EA 'making daily improvements' to Battlefield 3 servers

johnafirth on 1 Nov '11 said:

EA? Shoddy servers? Shome mishtake, shurely?

KK-Headcharge78 on 1 Nov '11 said:

"While some players experienced intermittent disruption of online services due to high volume, internal estimates show that servers and service uptime stabilized to roughly 98.9% throughout the weekend, ensuring that players were connected and enjoying the game."

Sounds to me like someone just licked their finger and put it in the air. Just take it on the chin chaps you f**ked up!

Warrior24_7 on 1 Nov '11 said:

John Carmack said the Rage PC launch was a cluster f*k, but after seeing this, somewhere he is laughing!

craiglackenby on 1 Nov '11 said:

I've been unlucky, almost every time I go to play they're down. After some long thought I'm now actually going to purchase MW3 with BF3 as a trade in.

FIech on 1 Nov '11 said:

The launch weekend was ok was it EA? Maybe for the yanks where most developers cater for but over here in blighty we pay for over priced games then have one of the execs come round our homes and bum us, at least thats what it feels like. Over the launch weekend I manages one half decent game (stuttered at the end) and 6 laggy games, 4 of which dropped me. As for my connection I currently pay for the best connection available in the UK at the minute so you can count that out. EA servers are consistently s**te! Time and time again they prove that the monkeys at EA are being paid far too many bananas to know what they're doing.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but this game has been hyped and hyped and HYPED as the game to DESTROY Call Of Duty, but imagine a COD fan stepping away from their beloved franchise to give this a look, I reckon this is on their trade in pile already.
It's a sad day for Battlefield, instead of improving on what it did best (it was a completely different experience from COD) it has decided to change it's game plan to compete with a game that it was NEVER like and now feels worse for it. Dont get me wrong it is still great to play (WHEN IT WORKS) but I'm just wondering what it could have been if they werent so focused on competing and beating COD.
And as for EA servers, developers must be well sick of making games for EA knowing that they're gonna be unplayable online.

FlimFlam on 1 Nov '11 said:

The launch weekend was ok was it EA? Maybe for the yanks where most developers cater for but over here in blighty we pay for over priced games then have one of the execs come round our homes and bum us, at least thats what it feels like. Over the launch weekend I manages one half decent game (stuttered at the end) and 6 laggy games, 4 of which dropped me. As for my connection I currently pay for the best connection available in the UK at the minute so you can count that out. EA servers are consistently s**te! Time and time again they prove that the monkeys at EA are being paid far too many bananas to know what they're doing.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but this game has been hyped and hyped and HYPED as the game to DESTROY Call Of Duty, but imagine a COD fan stepping away from their beloved franchise to give this a look, I reckon this is on their trade in pile already.
It's a sad day for Battlefield, instead of improving on what it did best (it was a completely different experience from COD) it has decided to change it's game plan to compete with a game that it was NEVER like and now feels worse for it. Dont get me wrong it is still great to play (WHEN IT WORKS) but I'm just wondering what it could have been if they werent so focused on competing and beating COD.
And as for EA servers, developers must be well sick of making games for EA knowing that they're gonna be unplayable online.

Wrong. You have been unlucky. I've had no problems, no one I know has had any problems, so although I feel for you it does make 90% of your post redundant.

I'm beginning wonder if pointing out that in the grand scheme of the woes of this planet, a few server issues really aren't that big a deal, but somehow I doubt the angry, venom spitting masses of the Internet would even listen.

Seriously, get some perspective.

Mandatory Grape on 1 Nov '11 said:

I have found no problems with them at all.

c97dem on 1 Nov '11 said:

Am having nothing but problems, we are in games, getting disconnected for no reason, trying to join games a nightmare....I can see this turning a lot of people off the game and getting MW3, am gonna persevere though as I enjoy it when I get into games

beef946 on 1 Nov '11 said:

Brush off server issues. 2 fs

kirankara on 1 Nov '11 said:

Lmao, anyone not expecting.issues on an.fps in en early weeks, is frankly a moron. At least with dice it's weeks not months till online fixed. Whereas mw2 and blops were months before they were properly playable, with latter a lag fest plus constant host disconnects. Then it's p2p so lag still an issue anyway , whereas bf3 has dedicated servers.

