Am i able to play dayz in dubai ?

[karim.dong 0]

am i able to play dayz in dubai or it would be laggy? cuz im afraid there arent any servers in dubai

[boneboys 7988]

One of the Forum Staff is situated in your region, he is able to.

Your internet connection will be the deciding factor I believe.

 

I'll ask him for more details.

[pilgrim* 3514]

I guess you already have a good internet connection in Dubai? (I hear it is expensive?)

 

Choose five or six likely servers from the DayZ list  - for instance in Australia, and Germany (or Amsterdam), the Western USA, India, (and maybe Tokyo also)

I think those will be the "closest" on internet. Maybe someone on the forum can suggest better ?

 

-  then do a ping test to each of their IP's

 

From a poor connection in France I get 160 ping to etisalat.ae which is one main internet supplier in Abu Dhabi. (not "bad" for Sunday evening) I used to play the Mod on a server there, the ping changed a lot depending on the time of day - as soon as the Dubai business day started I lost the connection, so it was a 3 am thing,  Dayz Mod was playable at those times.

 

pilgrim

 

ps - content is government vetted so some internet stuff is blocked... but I know there are local pay-to-join servers than have all the usual FPS games on them, except DayZ (so there should not be a content problem?) - for DayZ you need an official DayZ server and you don't have any in UAE. Try ping testing DayZ servers.Good luck karim.dong

Edited February 3, 2015 by pilgrim

[pilgrim* 3514]

ps -  why not suggest to one of the DayZ Server Providers that a DayZ server in Dubai might be profitable?

 

Dubai was built (absolutely in the middle of totally nowhere) specifically as a world communications and international financial services hub..  its big, very flash, and very very expensive (as you know?) with hyper servers, telecoms and every kind of ultra- modern techno-link coming out of it's ears. That's what it's for. that's what it IS. It is 100% air conditioned and no-one has anything to DO whatsoever except work. It was BUILT to be the internet/ telecom /finance hub for the whole middle-east, yes?)

 

There is STRICTLY absolutely NOTHING to do there, except earn money.

 

Start with beer = illegal .. photos of girls in swimwear = illegal..  and go on from there.. 

Just nothing.. behind you is total desert (flat), in front of you is a total (flat) sea, and beach dress code is "strict" (what, no tie?) (you'd burn in 3 mins if you took off even your hat anyway). Is there mixed bathing?.. are you're joking? Does anyone even care?  No - because no one ever leaves the buildings.. Outside is NOT a class 3 planet.

 

I know there are dozens of hundreds of Brits in Dubai, and thousands of medium- to high-grade techno and financial support people from all over the world , including translators, sysops, system designers, doctors, financial dealers and their staff, admins, coders, keyboard operators, electricians, you name it - everything you need on a hyper spaceship - (which is what Dubai is, a techno generation-starship with an "extremely conservative" government that "listens in" ) plus people from every nation from USA to China is there, with English as the common language,  plenty of very smart 20-40 year-olds - all with nothing (ziltch) to do - its a place where you pay a lot, you get a lot.. and  you can include everything else to the list of things you can't do.

 

This is why computer games are popular in Dubai.

 

So being a world comms hub, maybe one of the DZ Server Suppliers would be interested in renting space there. ?? Propose it to them;, they may look into it. Hey, I'm Serious about this. Look at the location of the UAE, look at the range of high-earner people who are employed there (why else would they be there?) Look at the regional possibilities.. there are cinemas, there are internet games servers.. Any DayZ supplier already has the full portfolio of games on their server (or) server-space. Boneboys' friend/co-worker will be aware of the different sides - the technical, the entertainment, the multinational population, the extent of the region defined by practical gaming access (Persian Gulf + Egypt? W.Africa to Capetown, all of Western Asia ..?), and he will know of the legal/moral atmosphere, the competition, prices.

 

If they have already considered it - the DZ agreed Server Suppliers have stayed away because 1 ) It's too expensive or 2 ) the UAE govt doesn't like DayZ (hey, it doesn't like beer or men wearing shorts already, excepting under "special circumstances" - but it thinks CoD is OK, and all the other FPS standards- so ..who knows?)

Or maybe the SPs haven't thought about it ??: Not everyone realizes how MANY bored affluent (well-paid !!!! ) computer-savvy new-generation people from all over the world, are passing months at a time in Dubai, drinking coca-cola and watching movies and waiting for their next 2-month air pass back to the real world. Only exciting thing that happens apart from reading your bank account is maybe your super-air-conditioning breaks down - then you die as fast as in DayZ.

 

Worth sending a few e-mails? there are a LOT of expatriates in Dubai. There is a LOT of leading-edge computer power and server space  - and, as everywhere, they are in financial recession, so maybe more open to providing or renting out minor bits of hardware cheaper than they were a while ago. ??

 

Note - Dubai is also fast coming up as a world leader for ultra-wealth-tourism and extremely hyper-expensive real estate (minimum is mega-rockstar/multi-multi-millionaire level), so.. even more loose-end people and their kids?. All those hundreds and thousands of people and no DayZ ?

 

xx pilgrim

Edited February 9, 2015 by pilgrim