[tR]Simmis writes "As many of you are no doubt aware, Battlefield 1943 was released yesterday (July 8th) on the Xbox 360 gaming console. The game is only available for purchase by download through the online Xbox Live Marketplace.





Where you can buy Battlefield 1943.


The launch of the game went through as planned, and players around the world were able to download the game for the very reasonable price of 1200 Microsoft points. This is approximately 15 United States Dollars or 13 Euros or 10 British Pounds.

The Battlefield 1943 game launch was a massive success. Actually, it was too big of a success. So many players downloaded the game on its release day, that the Battlefield 1943 servers quickly reached their server capacity. As a result some eager players were locked out of the game. Even those players lucky enough to be in a server experienced laggy gameplay.

Luckily, Electronic Arts quickly realized this issue and took steps to correct it. Starting mid-day in the United States yesterday, teams of Electronic Arts employees began working around the clock to add additional Battlefield 1943 servers. Where these emergency servers came from, and whether or not they were "borrowed" from another game is unknown.



What EA needs.


One of the more prominent Battlefield 1943 developers, Gordon Van Dyke, recently had issued the following statement addressing the problem,


We are working to increase our server capacity to almost double what it is currently. This will be complete today West Coast time.

The facts don't lie; Battlefield 1943 has only been out for one day and the number of game servers has already more than doubled. The game will obviously be a huge success looking forward. Hopefully the Playstation 3 launch today will be smoother.

Based on what Bladescorpion was telling me yesturday, the games sounds very good and nothing a few quick fixes couldnt fix."