Origin+BF4 release.

[sleezeep]

Are we going to see another blunder to the likes of the SimCity launch? Or do we think that EA has learned its lesson? I hope they are prepared but I have a feeling there are going to be a very rough few weeks at least.

[Thunderjolt]

Well I hope they realised that MANY people will be playing. From that they should have prepared themselves with a lot of servers. If they didn't then I'll just be sitting there facepalming.

[Joe3417]

Well I hope they realised that MANY people will be playing. From that they should have prepared themselves with a lot of servers. If they didn't then I'll just be sitting there facepalming.

Me to like my profile pic

[UselessBread]

Did Blizzard ever improve their launches of anything even though they always knew it was a mess? No.
The simple answer is, it is tough to very much impossible, to have a good launch of a title with restrictions like SimCity and the popularity of EA.
So unless they don't go with the SimCity style restrictions the launch will be a massacre.

[legopc]

i HOPE its not going to to be unplayeble for like 2-4 days after launch 

[TheRetiredSlave]

With Battlefield 4, wouldn't they allow 3rd-party server hosting like they did in all the previous Battlefield games? (at least on the PC side of things)

 

I wouldn't expect them to have a central server system fail as hard as Simcity did, because I don't think that they're going to be running any central server system other than the one for the Battlelog.. Launches of major titles can be rough at first, but I don't think this one will be too bad. (don't mind me,, just trying to remain optimistic here)

[BoomLiam]

The Sim City servers were controlled by Maxis I do believe and EA didn't give them as many servers as they did not expect there to be so much traffic towards those servers. As for BF4, EA know how much of a big game it is, furthermore the game is not locked down the the control of EA (the servers needed to be hosted by EA for the DRM thing) for BF4, anyone will be able to host a server for the game, so it should be fine. As for downloading the game off of Origin... well.... I personally expect that to go very slowly...

[berna]

I had no problems on the BF3 release, so I hope it will be the same for BF4.

[LogicalDrm]

Are we going to see another blunder to the likes of the SimCity launch? Or do we think that EA has learned its lesson? I hope they are prepared but I have a feeling there are going to be a very rough few weeks at least.

 

EA? Learned something? Don't think so. I've seen GameSpy crashing when BF2142 beta keys came. I know, not EA directly but they owned that at the time. When BC2 lauched EA master servers were down most part of launch weekend. With BF3 it was

 

With Battlefield 4, wouldn't they allow 3rd-party server hosting like they did in all the previous Battlefield games? (at least on the PC side of things)

 

I wouldn't expect them to have a central server system fail as hard as Simcity did, because I don't think that they're going to be running any central server system other than the one for the Battlelog.. Launches of major titles can be rough at first, but I don't think this one will be too bad. (don't mind me,, just trying to remain optimistic here)

 

Still even if all servers that ppl will go to play are 3rd party hosted, 50M simultanious (maybe more) connections to their master server = lagg. I just hope they use beta as stress benchmark.

[Valinor]

I don't remember there being any serious connection issues with the BF3 launch. Granted, they had some other.. problems, but I'm pretty certain that the servers weren't one of them.

[pcexplosion]

Thats why they have a beta to test the servers among other things