DICE Address Battlefield 1943 Server Issues

[Logan Westbrook]

DICE Address Battlefield 1943 Server Issues

Developers DICE have spoken out about the issues dogging Battlefield 1943.

The launch of Battlefield 1943 has hit a few bumps along the way, with players experiencing a variety of problems including crippling lag and seemingly random disconnections. Not a great start by anyone's standards, but developer DICE say that the game is a victim of its own success.

On the EA community forums, DICE producer Gordon Van Dyke posted [http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-1943/733928-good-news-bad-news.html]: "Good News, the game is incredibly successful beyond even my expectations. We have reached server capacity, but the bad news about this now some people can't join unless someone leaves."

DICE and EA sprung into action, adding more servers, but discovered new bugs along the way and so had to iron those out as well. According to the latest update, the game should be working for most people, but there are still people having connection issues.

It's not all doom and gloom though, at least not for EA and DICE. Within 24 of the games release, players racked up nearly 30 years of playing time and got over 5 million kills. Which is great and all, but not really all that comforting to the people unable to play the game.

Source: 1up [http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175134]


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[Sparrow]

"Good News, the game is incredibly successful beyond even my expectations..."

Yay!

"...but the bad news about this now some people can't join unless someone leaves."

Aww.

 

[Davey Woo]

I didn't notice any disconnects when I was playing. Though I suppose it was about 3 in the morning GMT.

 

[Subzerowings]

Too bad the game was kind of rushed.
Guess I'll wait a few days before buying then.
Thanks for the info!

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Hang on, something feels strange..........

..........did EA actually do something.....NICE.....for us?

 

[bue519]

I didn't notice any disconnects when I was playing. Though I suppose it was about 3 in the morning GMT.

I think the server issues are only for the 360 version, so if you have the PSN version your in the clear.

 

[typhoon17]

As a BF player from 1942 all the way through 2142, I just have to say that this ALWAYS happens. DICE are retards. Every BF they release is buggy as s**t, and it takes 1-2 years before they fix most of it and present a half decent game. One would think they were designing a flight simulator rather than a mindless shooter. This is the reason I am not getting involved with 1943, aside from the fact that it's just 1942 with nicer window dressing.

Exactly! Can you imagine what this mess will be like when it comes out for PC? It'll probably be hacked in 5 days and preloaded with bugs.

 

[Jumplion]

I've been thinking of buying it. I liked the demo, though I don't think I liked it enough. Any opinions on the game here? Besides it being buggy as hell of course.

 

[Lowbreed]

Trying to play it (XBOX) and get amazing amounts of lag, stupid bugs with vehicle collisions and random freezing.
It's always one team that wins, next round, they win again etcetc.
Not that great

 

[Sixties Spidey]

I got the trial version. At first I experienced a lot of hell with trying to join a game. I fucked off to something else, came back, tried again, and it worked with no lag. This was with the 360 version btw.

Oh and while I'm talking about this:

EA, what is with you guys putting half an hour on the goddamn trial?! It takes me more at least an hour to play with it and see what I think of it!

 

[JWAN]

DICE and EA pissed me off with BF Vietnam and they pissed me off so much I never bout battlefield 2 or any of its offspring.

let me send a shout out to them-

Fix your fucking games before you release them, especially that damn punkbuster that has always been a lousy piece of shit. Delays are better than releasing a half-assed piss poor game that does little more than take up space on a computer.

sorry for the swearing but if I stated it any other way I would have been lying about my sheer anger with EA and DICE

P.S your customer support sucks, fire them all and start over

 

[bimbley]

As a BF player from 1942 all the way through 2142, I just have to say that this ALWAYS happens. DICE are retards. Every BF they release is buggy as s**t, and it takes 1-2 years before they fix most of it and present a half decent game. One would think they were designing a flight simulator rather than a mindless shooter. This is the reason I am not getting involved with 1943, aside from the fact that it's just 1942 with nicer window dressing.

If they're so shit, why have you played all of them?

For what it's worth, I reckon that at £9.99 this game is wicked value and good fun. And just another reason to get a PS3 by the sounds of it...

-Bimbley

 

[Abedeus]

Ah, PA has done it again.

 

[JWAN]

As a BF player from 1942 all the way through 2142, I just have to say that this ALWAYS happens. DICE are retards. Every BF they release is buggy as s**t, and it takes 1-2 years before they fix most of it and present a half decent game. One would think they were designing a flight simulator rather than a mindless shooter. This is the reason I am not getting involved with 1943, aside from the fact that it's just 1942 with nicer window dressing.

If they're so shit, why have you played all of them?

For what it's worth, I reckon that at £9.99 this game is wicked value and good fun. And just another reason to get a PS3 by the sounds of it...

-Bimbley

I guess we assumed they would actually fix the problems, especially with all of those patches they kept releasing. None of them worked and we just wanted a real investment of fun.

what we got was more shit

I REALLY hope EA or DICE gets a rep in here so we can bounce some of these ideas off of their thick skulls

 

[MK Tha Rebel]

Um...good for you guys? Glad your game is so popular that it can't handle it? I don't know...be better prepared!