Server, disc glitches mar Battlefield 3 launch Battlefield 3 shot onto shelves today and multiplayer functionality was immediately slaughtered by an army of problems. The keenly anticipated EA title was picked up by eager fans last night, who returned home to find the EA Online servers down. Many complaints on the official Battlelog forums prompted developer Dice to Tweet …
Just imagine the problems if thousands of the people who pre-loaded the game hadn't got the game 4 days before the EU and UK release by making a simple change to their internet settings.
One suspects EA deliberately made circumventing the relase date check trival to reduce the load on release day. If that is the case, then the game has still become a victim of its own success.
Well that's saved me the money on buying the game at all, I'm not taking part in encouraging this kind of money grabbing. The creators of everything else in the world, books, cars, whatever don't have any income from secondhand goods, but games are "special" and they claim the money is for future development, not just improving the company's profits for the owners.
Terry Pratchett keeps second hand book shops going, yet you never hear him complain ;)
It's the same lie as the train operators. 15 years of travelling on trains where each fare hike was "to help improve the network" yet nothing about train travel has improved in that time, except the operators profit margins.
Yay EA!
Stagger the release across the world to annoy your UK fans who have had to wait whilst others have played.
Continue to use Punkbuster even though it's rubbish (still kicking valid players, whilst the leader boards are stuffed full of AA hackers)
Use Origin to deliver the SW, when you could have just used Steam.
CTD bugs, sound bugs, graphics bugs, game hanging.
Glitches in the maps that were highlighted during Alpha AND Beta testing (Operation Metro rocks near B m-com I'm referring to you)
Tiny infantry only maps instead of the huge Battlefields that we all love.
Online activation and game credentials checking which go FUBAR on release.
A laughable single player campaign.
My only hope is that all the retards go and play COD once it's released and leave BF3 for the long term players.
regards a BF veteran (BF1942, BF vietnam, BF2, BF2142, BF Heroes, BP4F, BFBC2 & BF3)
When I said I would get BF3 but only after the initial failings by EA which have become the norm lately. Granted yes its probably running fine for the majority of people but for some reason I seem to be one of those typically afftected by issues with EA games. Dont know why that is though.
Kind of apples and oranges there. The last time I checked, Activision weren't developing their engine from the ground up. I expect the MW3 launch to go more smoothly than BF3's, but it's not nearly as complex of a game, and the changes are not nearly as drastic.
That said, BF3 has had nary a problem for me. A couple servers have lagged a bit, but it was all taken care of in the first 24 hours, and i proxy-unlocked mine (thank you korean time zone). In other news, the sun will rise again tomorrow... oh and EA made $600,000,000 since Tuesday... <shrug>
I though about renting it to see if the online was as good as is being claimed before splashing out. Then i found out that if I wanted to play online with a rented copy I would have to cough up 800 microsoft points (roughly a fiver if I remember correctly) for an online pass. Bugger that!
BF isnt made for consoles. get it on pc where there are 40 more players.
anyway, i had issues on thursday night where activation took hours. bt then i got in via a korean proxy.
a few bugs like CTD and squad system being terrible but hopefully it will be fixed.
to the guys above: bad company 1 & 2 arent proper battlefield games, they are cut down console ports.
i still think they are going the wrong way - 4 man squads are rubbish and comms are poor too. but the main problems are the scummy snipers and lonewolves, who ruin the game. if you dont want to play teamwork fuck off back to COD.
I have to admit i was rather frustrated last night sitting there from midnight to 1 am while origin informed me my internet was down :S or that there was a bad gateway but once it finally started working at about 1 the game ran pretty well for me and other than the odd minor glitches its been a very fun way to spend my day :)
Anyone in the nottingham vicinity can go to gamecity6 and try out this game in a travelling EA game trailer/pod at the market square. I didn't as there are far more indie titles elsewhere that I personally prefer ... fez dez rez, for example , rocks my boat rather than another paint by numbers FPS
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