Why SGS is no longer a viable server option!

I have been a SGS fan ever since I started gaming online.If I was playing on a GameZone(Mweb) server I would rant at the bad latencies(and anything else I could find wrong)and if I was on a SGS server I would Rave about the low pings(and anything else I could think of which included maps and everything else which made SGS stand out) I would happily call myself a SGS fan boy.In March 2007 I become a gaming admin for SGS and everything was going so well,all our emails and requests were answered on time by a wonderful woman called Amber who worked under Elyzium and handled some of the games including the one I was administering for(Half life 2:Death Match).This lasted a year when in march 2008 I was transferred from the game HL2DM to the new Team fortress 2.

After moving from HL2DM I was getting reports from HL2DM admins that emails were no longer being answered and issues on the server where not being handled properly which was very odd,It was then found(possible speculation) that Amber had left SGS and the only person handling requests was Elyzium who was spending time on the "More important games". Slowly but surly less and less things were being done at SGS which lead to more problems and what I believe was a overload of requests that could not be fulfilled,because of this some say that this was the reason why all the SGS admins were dismissed of their duties as of Christmas day 2009.

This however is not the reason I think SGS is no longer a viable option for us gamers! SGS is slowly losing gaming ground wile other ISP's like IS,Iburst,vodacom and more recently Web Africa(WAGE) are entering the market and pulling a lot of gamers away from SGS,The most compelling being IS(Internet solutions).I believe the reason for this is because of SGS's lack of replying to both admins and gamers emails and requests as well as their(dare I say it)old fashioned Rules of engagement which a lot of gamers do not agree with although I think is fine.

This however is also not the reason why I think SGS should be Left 4 dead but rather the recently announced
WAGE gaming which stands for Web Africa GamEs.Web Africa has a compelling service for gamers called FreeZone. If you have not heard of it already freezone is service from web Africa which allows you to do certain things online and not lose any bandwidth wile doing so and one of the freezone services is online gaming! If you using Web Africa as your ISP and you play on any WAGE Server no bandwidth will be deducted from your account.

Now I know what most of you are thinking"there is no ways I will be changing my ISP just so that I can play games online for free"which is just what I thought when I heard about it but you don't have to! Web Africa sells Prepaid accounts which include free zone,this means you can buy a 1GB prepaid account from Web Africa and only use that for gaming and if you only play on WAGE servers you will never have to pay to game online again!

Web Africa are also adding free downloads from their Steam content Server! This means that you can buy games on steam and download them off their content server and not have to pay for a single MB of bandwidth and a lot more services are expected to become available with freezone.

And that is the reason I am no longer a SGS fan and slowly moving over to WAGE. I will be buying a Web Africa account and start making WAGE my primary gaming servers of choice followed by SGS.

Half life 2:deathmatch and other steam games for free

Half-life 2: deathmatch is an online multiplayer first person shooter game that can be bought on steam for $9.00 but you can also get it for free.

ATI and nvidia are now giving their users HL2DM and some other great steam games for free.

If you are an ATI user you can get the following games for free:
Half-life 2: lost cost
Half-life 2: deathmatch
To get these games all you need to do is go to this link and follow the on screen instructions: http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

If you are a nvidia user you are really lucky, you will get the following games for free:
Portal first slice
Half-life 2: deathmatch
Half-life 2: lost cost
Peggle extreme
To get these games all you need to do is go to this link and follow the on screen instructions: http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/

I have tried both of these offers out and they both work!!, if you have a steam account already and have a lot of games on the account then I suggest making a new one.

The Price of games! Is it all worth it?

I walked into a music store and looked at the latest games they had on their fully stocked shelves! I looked at the games I was interested in and would quickly shove them onto the shelves after looking at the price. I can’t see myself buying a game for R450 that I might not enjoy! The reason why I brought this up is because I see myself as a hard core gamer or a avid gamer! I mainly play PC but we have a Nintendo WII.

When WII came out here in sunny South Africa the games were dirt cheap.R300 for a wii game was the average price and obviously games like super Mario were more ranging in at about R600,For those of you that don’t know R10 Is 1$US. WII games are now on average R450, that’s $45.00! I don’t think that’s a good price for games! That’s too expensive .Now while I was rummaging through the games I found a game called PopStar Guitar, This game is just like Guitar hero but it doesn’t come with a full sized guitar but comes with a clip-on button thing for the wii remote. The price of this game was only R100 which is $10! For a WII game that’s Dirt cheap!

I got home and check the price online and found I GOT A GREAT DEAL! The game online is R450,and I only got it for R100.But this game is not worth the normal price tag, it’s boring and really doesn’t have anything kick ass about it. Although I have not played the game for more than an hour I don’t even know If I really want too!

I knew I was most probable not going to play it again but for the price of only R100 I would buy it. What if games were cheaper? would you buy more games even if you didn’t know if you would enjoy it? Well if I had to answer that question I would have to say yes!

If games were cheaper for both consoles and PC I would buy much more games and I would not care if they were so crap! Games should become cheaper and I can almost guarantee people will stop pirating games and more games will be bought meaning the game creators will make more money and then everyone is happy!