Publishers Electronic Arts have announced that sales for recently released first person shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have been more than impressive, adding that the title may become one of the company’s bestselling March releases ever in the US and Europe.<\/p>\n
“This is a testament to the massive response players have had worldwide for the extraordinary action experienced in the Battlefield sandbox,” said Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer, Battlefield Franchise recently.<\/p>\n
“DICE and EA have brought more servers online. We now have enough capacity to handle all BFBC2 connections seamlessly and we continue to monitor online play daily.”<\/p>\n
The following statistics were supplied by EA:<\/p>\n
– 81 billion points have been earned in online multiplayer sessions <\/p>\n
– 43 million weapons and gadgets have been unlocked in online multiplayer <\/p>\n
– Over 6 million video views on YouTube <\/p>\n
– 2.9 million hours have been spent playing online in the last 24 hours alone <\/p>\n
– 230 000 peak-concurrent-users (PCUs) <\/p>\n
– Over 44 000 Twitter fans (the most of any EA title)<\/p>\n
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