21 hours into the Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC beta and the stat crunchers have been crunching those stats. Here's what we know.
"We've never seen demand like it," says Craig Fletcher, Managing Director, Multiplay. "At our peak, we were connecting 10,000 people per second - and we managed the demand better than other servers, many of whom were down for hours when demand surged. If there was ever any doubt that our infrastructure and technology in Fileplay was anything other than best in its class, the past 16 hours have proved it."
Key stats (as of 2:00pm 29/01/2010):
Over 1 million page views to Multiplay over night
Over 100,000 new Multiplay Member Accounts created
Over 10,000 user connections per second at peak
10,000 keys distributed in under 3 hours
30,000 files served over night (45 Terabytes of data so approx 5000 DVDs)
6,000 player slots on our European Game servers solidly full.
Multiplay quadrupled Fileplay's web serving capacity in under 2 hours to deal with the huge surge in demand.
Really impressive stats from Multiplay, but perhaps worth pointing out (given the title of this article) that those stats are purely from Multiplay's FilePlay, so they aren't the whole picture as far as BF:BC2 is concerned.
I know loads that signed up to Multiplay to get a key because the main page said they had keys, when you sign up it then says theres no keys and that the ones available are for paying members only.
Not true. I got a key no problem by creating a free account in about 10seconds. Just because they were all given away extremely quickly it doesn't mean it's a scam
Not true. I got a key no problem by creating a free account in about 10seconds. Just because they were all given away extremely quickly it doesn't mean it's a scam
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