WeeklySA_AdminSlug: In the world of online gaming sluggish internet connections cannot be tolerated
By Thuli Zungu
Gaming is more than simply pressing buttons on a controller – it represents a lifestyle where players advance to make money and ultimately find solace from life’s stresses in the gaming world.
Gaming in the South of the Sahara is experiencing its moment in the sun. According to data from research firm, Newzoo, game sales in Sub-Saharan Africa racked up over R15-billion in revenue in 2022 and are projected to exceed R17-billion by the end of this year.
Gaming is a serious business and optimising your experience requires a high-speed fibre connection to quickly download your favourite titles and ensure a lag-free online gameplay.
In the world of online gaming, seamless performance is essential. Lianne Williams, Marketing Director at Vuma, says gamers cannot tolerate lags or sluggish internet connections – they require a robust fibre connection that ensures a lag-free experience.
In support of this, Vuma provides gamers with the dependable, high-speed fibre connections they need to support their lifestyle.
“Over the past couple of years we have witnessed a significant uptick in the number of gamers, which means more people need fast, reliable fibre.
What is more, access to fast fibre has brought nostalgia to many of us, allowing us to replay some classic games from our childhoods,” says Williams.
Platforms like Steam, PlayStation Plus and Arcadespot.com offer extensive libraries of games from youth that can be downloaded for free or at a significantly reduced price.
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Back in 2009, there was no better way to get a history lesson than immersing yourself as the cloak-wearing, blade-wielding assassin, Ezio Auditore, in Renaissance Italy.
“Assassin’s Creed 2 took the world by storm by combining stealth, real-historical events and the exhilarating experience of climbing up and down buildings like a gymnastic spider.
Best of all, you got to do all that while saving the world from an evil secret organisation,”says Williams.
‘’When you sit back and think about it, 1999 was a wild year because we all worked ourselves into a frenzy when the Y2K scare made us believe the world might end because computers could not count past 1999’’.
Williams says one of the games that soothed that mass panic was Gran Turismo 2 (GT2).
“Building on the success of its predecessor, GT2 offered brilliant graphics and made us all feel like we could be Michael Schumacher. It set the standard for all the racing games that followed.”
She says when they were not racing around virtual tracks, kids around the world were enthusiastically mashing buttons, trying to get their digital David Beckham to do a bicycle kick. In the same year that Manchester United won the treble, FIFA 99 film became the first that looked and felt like it was not made in the 80s.
Couple that with the fact that it had one of the best video game soundtracks of all time and it was easy to see why this became an instant classic.
Williams says before 1995, one of the few places you could go to play video games was at a local corner stores that had a machine equipped with two buttons, a joystick and a slot for 50c coins.
Then the PlayStation arrived, and the world changed.
“Tekken 2 accompanied it, and suddenly everyone had that one friend with a PlayStation and everyone would descend on that person’s house to play Tekken 2 until the streetlights came on.
The rivalry and fights it caused were legendary, as friends quickly turned into rivals, blaming controllers for slow fingers. It may not have been the first of its kind, but Tekken 2 changed the game forever.”
