Battlefield Bad Company 2: Beta Stats

James Ireland On January - 29 - 2010

21 hours in: Multiplay reveals the Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta stats

100,000 new accounts, 10,000 connections per second, 45 Terabytes of data as demand smashes all records – more beta keys available soon

Friday 29th January: 21 hours on from the launch of the Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC beta, gaming service provider Multiplay has revealed the first set of stats following the 5:00pm launch.

“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.

More keys should be available through fileplay.net soon – head over there to register your interest.

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