According to Electronic Arts, DICE's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is enjoying healthy sales at retail. So healthy, in fact, that the publisher has passed along a few numbers to prove it.
The first? The publisher says the game is "on pace" to be the best selling title in March; there have been over 2.3 million units sold-through in North America and Europe. Good for them, right? Game's pretty good, so a well deserved success, indeed.
More numbers for you, straight from EA:
- 81B points have been earned in online multiplayer sessions
- 43M weapons and gadgets have been unlocked in online multiplayer
- Over 6M video views on YouTube
- 2.9M hours have been spent playing online in the last 24 hours alone
- 230K peak-concurrent-users (PCUs)
- Over 44k Twitter fans (most out of any EA title)
The game's popularity may explain the server issues many people have been experiencing. But Battlefield franchise Executive Producer Karl Magnus Troedsson says that's in the past.
"DICE and EA have brought more servers online," he says. "We now have enough capacity to handle all Battlefield: Bad Company 2 connections seamlessly and we continue to monitor online play daily."
So how's that working out for everyone?
Contest:
10:20 AM on 03.18.2010
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Has been working flawlessly on PSN, apart from 1 and only 1 disconnect last night, apart from that it's been absolutely perfect, no lag, no connection issues, nice quick matchmaking, PERFECT!
Haven't touched much of the Single player yet, played a little, it's OK, but who buys Battlefield for the single player?
Game is straight crack, yo.
@choc: I haven't touched the SP either. lol.
I for one have enjoyed every moment of this game, and will continue to throw 5+ hours a day until 2 am playing it because it really is THAT fun. Pro tip tho... Play with friends, in a squad, and communicate well, this game becomes a hollywood war you have never experienced before.
Bad Company 2 is still the best FPS I've played in a while and I can't get enough of it, my friend flying the Black Hawk with me mowing down some dudes with a minigun is the best!
God of War III might have something to say about that. Then again you never do know
Nor is it the only two statistics that were shown.
Last night I was dropped out of the first 4 games I was in. Some after 5 minutes. Some after fighting through 4 out of 5 map locations. Then it seemed to clear up.
Every night I am dropped several times (2 to 5) usually more sporadically.
But the real problem is that I can try to 'Join' the game as soon as the round starts, but somehow there are already 1 or 2 charges set in the base with alarms blaring.
So personally, I think the servers have been hacked.
Also as happens every MP session at some point my PS3 freezes up so hard it has to be cold booted. Meaning I had to turn it off just to get out of the frozen game screen. The PS3 button (which is the "escape" button) is unresponsive. That is bad code or hacking. Not just a server overload.
I haven't ever had a game play so badly the PS3 freezes up. Killzone crashed in one place but never froze the system. You could escape from the game at least.
Then I got a "message" - after signing back on. A rough paraphrase: "Your skill level (178) has been reset due to your recent performance to (0)." A bold red zero.
What does that even mean?
Currently I am a 'Warrant Officer (Gold)'. I forget what # class that is? 23 or 24?
Once in awhile we run into teams that snipe like crazy when they're attacking so as to get huge amounts of kills and points, then sneak attack at the last moment, but that's pretty rare. For the most part I think the people that play this game are pretty mature.
8 letterbombs from people who paid 60 dollars and preordered a game that was almost unplayable for 3 weeks.
Just sayin...
The only REAL problem I have is when you're playing Russians... as opposed to the Yankees they yell out in English :(
I'm adding you - if I can figure out how. That PSN friends system is a bit baffling to me. I do usually play Engineer. A good team needs at least 2 IMO. No one comes around my base in a vehicle without paying the price of admission.
Add me as well - NoToEmpire.
I know for a fact I've had it happen to me a solid ten times and I've only had the game since Sunday.
I guess I'm just lucky.
That doesn't sound good mate.
Maybe PS3 is borked? As I say I'm not trying to "fool" anyone, my BC2 has been absolutely perfect, save on disconnect and I've put in some serious hours.
I do have 20mb/s fibre optic broadband though, you playing on dial up or something?
I joke, but seriously I would put your issues down to something other than the servers, or the game, especially total console freezes.
If I was you I'd buy some insurance for your PS3 ASAP.
I love this game...took me a little while to really get into it, but now it's my favorite current shooter. It's been running pretty decent on the 360, a lot better than MW2, I might add.
Issues I have with it: Zero team balancing at the start of concurrent matches. Inability to disconnect at the game summary screen. Seeming lack of players joining mid-game.
More often than I'd like, I end up playing 3-5 rounds in a row, only to realize that one team has two players left on it, and the other has 6 or more. Also, player count seems low overall. It's rare that I end up in a game with more than 12 players total. Nobody seems inclined to use a mic at all, either.
All these quibbles are relevant to the 360 version. Seems like a lot of people are playing this on PS3. I dunno. The game is solid, and I enjoy it, but I'm a little let down by these issues. Combined, they pose a significant detriment.