Battlefield 3 ships 10 million copies
Electronic Arts has said it is unlikely to bin singleplayer and focus just on online for Battlefield.
Three million copies of the game had been sold as pre-orders before the game was released, confirmed Electronic Arts' COO Peter Moore in an investor call yesterday.
Despite Battlefield 3's successes, however EA says it is unlikely to return Battlefield to it's multiplayer-only roots and plans to keep the singleplayer component for the foreseeable future.
'The single play experience is important. It's a great way to get fans into the experience, have them train up and get ready for multiplayer,' EA's Frank Gibeau told Eurogamer. 'A lot of fans just enjoy having that single player experience. So I think you have to have both.'
'Remember as well that single player is often how new players ramp into the game,' added EA CEO John Riccitiello. 'It's a way for new players to get exposed to a franchise.'
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Discuss in the forums ReplyI would have ordered it through Origin, but my Internet connection (at home) has been a little intermittant lately so thought it best to get a retail copy.
I went play for mine too but it hasn't turned up yet, I just get:
Processing in warehouse
Delivery estimate: 3-5 working days
:<
All I want to do is get in there and get my frags on!
I hope I'm lucky... I very anxious to play it...
So to the guys above that don't have it yet, don't feel too bad, I will play it plenty for all of us ;)
*quickly runs away*
Not a particularly reasurring start to my use of Origin, especially as it then wouldn't continue on to install the files anyway. It would be nice if it installed first then requested auth but never mind!
Unlucky mate. I logged into battlelog at around 11 last night and there was a message at the top saying something about some servers being overwhelmed.
Difference being that was 2004. Steam no longer has such issues, even with massive releases.
The huge sales slow things down though.
I bought the Russian code that came with the map pack and other bit's for £25.99 :)
Redeemed using a VPN, downloaded and installed it without the VPN, then ran the single player 1st with the VPN on and hey presto worked but, was in Russian so downloaded the stuff from where I bought it and now it's in English and play's perfectly.
Can't believe though that they shipped 10 million copies and places are saying they need more stock, that is just amazing for a game that does not have Call Of Duty in the name I think in such a short period of time as well.
Then there is all the download's from Origin and other places, so I would not be surprised if up to now they have sold around 12 million copies, with the expectation of them selling a further 3 - 5 million copies giving a total of between 15 and 17 million copies over say, the next 12 month's but I may be wrong and maybe they will sell more than that within the next 2 month's who know's really.
Anyway I am enjoying this game allot and looking forward to a weekend full of shooting people and getting some practice using those snipers.
The multiplayer is good fun, but all the stories about the single player are spot on - it's rubbish. I think I'll be switching the difficulty to easy (if I even bother to finish it) and just sit back and try to enjoy the set pieces, because as a game there's just no pleasure in being told what to do and when to do it all the time.
If you used a proxy switcher you could have been playing on the 25th like a lot of people :).
And people wonder why EA's systems struggled.
I ain't buying this til nearer Christmas... when it's patched proper and the servers are less over loaded.
10million copies christ, is that retail only? m
I believe there is a 200mb patch straight off.
Waiting for mine to arrive
Can't comment on Multiplayer, even though I've been playing the game since Tuesday evening, I haven't been able to connect to a game server due to errors connecting to Battlelog and the EA server :-\
Me and you both.
Carry on!
Whenever I did that I got the game late. It may cost a few pounds more, but atleast with digital copy, you get the game on time, in my case i unlocked it last monday, 5 days before UK release, and didnt have to wait for the installtion.
Yep, I agree. Digital Download = more convenient = less stress :).