Battlefield 1943 (XBLA and PSN)

[Myth]

Been working fine for me for the past few hours.

[Malc]

Not working for me yet. Been playing tutorial for about an hour. Great fun, will be even better online.

[Uli]

still no server connection for me...

[Psyduck]

Say it needs 100 servers to handle the initial load. There's no point in EA investing in that much capacity if after the first 2 days they only need 50 for the rest of the time. Even if they see the big demand coming, it doesn't mean it's worth them meeting it...

[Matt]

At the same time, the game would sell a lot better if people could, you know, play it.

EA could have rented extra servers for the initial month, the cost easily being justified with the increase in sales. There were a few of us on last night, most waiting to play the game before deciding to buy it, which is fair enough. Don't think they'll all bother giving it another go after no-one managed to get a game over a 40 minute period.

[Lebowski]

Yeah real shame that a lot of people will be put off this because of the server issues. I had a play on the tutorial to get used to the aircraft and just flying about is lots off fun (once you get used to it). I would strongley recomend giving the tutorial a play as I was landing on the aircraft carrier after about fifteen mins of messing.

[ShadowDancer]

MS have put the game up to 90000 points, obviously so no-one will buy it whilst people are trying to sort this out. I haven't managed to get a game since trying on and off for 16 hours.

[ChrisF]

Weird. I downloaded it, loaded it up, went straight into a game (this was about 10pm last night). No lag issues or anyway. Not for me though so I deleted it. Go figure

[Malc]

Loaded it up this morning and got a game straight away! No lag issues for me at all this time. Been playing for an hour or so and it's brilliant, I need to get more used to the vehicles though as I can fly the plane very well in tutorial when no ones attacking me, but when i'm in a dog fight online my flying ability degrades as I panic and end up flying into the ground.

[FreelancePolice]

Had a very very quick go this morning and it's pretty excellent. I'll be getting the PC version as well I suspect as it just doesn't feel quite right playing it with a pad :P

[SuperBeatBoy]

If you haven't already, i recommend picking up Battlefield 2 on the pc. You can get it with all the expansions for £15 in game, a steal if you ask me.

[FreelancePolice]

Sadly I already own all the previous battlefields and have played them to death, I'm really pleased this 'feels' like a real battlefield though. It's brilliant to hear the old theme in all it's glory as well.

[SuperBeatBoy]

I'm not much for multiplayer games at all, but Battlefield just hooks me right in. Theres just something about the speed & weight of the character, feel of the weapons and the evironments.

[Uli]

Say it needs 100 servers to handle the initial load. There's no point in EA investing in that much capacity if after the first 2 days they only need 50 for the rest of the time. Even if they see the big demand coming, it doesn't mean it's worth them meeting it...

are you serious? EA have to make damn sure a smooth start as these initial "issues" push people away from their future online game efforts. i am a little buffled, to be honest, that EA's preparations for this release are so piss poor... i wish MS would apply more quality control especially when publisher's own servers come into play.

however, if i had bought the full game already i would be even more pissed.

[Brats]

I tried to connect at 7.30 this morning thinking it would be less busy, but I still couldn't connect. However, it kept said it was joining a game and then said the game wasn't available, over and over.

Anyone else having these issues? I checked my NAT and all was okay.