Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

[Shawn Zipay]

DICE and EA have passed along word of some amazing statistics surrounding the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta and demo. In addition to the news that the demo has been downloaded by over 3.5 million people, other statistics were released that are sure to impress.

Some fun facts about the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo:
• 3.5 Million downloads
• 500 Million kills
• 100 Million vehicle kills
• 15 Million knife kills
• 30 Million destroyed vehicles
• 10 Million head shots
• 25 Million revives

The PC beta and console demo is coming to a close on the 25th. There's still plenty of time for you to grab a beta key and hop into the mayhem!

[M0t0rBreath]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

And this is just the demo. Imagine the Beta!

[Dangerdog]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

25th can come and go, I'm waiting for March 2nd!

[Chaoszx]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

Pretty cool to see this type of thing being done.

[Entravenu5]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

25th can come and go, I'm waiting for March 2nd!

why is it that you guys get it on the 2nd and us europeans have to wait until the 5th?

[imported_benetti32]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

Nice stats! Thats 10x more kills than on consoles - PC gaming is not dead :P

[jake_]

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why is it that you guys get it on the 2nd and us europeans have to wait until the 5th?

Because we're actually cooler than you think.

[CptainCrunch]

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why is it that you guys get it on the 2nd and us europeans have to wait until the 5th?

My favorite reason is because the CDs have to cross the oceans

Other then that, I believe the reason has to do with marketing data. Someone a very long time ago posted about how Tuesdays are the ideal days to release in the US and Cananda, but in Europe this is not the case due to some strange reason and Fridays are the better day there. I tend to believe that one more than the others.

There was one game that was released first in Australia and then to the US/Canada, still Friday/Tuesday, and man the cry babies came out in droves that week, let me tell you.

Crunch

[GunHappyBob]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

At least half of those kills and headshots belong to me. I know, I know. You'd brag to.

[Kingkat54]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

My question is 3.5 million enough? Is that just the DEMO stat? What about the BETA numbers?
Does that make it a hit?

I donot know about marketing or projected sales or anything like that. Just curious thats all.
I guess I'd like to buy a real winner this time. The 'other' two games I bought, (that I thought would be winners) are really nice coasters. LOL

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

These numbers are great. Even if we consider for a second that everyone being connected to the internet and word being passed around much more these days, 3.5 million is a fantastic figure. Beta numbers do not reflect sales, as these are numbers from more dedicated gamers. Besides, not everyone who wanted a key, got it. Youd have to go through some channels (website, forum, know-someon-who-knows-someone).

Take this into consideration. The number of servers for both BF2 and BF2142 was tenfold smaller (at least) compared to retail server count, not even going to the difference between player count.

[Vreki]

Re: Amazing Bad Company 2 Beta and Demo Statistics - 3.5 Million Participants

Other then that, I believe the reason has to do with marketing data. Someone a very long time ago posted about how Tuesdays are the ideal days to release in the US and Cananda, but in Europe this is not the case due to some strange reason and Fridays are the better day there. I tend to believe that one more than the others.

I think this one sounds true:

Europe is later, because our Charts week start counting on a Friday -> which means that if it came out on a tuesday, there would only be 2 days worth of sales counted

And Games companies like to give the chart position in the first week to shareholders etc

Of course the rational thing would be to release it earlier in Europe, e.g. yesterday