So,.what would a cod.player whos new to bf3 think? Probably ,.that they're going to have these issues for months, so.they in for pleasant surprise, when they have buttery smooth servers shortly. This.is someone who brought mw2 and blops on day 1 too

Headsrinker on 1 Nov '11 said:

I've experienced no problems what so ever with the servers on the PC version.

gooner77 on 1 Nov '11 said:

I've had constant lag and connection issues, the last 2 days only. Thursday Friday and Saturday were OK ish for me

Starting to get really fed up with BF3 online its great when it works but it hardly ever works

Its not as if the single player is a decent alternative either

runadumb on 1 Nov '11 said:

No real problems for me on PC so far, server wise. Except one of the maps is wayyyyyyyyyyy more laggy than others. Rubberbands like crazy. The nighttime one, forgotten its name.

master-chief on 1 Nov '11 said:

I am also loving this game. The only problem i have, and hopefully someone will know how to get round this, is that on the xbox 360 how do you get in a game if there is 6-8 of us all wanting to play. I know squads are limited to 4 so we have been trying to get a squad to join a game and then invite the rest individually but what with the servers being almost full not really been having much joy and when you do manage to all get in the same game we are not all on the same team. There shoud be an option for all the party to join as two seperate squads

runadumb on 1 Nov '11 said:

I am also loving this game. The only problem i have, and hopefully someone will know how to get round this, is that on the xbox 360 how do you get in a game if there is 6-8 of us all wanting to play. I know squads are limited to 4 so we have been trying to get a squad to join a game and then invite the rest individually but what with the servers being almost full not really been having much joy and when you do manage to all get in the same game we are not all on the same team. There shoud be an option for all the party to join as two seperate squads

Think about what that would do to team balancing. You can't just have 8 people join one side. At best you could expect 4 on one and 4 on the other.

Albarn321 on 1 Nov '11 said:

Does anyone else feel this is being played by other FPS players who are used to a different style? So much running and gunning in the Rush games I've been playing and very little team/squad work. I'll be glad when COD is released and the multiplayer will hopefully return to "normal"

master-chief on 1 Nov '11 said:

I am also loving this game. The only problem i have, and hopefully someone will know how to get round this, is that on the xbox 360 how do you get in a game if there is 6-8 of us all wanting to play. I know squads are limited to 4 so we have been trying to get a squad to join a game and then invite the rest individually but what with the servers being almost full not really been having much joy and when you do manage to all get in the same game we are not all on the same team. There shoud be an option for all the party to join as two seperate squads

Think about what that would do to team balancing. You can't just have 8 people join one side. At best you could expect 4 on one and 4 on the other.

Why? Wasnt a problem on Cod. I am not asking for 8 players to join one team and the other team have less players. I just would have thought a game that was geared towards teamwork wouldnt limit a squad to 4 players

KK-Headcharge78 on 1 Nov '11 said:

What I don't get is the game is very good no doubt, over hyped to f**k, but good. However it is abundantly clear that there have been a lot of issues for a lot of people, so where the f**k do all these EA apologists come from? Fine if you ain't had problems bully for you but many have, myself included and frankly its bulls**t, is this the norm? It shouldn't be and I find it incredulous that people on here, who have occupied many a thread throwing s**t at other games for similar problems, are here actually telling others they are over-reacting.

If Epic can release Gears 3 with not a single on-line hitch then so can EA, that is my bottom line.

FlimFlam on 1 Nov '11 said:

What I don't get is the game is very good no doubt, over hyped to f**k, but good. However it is abundantly clear that there have been a lot of issues for a lot of people, so where the f**k do all these EA apologists come from? Fine if you ain't had problems bully for you but many have, myself included and frankly its bulls**t, is this the norm? It shouldn't be and I find it incredulous that people on here, who have occupied many a thread throwing s**t at other games for similar problems, are here actually telling others they are over-reacting.

If Epic can release Gears 3 with not a single on-line hitch then so can EA, that is my bottom line.

Dude seriously, first you were angry at EA, now with those who haven't had a problem? Chill out, you will give yourself an aneurism.

Yes, they have conceded they are having server issues, no it doesn't appear to have affected everyone, and for the record, Gears 2 was released with utterly borked servers, EA are not unique.

Go get some fresh air or something man, before you hurt yourself

KK-Headcharge78 on 1 Nov '11 said:

Oh ok I'll not air my views in a public forum and let the apologists rant on about how there is no issues with the game, I never said EA had not acknowledged it or that everyone has had a problem either.

This ain't angry this is mildly cheesed

agentxnofx on 1 Nov '11 said:

BS, the servers were not solid and haven't been since 10/25/11 01:30 from where I'm standing. Hell, even the beta had the same exact connection issues and EA had to of known (what, with 10million people playing the beta), that they should've expected there to be a huge amount of people on day 1.

Besides that, the actual game is fantastic... best times on XBL I've had all year when I can actually get in a game.