1 March 2010 Broadband provider iBurst has launched iGame Unlimited as the premium open gaming platform for South Africa¹s online gaming community.
For only R99 per month, iBurst subscribers on the new any new iDSL package will have access to one of the fastest, most responsive gaming servers in South Africa, with a host of extra features to make online gaming better, easier and more rewarding. The biggest advantage is that for iGame Unlimited subscribers, all traffic to the iGame server is free‹no longer counting towards your normal bandwidth cap.
The iGame platform is open to all gamers in South Africa, connecting via any ISP, and has already become one of the largest gaming communities in the country, attracting gamers of all ages. iGame Unlimited is available
exclusively to iBurst iDSL customers to give them a host of exclusive
benefits. For players that are not iBurst Wireless customers and want to
subscribe to iGame Unlimited, they can pick up a 80 MB iDSL account for only R19/month extra.
iGame Unlimited users not only have uncapped gaming bandwidth, but get
preferential status with guaranteed game play even when the servers get
busy, will receive priority support on the iGame community, and will be
automatic entered into monthly prize pools.
³We recently redesigned our iDSL offering for ADSL users to bypass Telkom’s routing infrastructure and connect directly in to iBurst¹s core. This offers gamers a better connection with lower latency (responsiveness) and jitter (consistency). Now, with iGam Unlimited, gamers can play to their heart’s content using one of the best gaming servers around, without worrying about using up their bandwidth, says Steve Briggs, Executive Head of Commercial iBurst.
iGame is one of South Africa’s most successful gaming communities, with an active community support network provided by Nanogames, and offering a wide range of popular titles. It hosts multiplayer servers for popular PC games like Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty 5: World at War, Team Fortress, Wolfenstein, Quake4, Track Mania and Left 4 Dead 2. Gamers simply require a legal copy of the game and the iGame game server IP address.
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes, iBurst have suffered from some bad publicity lately (more on Hello Peter).
You will know what I have to say about this… after my experience with iBurst I am moving over to DSL.
All of those lovely enticing features and benefits will be totally useless when iBurst eventually either cuts you off, or messes up your account. And sadly, as a large majority of iBurst users can tell you, this WILL happen at some point.
A big fat #FAIL and an even bigger AVOID!
Ye Rox, I know your opinion and I also know that it’s valid. iBurst have offered to send me a 2 month free trial of their Internet, so I’m going to give it a look and see what it’s all about none-the-less..
Free trials are always good, and aside from their main issues, they are at least pretty fast. It’s annoying as my area is almost perfect coverage too.
If they could only jack up their service, they would be a lot better.
Absolutely, the basis of their operation seems great, but we all know that it’s service that counts at the end of the day..