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Major game servers offline in South Africa

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Electronic Arts has failed to explain why some of its game servers in South Africa went dark two weeks after a quadruple undersea cable break impacting Internet services in the area.

Popular football game EA Sports FC’s servers in Johannesburg are offline, and players are seeing their game traffic routed to EA game data centres in the Middle East.Dropping Fifa from the game’s title and in-game content comes after EA and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ended a decades-long partnership last year.

Reports suggest that Fifa wanted EA to pay a $250 million annual licencing fee to use its brand. The total cost of the four-year deal would have been $1 billion . Unfortunately, it simply used the submarine cable breaks as an excuse without explaining the delay between when the cables went down and the server outage.

 

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