DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

[Alcorr]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Hmm yeah AF will prolly sell better than EF...

[Souljah]

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I find it strange that if BF2:SF sold 750 000 units, how come I only see like 1500-2500 players at any time of the day (using ASE).
It should be like 10 000 - 25 000 players or maybe even more.
Same thing goes for v.BF2, sure it has been out for a while but still
theres always between 20 000 - 40 000 online.
and the highest amount of players they had online at the same time was like 5? 000 something players.
It should have been like 100 000 or more considering the amount of units that they´ve sold (1.1 million units I think in the first month).

Are the majority of players playing without a internet connection?
although I read somewhere that there was 780 000 playing v.BF2 online in mars.

[X-Pharaon-X]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

i play with an nternet connection

[Souljah]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

i play with an nternet connection

[David Champion]

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EF was sold in Boxes in countries, which commonly use safer payment methods than credit card.
There were boxes, but they contained only the dowload code and no cd.

Really, which countries? Even so, it's a minimal thing for cardboard boxes and a plastic credit card w/code compared to everything else.

[Drevor]

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Really, which countries? Even so, it's a minimal thing for cardboard boxes and a plastic credit card w/code compared to everything else.

Only Germany afaik. [amazon.de] And its nothing but a empty box with a download code printed on the inlay

[Brutus]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

I find it strange that if BF2:SF sold 750 000 units, how come I only see like 1500-2500 players at any time of the day (using ASE).
It should be like 10 000 - 25 000 players or maybe even more.
Same thing goes for v.BF2, sure it has been out for a while but still
theres always between 20 000 - 40 000 online.
and the highest amount of players they had online at the same time was like 5? 000 something players.
It should have been like 100 000 or more considering the amount of units that they´ve sold (1.1 million units I think in the first month).

Are the majority of players playing without a internet connection?
although I read somewhere that there was 780 000 playing v.BF2 online in mars.

You have to take into account that people play at different times. A constant player base of 25K at any given time sums up to a lot of player per month.

Only Germany afaik. [amazon.de] And its nothing but a empty box with a download code printed on the inlay

Special Forces is available on the shelf in the U.S. You can get it at Best Buy and EB Games for sure.

[Drevor]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

Special Forces is available on the shelf in the U.S. You can get it at Best Buy and EB Games for sure.

erm ... we where talking about Euro Force wheren't we?

[-=TxG=-Phoenix]

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With 2142 coming out BF2 and packs will not sell 1.3million more copies. In my opinion it's official that more people will buy a WWII based battlefield game than modern.

Listen to your numbers EA and release another WWII based battlefield game.

The only reason BF1942 sold so many copies was due to the DC mod and one of the main reasons EA bought Trunan (sp), the developer of DC!

I think many of the old DC guys here know of a few people that bought 1942 just to play DC! I know of at least 3-4 people myself!

[lmimmfn]

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WOW. EF netted 1.3 million bucks? I bet they lost money on it. think of the researchers, artists, programmers, testers, and all of the work they had to put in keeping their distribution system working on that first day just to get those sales.... and the support team.

They made a fortune on EF, i dont have it, but i read PC Format( UK edition ), and they gave it 50%, complaining about the Euro forces having the exact same textures as the americans etc due to lazyness on developers behalf
However i find it interesting that BF2 and all expansions will be realeased soon

[Brutus]

Re: DICE Interim Report Jan.-Mar. 06'

erm ... we where talking about Euro Force wheren't we?

Sorry, my mistake.

[Souljah]

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You have to take into account that people play at different times. A constant player base of 25K at any given time sums up to a lot of player per month.

Apperantly you didnt read my post. What I was saying is the numbers of players at any given time is always between those figures I stated and the number for most v.BF2 players online at the same time was like 5? 000, sure thats alot but that it didnt go higher then so on one singel time.
I just find it strange considering the amount of units sold especially in the first month, thats all...

The only reason BF1942 sold so many copies was due to the DC mod and one of the main reasons EA bought Trunan (sp), the developer of DC!

I think many of the old DC guys here know of a few people that bought 1942 just to play DC! I know of at least 3-4 people myself!

U got to be f@king kidding me, 95% of buyers dont know what mod is.
BF1942 was a revulotion in gaming, theres still "some days" more players playing the wake Demo then both DC 0.7 and DC final combined.

[Brutus]

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Apperantly you didnt read my post. What I was saying is the numbers of players at any given time is always between those figures I stated and the number for most v.BF2 players online at the same time was like 5? 000, sure thats alot but that it didnt go higher then so on one singel time.
I just find it strange considering the amount of units sold especially in the first month, thats all...

I did read your post, you just didn't understand what i was saying. 25K players at one time, add up to a lot of people playing the game. Say you have 25K people on at any given time, and the average player plays for 2 hours (Not sure what the average is, just an example). That would mean that on average, 300K different people play each day. This is not even taking into account that not everyone play everyday.

[jdrou]

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one of the main reasons EA bought Trunan (sp), the developer of DC!

DC was developed by Trauma Studios which was bought by DICE (before EA bought DICE).