EA completes Battlefield: Bad Company 2 server maintenance

by Ben Gilbert on Mar 15th 2010 5:00PM

EA assures us via Twitter that, after a rocky launch period, the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 online servers have now been stabilized. Pretty much every iteration of Bad Company 2 has seen issues arise when connecting to EA's servers for online multiplayer, with Xbox 360 kicking some users all the way out to the Dashboard and PC users experiencing authentication issues with PunkBuster.

The developer now says that those issues have been addressed, due in no small part to new servers being added over the weekend. "All new hardware is in place and ready to serve your BFBC2 needs," the tweet reads, backed up by a Q&A on the Battlefield Blog with more info. While some players may still experience a stat loss issue, EA and DICE are actively looking into a fix and encourage anyone who experiences said glitch to report it online. Now, if you'll excuse us, we've got dudes to sneak up on and knife in the back.

Source 1 - Twitter
Source 2 - Battlefield Blog

Tags: bad-company-2, battlefield, battlefield-bad-company-2, dice, ea, ea-dice, Electronic-Arts, Microsoft, multiplayer, online, punkbuster, server, server-maintenance, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (51)

About goddamn time. Oh and thanks Gamestop for your amazing pre-order bonuses that are now completely useless since I unlocked the AKS-74 anyway. Not sure about squad rush, but I'll have to check it out.

EA continues to do everything on their own servers and continues to screw things up. Brilliant.

Awesome. I guess EA wasn't expecting BC2 to be as popular as it is.

Considering they have issues with the servers for every single game they release, I don't think that's the lone issue.

EA servers are the worst.

it honestly is extremely popular,

http://bfbcs.com/BFBC2_leaderboard/pc

80,000 people playing it after 2 weeks? and on the PC to boot? not bad for a game that isn't MW2 hyped.

Thanks for that link Brian. and I call hax: http://bfbcs.com/stats_pc/Bu.Rogers

Lesser of 2 evils?

Or we can run around Arcadey Warfare 2 and get stabbed up by those Lightweight fast moving space Marines that have a thing for using John Wayne shotguns....

No i dont want to hear about how sucky i am in MW2, i am a strong supporter of Infinity Wards versions of Call of Duty, but they ALWAYS let me down with those farkin "Perks" that turns a decent Multiplayer match into a mentally challenged child's dream.

Yeah because there aren't people running to stab you in Battlefield...

They don't run around like Usain Bolt though, magically surviving shotgun blasts to the face, stabbing you and your entire team in a 3 second period with a tactical knife.

Agreed. Modern Knifefare 2, anyone?

at least it wasn't just the PS3 version....(Is the store working yet on there?)

Yes it is. there was a update the other day

AGREED! EA is frakin horrid when it comes to multiplayer backbone infrastructure.

I have no issues with the servers but I rather they just fix the refresh hang times on the server lists.

OMG I know right! Servers take friggin 2 minutes to show up

Yeah, I don't understand how they can have such awful servers for every single game that they release. It's obvious there's some serious cost cutting going on here.

Great timing on the server repair EA. I remember MW2 being down for nearly 2 weeks. This is a fast fix compared to that.

Really? Is that the reason there were days of glitched gaming to where you couldn't get a REAL game, squad booting, disconnection before/during/after games? So don't try to act cute with your lolwuts. I'm not bashing MW2. But it did take them forever to fix.

P.S. - I know you like to troll around ever since you created your account so find something better to do than pretend things never happened just to start crap.

on the ps3 there was glitching but that's not really the same thing as the servers being down.

Oh snap!

@a442585

At least you can admit when you are off base. That I can respect you for. But don't act like MW2 has no long term issues.

*has had

@Person

No one here is bashing MW2. It is a good game. It was a simple observation that EA fixed the servers more quickly than the problems MW2 had. You're obviously a whining fanboy.

