{"id":5549,"date":"2010-03-09T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-bad-company-2-pc-sales-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5549-battlefield-bad-company-2-pc-sales-strong","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC sales strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a noticeable trend of decreasing PC game and increasing console game sales in the market, insiders at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fudzilla.com\/content\/view\/17998\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Fudzilla <\/a>report that the PC version is selling particularly well.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that there have been wide spread complaints about various bugs which inhabit the game, it seems that PC gamers looking for a solid modern online shooter are flocking from Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty 4 to Bad Company 2. Even the biggest Modern Warfare 2 supporters are growing tired of the game&rsquo;s ineffective match making protocol and poor online component.<\/p>\n<p>The issues surrounding the PC version of Bad Company 2 are thought to stem from PunkBuster, and EA has yet to give word as to when we can expect a patch that will address the problems.<\/p>\n<p>Fudzilla do not provide solid figures, but claim that &ldquo;several sources close to the situation insist that the sales were much higher than DICE thought the PC version of the game would generate within weeks of release.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fudzilla also claims that sources report that since the launch of the game, there are frequently more PC gamers online than there are Xbox 360 and PS3 players combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC2 bucks current trends with strong PC sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}