EA has just announced that Bad Company 2 has sold a record breaking 5 million copies after being on the market for just two months. This surpasses all-time sales of the first game, which are rumored to be around 4 million. As we reported earlier, it took the game just three weeks to reach 2.3 million units sold.
Furthermore, EA revealed that the downloadable-only title Battlefield 1943 has sold 1.5 million copies on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
EA’s expects additional earnings wiht a lineup of DLC for Bad Company 2, which will be the most extensive DLC for a Battlefield game to date.
DICE has revealed that the kit upgrade DLC is coming to Xbox 360 tomorrow. The codes for the DLC can be found on certain Dr. Pepper products in the US, while Europeans will have to buy the DLC. PC and PS3 versions of the DLC are expected to be released next month.
The new kits include new uniforms for each class, which feature more camouflage and camouflage for guns as well, including the M95 sniper. The DLC also includes 4 new achievements and 12 new awards.
We know this kinda sounds like a mess — there has been very little official info of the DLC from DICE’s side, and it’s even more difficult to figure out how to get it. But we’ll try and simplify it here:
If you’re in the US, you can only get the DLC through codes on Dr. Pepper products. If you’re in Europe, you’ll have to pay $5 for the DLC for all kits, or $2 for each kit upgrade.
According to statistics from GamerDNA, who monitors both MW2 and BC2 play stats (among a ton of other games), it appears that a lot of Modern Warfare 2 players have switched over to Bad Company 2. Their stats show MW2 usage has been falling steadily ever since BC2 was released. You can view the full stats here.
We previously reported that EA/DICE won’t be offering a public stats feed for Bad Company 2, but now it seems that the site bfbcs.com has obtained some form of a feed, and they’re offering stats for all players, including consoles as well.
BFBCS.com states that they’ll be offering an API for others to use, but we don’t know the reliability of such feed — neither do we know whether DICE will allow third party stats site like they used to do. For now though, it’s great that BC2 players have a place online to check their stats, ranks and leaderboards.
On the same day that Modern Warfare 2 is set to receive a map pack DLC, DICE has announced that Bad Company 2 will be receiving a “VIP map pack 2″ on the same day. Or actually, it’s not really a map pack, since both maps are already available, instead, the Conquest mode will be added to the map Africa Harbor and a Rush mode to the map Laguna Presa.
The “map pack” will be released for free to all who bought the game at retail, those who purchased it used will have to pay.
Bad Company 2 has been having server issues on all three platforms recently, either due to the sheer popularity of the game or DICE not being ready for so many players. The Xbox 360 multiplayer experience in particular was troublesome, and PC and PS3 users experience random disconnects as well. Either way, they’ve done some updates to the servers, here are DICE’s comments:
X360 was severely impacted, and the service is being restarted. It should be back online and we are monitoring closely.
PC had an outage, but the service is offline currently and the service is being restarted. It should be back online and we are monitoring closely. We will then start checking the quality of the customer experience to determine possible next steps.
PS3 appeared to have a brief outage, but has quickly recovered and the services is functioning properly at this time.
DICE reports that peak traffic was over 400% more than other Battlefield games, which can explain the unstable servers.
The biggest criticism seems to be the single player campaign, which tries too much to emulate Modern Warfare, is too short, and features a tame plot and story. The multiplayer however, certainly lives up to the Battlefield standard.
We’ll update the list with more as soon as more reviews are published. So far, it’s looking really good for the game and we’ve yet to come across a negative review.
Bad Company 2 is set to be released in stores tomorrow, and several game retailers are running a midnight launch, including GameStop, where over 1,300 stores are participating in a midnight launch event which will include BC2 tournaments as well. The reviews of the game are slowly beginning to appear as well, and we’ll have a full roundup of all reviews here very soon!
EA has announced that day-one DLC will be available for Bad Company 2, which will include two new maps, a Rush map called Nelson Bay and a Conquest map called Laguna Alta. If you buy the game used, you’ll have to spend $5 on the two maps. A second map pack is planned for March, which will likewise be free to those who bought the game.
EA has just announced that Bad Company 2 has sold a record breaking 5 million copies after being on the market for just two months. This surpasses all-time sales of the first game, which are rumored to be around 4 million. As we reported earlier, it took the game just three weeks to reach 2.3 million units sold.
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Bad Company 2 is out and so are the reviews, and so far, they’re almost all quite positive about the game.
