Despite issues, EA and DICE's latest Battlefield epic blows away the competition.
As we reported earlier in the week, Bad Company 2 has some issues. But that's not stopped it busting out a huge sales figure at launch.
The latest Battlefield game is set to top the sales charts for this month, based on internal EA sales data. The game's pushed over 2.3 million units worldwide.
"We are so thrilled with the success of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sales and fan response. In the first 48 hours we had such a tremendous rush to multiplayer gameplay that our servers experienced overwhelming demand. This is a testament to the massive response players have had worldwide for the extraordinary action experienced in the Battlefield sandbox," says Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer, Battlefield Franchise.
That's some neat spin right there: server failure as 'good thing'. The press release also goes on to mention the overwhelmingly positive reviews the game's seen, which we commented in our earlier article.
That said, EA is making headway on dealing with the game's various server and browser-based issues. Those who followed the impressive thread of commentary from earlier in the week will no doubt be thrilled to know (okay, maybe not as thrilled as us) that recent updates seem to have fixed things for us at least. As of this morning, we have zero issues logging into a game.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012