follow soon.


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  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    Thanks for the kind words, Squeege! We're doing our best to promote gaming in SA, and helping those people who have the same goal.
     
  • Squeege
    Squeege
    Freaken brilliant. Love that MWEB is making great efforts in growing the gaming lifestyle in SA.
     
  • MarcoHDG
    MarcoHDG
    Im signing up now
     
  • MarcoHDG
    MarcoHDG
    Wooohoo!!
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    @CraftyCrow Just drop us a mail to gamesmaster_at_mweb.com and lets start talking. I think that would be the easiest.
     
  • CraftyCrow
    CraftyCrow
    @ Bosbefok, that would be great - on what Forum do I need to speak to you guys about doing some admin on these servers? I play everyday and spend a fair amount of time on these servers - would love to get more involved and keep the servers up to date with the newest maps etc. I am a BF vet and have been playing for a very long time! Looking forward to your reply, please post link to appropriate Forum! Thank you!
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    @CraftyCrow come chat with us on the forums - if you are passionate about BFP4F, we're happily see if we can work you in as an admin to keep those server pumping.
     
  • eXtremous
    eXtremous
    Battlefield Heroes isn't browser based - you just have to start the client from there. Same with Battlefield Play4Free! Otherwise you call Battlefield 3 a browser based game too? lol
     
  • CraftyCrow
    CraftyCrow
    Hey there, who can I speak to about some ideas for the servers? It seems that there are several servers with the exact same map rotations and settings - think there are various ways you can improve them... I think adding the new map (Mashtuur) would be a good start, and then maybe have one server that only runs Air Maps and on that only runs land vehicles, and one that is only for infantry... Then the last one can have same current rotation (with new map!) I am a player from SA that spends a lot of my personal time on these servers and would really like them to succeed, as well I am addicted to P4F. Please consider these improvements as I know you will get a lot more players actively on the servers... Have you noticed they are always empty since the new map came out, coz it is not on the rotation??? This game will need a dedicated admin from your side!!! Please!
     
  • Sunday Khau
    Sunday Khau
    Beautiful
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    @CraftyCrow Will check to see what other maps we can add into rotation!
     
  • CraftyCrow
    CraftyCrow
    Please add more maps to the rotation on any one of the Play4Free servers! Would be great to play Karkland and Dalian on local servers! Pretty please!
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    Not sure, Acti0nHank. We've been playing fine. Will check to see if there any server logs on the issue. Have you tried multiple server?
     
  • Acti0nHank
    Acti0nHank
    I get kicked ALOT from these new local servers for BFP4F :/ with no error message, why is thiiiiiiiiiis???? I wanna play so bad :'(
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    Server Details: Battlefield Heroes Multiplay :: BF Heroes #206 (16 Player Ranked) Multiplay :: BF Heroes #207 (16 Player Ranked) Multiplay :: BF Heroes #208 (16 Player Ranked) Multiplay :: BF Heroes #209 (16 Player Ranked) Battlefield Play4Free Multiplay - Battlefield P4F #200 (32 Player Ranked) Multiplay - Battlefield P4F #201 (32 Player Ranked) Multiplay - Battlefield P4F #202 (32 Player Ranked) Multiplay - Battlefield P4F #203 (32 Player Ranked)
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    ReAP3R_za Yup, some fancy footwork on our part. Thanks for the recognition.
     
  • ReAP3R_za
    ReAP3R_za
    Yep, partnership with a major international would be the only way of doing this, since EA's view on this is that "its not financially viable to give hosting rights to South African hosts". Only other way would have been this way. Well done MWEB, well done.
     
  • Gabe
    Gabe
    Key thing to take into consideration here is the fact that the South African gaming community, no matter how small (In comparison to Europe and North America) is being recognised and from it this is a result. Well Done MWEB on this superb awesomeness.
     
  • Mermaid
    Mermaid
    Thanks Multiplay :) Tried the server out. Me and my brothers game crashes on Oman at the same time. :/ Could you be so kind as to add all the maps to the rotation. This if for play4free Thanks :-)
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    @Mermaid! Thanks...took some time to get it right, but we've setup a nice relationship with Multiplay to make it happen for SA. Thanks to them too.
     
  • Mermaid
    Mermaid
    Thank you MWEB!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope we get lots of local players
     
  • bosbvok
    bosbvok
    @Oli We assume you mean for console?
     
  • Oli
    Oli
    When can we expect to have local BF3 servers? =D
     
  • Schmoe
    Schmoe
    how sweet is that!?!
     
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