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Games Master talks about FreeZone

johnathanThank you for visiting our site!  The site is just the beginning of a project that we plan to expand and develop extensively over time.

Access to our forums and game servers are free and open to the public.  Web African ADSL subscribers however will have the additional benefit of taking advantage of the cap savings that FreeZone enabled services offer.

So what exactly does FreeZone mean to you as a WADSL subscriber? It’s an area within the Web Africa network where any usage generated is not deducted from your available bandwidth.[...]It’s neither local nor international, it’s just FREE!  Since the gaming service was the FIRST offering to gain the benefit of FreeZone; I’ll use playing a game on our servers as an example to show how it works. I’m confident that we will see additional services gain this amazing offering from Web Africa down the line.

Let’s say you just purchased a new computer game and installed it, however you need to download around 6GB’s worth of patches and your available bandwidth on your ADSL account is around 150MB. A Web Africa customer wouldn’t need to top or buy a local account, they would simply access our media section; which is FreeZone enabled, download all the patches, install them and then connect to our WAGE servers to play.  The authentication on the international server would use the smallest amount of bandwidth, however the bandwidth used for actually playing on the WAGE servers is Free.  All of this means that you would still have 149MB left on your account after having used up 6GB’s or more of bandwidth through FreeZone!

Any concerns, questions or suggestions that you may have on improving this site or service, would be greatly appreciated and can be sent to my email address:  gamesmaster@webafrica.co.za

See you on the battlefield!

Regards GAMES MASTER Johnathan Enslin (A3R0D1NAM1X)

Categories: Gaming
  • johnathan

    Hi Nictron :)

    Thank you for your suggestions, input and kind words.

    WAGE will be expanded on significantly in the future and the service will be improved on an ongoing basis.

    Our first major expansion to the gaming service is the addition of the Web Africa hosted Steam content server which is included in the FreeZone for our customers

    Phase 2 is also currently being planned where the gamers can expect to see some great additions to the gaming site with features such as profile pages and detailed statistics which are currently being discussed and planned for. More on that later! We will however be listening and taking into account the needs of the community both during planning and implementation.

  • Nictron

    This implementation could change the face of South African gaming. It however all depends on your product spread and whether the content servers will include full gaming catalogs.

    I am wishing you the best and hope that you convert me over to your side :) I am watching with anticipation!

    Which digital distribution services will be supported or planned?

    - Steam?
    - Impulse?
    - EAGame?
    - XBox Live?
    - XBox's new Content download service?

    Regards

    Nico

  • CrAzYLeGs69

    Well, I haven't had the time to look around, but would it be possible to have a “FreeZone” logo on all of your services that supports FreeZone,

    example put up a FreeZone logo on your media content, so that customers will definitely recognize that they will be able to access it for free.

  • Johnathan Enslin

    Hi Nictron :)

    Thank you for your suggestions, input and kind words.

    WAGE will be expanded on significantly in the future and the service will be improved on an ongoing basis.

    Our first major expansion to the gaming service is the addition of the Web Africa hosted Steam content server which is included in the FreeZone for our customers

    Phase 2 is also currently being planned where the gamers can expect to see some great additions to the gaming site with features such as profile pages and detailed statistics which are currently being discussed and planned for. More on that later! We will however be listening and taking into account the needs of the community both during planning and implementation.

  • Johnathan Enslin

    Hi CrAzYLeGs69,

    Thank you for your feed back :)

    The FreeZone logo will be clearly displayed on all services that are applicable such as the contents downloaded from our media section of the wage website.

  • Balme101

    This is a fantastic benifit and im glad to be apart of it, i downloaded some content from the Media section to test it out and it works 100% realy great.

    I have one question tho Games such as TeamFortress 2 on IS and SAIX servers have Ranking systems … will WA be using somthing like that ? if you do it will make these services alot more popular and the word will spred fast.

    Thanx

  • Johnathan Enslin

    HI Balme101 :)

    Yes, absolutely! We will also be introducing stats shortly. There will be some additional features coming in phase II which I hope to see improve the stat system amongst other things. The planning and logistics for phase II are being drawn up and examined at present!

    More on that later! :D

  • Karacotak

    hmmmm, is there any chance on getting blizzard to pitch in.
    If we could get access to current battle.net and DOTA it would be a massive draw for people to subscribe.

    Talking to some private WOW servers could also help the spread of this great service.
    Other than that the games already offered are great. Hoping to join the COD4 soon.

    As my footnote : Thanks for implementing this i think its a great idea as do many people I know.
    However it hasn't really been advertised, I only found out by reading a small column in the NAG magazine maybe ask them to do an article they think its a great idea and have high hopes.

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