Battlefield 3 videogame sales blow away EA record
File photo shows a poster of the Battlefield 3 video game. Electronic Arts announced that Battlefield 3 has become its fastest selling video game ever, with players snapping up more than five million copies since it launched last week.
Electronic Arts (EA) announced that Battlefield 3 has become its fastest selling video game ever, with players snapping up more than five million copies since it launched last week.
"From Tokyo to Los Angeles, Sydney to London, millions of fans have been playing all weekend long -- we are overwhelmed by the global response to Battlefield 3," said EA executive vice president said Patrick Soderlund.
"Already, we are seeing unprecedented play times and online activity which is very rewarding," he continued. "This launch solidifies Battlefield as a leading entertainment brand."
The latest edition to popular Battlefield military shooter franchise has reportedly generated more than $300 million in revenue since the veteran US video game maker released it on October 25.
An unprecedented number of people took to playing Battlefield 3 online during the weekend, causing some system stumbles, according to EA.
"This has been our largest launch to date," the 29-year-old US video game company said at its Battlefield 3 blog.
"The overwhelming response has been as humbling as it is appreciated," the message continued. "Battlefield 3 is the fastest selling game in EA's history, but is not without its ups and downs."
EA said that the system supporting online multi-player features in the video game "was stabilized to roughly 98.9 percent" during the weekend.
The game is set near in a near future, with players taking on roles as US Marines tackling missions places such as Paris, New York and Tehran.
(c) 2011 AFP
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That's what you give up to play this game.
they say gaming is like a drug...
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I've played for 10 hours now and can't recall a single bug... PC version.
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Not if you know what you're doing... I agree it was a dick move on their part, but the great thing about PC gamers is that a lot of them are intelligent enough to defeat such systems, to remove them altogether, or at least to find someone else who has and benefit from their work...
Who says that? Idiots? Knowing both, one is nothing like the other...
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Unless you call getting shoved out of cover into the open by one of your squadmates a "bug", that happens sometimes... but that's not really a bug just a minor AI imperfection.
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And competent site would ban the person that created them as well.
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I've played this game for less than three hours and noticed considerable bugs in the single player campaign. I.e. Getting stuck on mission "going hunting" where the runners either don't appear or don't die no matter how many times you "lase" them.
The second bug I've noticed is in the mission Operation Guillotine, where after the RPG blows up the truck, the AI stops beneath the bridge and just remains there, despite the "Follow" command. The only thing that fixed it for me was restarting the entire mission.
The next bug I've noticed was in the mission after that with the tanks. After you've finished blowing up the cars, the tank still doesn't move forward to the bridge area... I'm sure there are other bugs and glitches also, but I'm not that far into the game, tbh.
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That's very strange, I've gotten through all of those missions and considerably further and seen no bugs at all...