South African Servers please.

Servers for South Africa have been requested for years now. Is there any plan to add some South African, or even African servers to PoE?

The "best" connection option we have is London or some European server, which gives an amazing 180ms ping...we might as well be playing china servers on VPNs.

(As a side note: GGG is owned by Tencent, right? And 40% of Tencent is owned by a South African company.)

Ive been playing since 2014. I think I have seen this being asked 50 times at a guess and there has been talk of incorrect data centres etc. So many games much smaller titles in terms of player count than poe have servers in South Africa. One could argue there isnt enough players to make it worthwhile, but the netcode although 10x better than it was probably put a lot of SA players off playing the game at all because of ping. Would be nice to be noticed at all we even have some SA streamers at some point. I honestly dont think much will change but od be really happy to be wrong.

Hi Guys,

Don't know if anyone's going to be readin this thread. But i might as well try my luck.

We have a petition running: https://www.change.org/p/grinding-gear-games-south-african-path-of-exile-server?redirect=false

If we can get more people signing that, we might have a chance of getting servers.