EA says the issues affecting Battlefield 3's online component since its launch last week are all but fixed.
As we reported last week, the Xbox 360 version was the hardest hit, with server connectivity problems when the game launched in North America last Tuesday and again following the game's midnight launch in Europe on Friday.
"We are happy to report that PS3 and PC players experienced server stability all weekend, and Xbox 360 servers are at 95 per cent and climbing," an EA spokesperson told Kotaku. "There were a number of different factors that impacted server connectivity across the platforms.
"Regardless of the cause or platform, our online teams are standing by to identify the issues and address them as they arise. We will not rest until we're at 100 per cent.
"[The Xbox 360 has] a particularly complex server architecture and we continue to work with Microsoft to improve connectivity. We are gamers, too, and understand how frustrating it is not to be able to play the game without interruption. We appreciate their patience, and promise it will be worth the wait."
The spokesperson insisted that issues with Origin - that saw some PC players unable to authenticate, and therefore unable to play - were far from widespread and have now been stabilised.
Source: Kotaku
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8I find it ridiculous that this is an accepted thing in the video games industry. Everyone is just okay with being sold a game that doesn’t work as advertised and all everyone gets it the promise that everything will be better in the future.
There was a huge Beta for Battlefield 3 and Electronic Arts & DICE have had a long time to fix all the issues that they encountered. If it’s not possible for me to only pay if the product is working properly the company shouldn’t be allowed to ask me to pay for a broken product. This should be treated just like any other product that doesn’t do what it’s supposed to and everyone should be able to return their copy of the game to get a full refund.
Errr, actually anyone can do exactly that, if they wanted to, the people who bought it could take their copy to the retailer and get a full refund, its only that people don't want to and they prefer to wait fro EA to fix the problem cause I will venture to say that they do like the game and, while a little frustrated, they prefer to keep their game until the problem is fixed.
Big fan of the game, but the front end is poor. Same old problems joining a game with friends that we've had since BF1943.
Haven't had a single problem on my 360 with the game so far. Fantastic game!
Well, the 360 servers I've tried have worked better than my tactics....
Going to take a while training myself away from Halo and back in to the ways of one hit kills and hidden snipers. I fear my K/D ratio will never recover from the first couple of weeks...
"PC players experienced server stability all weekend"
Did we indeed? Funny, I thought I was experiencing an unending series of disconnects, failed join attempts, crashes and shoddy UI bugs. Took twenty minutes to get into any game with my squadmates, and usually one of them wouldn't ever be able to make it. Meanwhile those of us who are in the game end up on different teams with a forced team-balance so we can't swap. And then, as soon as we get everyone together, like as not we get to play for about thirty seconds before the round ends, and the teams are mixed up again and someone gets booted or the game crashes. It is a joke.
I never understood why the sentence "all but fixed" means its all sorted out. That sentence reads to me that its everything else except being fixed.
Not having any server issues now. Though the map Tehran Highway always seems to rubberband lag for everyone. Other than that its all good.
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