"MW2 broke all records of every entertainment launches ever!
it made tons of youtubers popular
it got a youtuber his dream job"
Well fantastic, you've convinced me. Seriously, that's the best reasons you could come up with? You didn't say anything about actually having better gameplay etc., it's the better game because people on youtube get lots of views?

mw2 may be the better game statistically but statistics aside, it is just a casual game, now if you want to use REAL tactics, and make kills you can be proud of, because you didnt camp to get your kills, you can get bc2. you dont like bc2 because you probably get your ASS handed to you by vehicles... bad company didnt need a previous goty gimmick to push it up the charts, because its gameplay and graphics overall trumped mw2. you can keep your campstreak rewards, tiny maps,and no bullet drop, ill stick with a REAL game

EA's online voice chat sucks ass.

If I had to guess, they've got a contract with some manufacturer that is doing a less than stellar job of providing EA with the infrastructure necessary to support online multiplayer games. It would probably cost them an ungodly sum of money to get out of the contract, so EA is stuck with some manufacturer that probably bamboozled them into a contract. Or the execs went with whoever was cheapest while disregarding recommendations from the staff that would actually be working on it.

Having myself been in on the process of shopping around for servers a few times before, I can say that either case isn't a far-fetched scenario.

Now I'm having an issue where if I leave a match it wipes all my stats until I turn of my PS3 and reload the game. Its really annoying.

Hey, that's great. Now could you please fix the matchmaking, because myself and the other casual players (level 10 & under) are tired of getting pwn'd by full squads of level 25+ teams. Thanks!

"Now, if you'll excuse us, we've got dudes to sneak up on and knife in the back."

Real men use the Repair Tool or the Defibrillator to get ninja kills!

I love the Defrib kills, got my first on accident now its just fun.

You thank me for the repair tool achievement.

But seriosuly they should remove the dog tags,so far I have 188 of them but I get so effing upset when it happens to me.

I have to throw spot mines everywhere nowadays.

Then again I'm credit to team.

I find it funny that besides the store not working the PS3 version was running great for me and my friends, but now that it has been patched the store works and me and my friends have had to deal with some stupid lag

Pretty much every GAME has seen issues arise when connecting to EA's servers for multiplayer online

*fixed that for you joystiq

Really? Still complaining about server issues and connection problems?

These have been issues with Battlefield since BF2 (2005) and how in-efficient the browser was in that game.

I believe the "EA sux" argument is long dead because things like this happen with such a franchise like Battlefield, it's like having to put air in tires, it just is.

This great news, I'm getting the game tommorow.

Wow. I must be the only B:BC2 player that hasn't had their stats wiped, or game frozen, or anything like that. I get lag here and there, but I have no idea what most people are complaining about.

Must be lucky I guess. I suck at this game, but still enjoy the hell out of it.

I haven't had any issues since the weekend after the game came out. Crossing my fingers for a patch to fix some gameplay issues, though. I'd like to see the mortar recharge rate slowed, and maybe the damage they inflict on MCOM stations decreased. It's frustrating when Rush matches devolve into a team full of snipers mortaring the stations from across the map.

Had some great games with some Joystiq folks. We kick asses.

Battlefield: Bad Connection 2

I am still getting kicked out. Worked great over the weekend!

Considering my stats, I wouldn't mind getting them wiped...

Whatever, I drop ammo packs like a champ.

Great. How about fixing the Battlefield: 1943 servers now.

This is all well and good, but now the original Bad Company is having server issues, and I have absolutely no interest in buying or playing Modern Unreal Tournament 2.

Now if they could fix 1943 I'd be thrilled. Why did MW2 come up at all in this discussion?

Hey Infinity Ward.....get the picture??

i still can't play 2 ps3 on one internet so all server problems aren't fixed

still can't play 2 ps3's one one internet so server problems aren't fixed!!!!!

Wait... there were issues? I played a few times on PS3 and found it to run as smooth as butter. It took me a while to get used to the glaring lack of visual fidelity compared to MW2, but I'll be damned if i wasn't enjoying the big-battle crazyness.

Admittedly, I have only logged on to play within the past week (I bought last Monday) and only a handful of times, but each time went great.

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