It seems that despite the repeated upgrades to the hardware and software of the Bad Company 2 servers, online problems have continued to persist in the week since the title's launch. In a desperate bid to conserve bandwidth, EA has gone as far as asking one of its game service providers to shut down their idle servers in an effort to reduce server load. EA explains the move on the Battlefield Blog, stating:
"We did not make this decision lightly but as an attempt to temporarily lower traffic on EA servers that is caused by the game server browser while we work on a client fix for the browser here at DICE. After previously shutting down all EA Public servers which accounted for approximately 40,000 player slots we have actually gained approximately 50,000 more player slots from new rental servers.
We currently have enough server capacity to allow over 150,000 players to get in a game server at once and that is just on PC."
To put this server demand into perspective, EA have also released some statistics that hint at just how many people are hooked into DICE's new game:
- The 4 different soldier types have gathered a score of more than 34 billion.
- There's been more than 400 million kills made.
- 1.3 million roadkills
- Squads and teams have assisted each other to 6.2 billion points.
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