The Ask
WARDOGS launched into Steam Early Access on 10 September 2026 to a huge player base — but South African players have been left out. There is no official server location on the African continent, and no confirmed way for the local community to run its own dedicated servers either. As it stands, South African players are forced onto European or Middle Eastern servers, routinely seeing 150–250ms+ ping in a 100-player tactical shooter where split-second reaction time decides fights.

We're asking Bulkhead and Team17 to:

1. Add an official South African (or regional African) server region for WARDOGS, hosted with the same DDoS protection and infrastructure standard as other regions.
2. Prioritise South Africa in the player-hosted dedicated server rollout announced alongside the BisectHosting partnership, so local communities can stand up their own low-latency servers.
3. Publicly commit to a timeline, even a rough one, so the community isn't left guessing during Early Access.

We're Not Just Asking — We're Offering to Help
Frostbyte Networks, a South African game server hosting provider, is willing to host the official WARDOGS South African server region at no cost to Bulkhead or Team17. We will meet whatever technical, security, and operational requirements the studio sets for dedicated server providers — network standards, DDoS protection, uptime SLAs, patching and update processes, anti-cheat integration, or any other criteria — so that adding a South African region requires no additional funding or infrastructure investment from the studio. This removes the most common blocker to regional expansion: cost. All we're asking for is the opportunity to plug into the existing server framework and serve the local community properly.

Why This Matters
South Africa has a large, committed tactical-shooter and FPS community, but has been consistently overlooked by major studios when it comes to server infrastructure — a pattern going back over a decade across titles like Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft. Local players end up either eating unplayable ping or building unofficial workarounds, while the same problem keeps repeating with every new release.

WARDOGS is still in Early Access. This is exactly the point in development where infrastructure decisions are cheapest to make and easiest to course-correct. A regional server or local dedicated-server support doesn't just fix ping — it grows the player base in an underserved market and builds long-term community goodwill during the window that matters most for an Early Access title's success.

What We're Asking You To Do
If you're a South African WARDOGS player — or you just believe regional server equity matters — please sign and share this petition. We'll be compiling signatures and comments to send directly to Bulkhead and Team17's community and support channels.