Battlefield 3 marches on 8 million sales
Eight million virtual soldiers have now deployed their money to the hands of merchants to buy Battlefield 3 and enlist in the virtual war, publisher Electronic Arts has revealed. If that figure were in elephants, it'd be eight million elephants.
Eight million virtual soldiers have now deployed their money to the hands of merchants to buy Battlefield 3 and enlist in the virtual war, publisher Electronic Arts has revealed. To put that figure into perspective, if it were in elephants, it'd be eight million elephants.
The revelation came from EA CFO Eric Brown during the Baird Technology Conference yesterday, Game Informer reports. Brown also noted that twelve million units have shipped in total; ten million of those had been shipped after the first week on sale.
After all the public bickering and squabbling between publishers, EA didn't come close to matching Activision's remarkable performance with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3--though this was undoubtedly expected. MW3 sold a whopping estimated 6.5 million units within the first 24 hours in the US and UK alone, and made $775 million within five days.
Developer DICE is continuing to work on fixing Battlefield 3 up. A hefty patch hit PlayStation 3 today and is due in Xbox 360 "soon." Beyond that, you may be surprised, shocked and astonished to hear that EA wants to make more Battlefield.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Battlefield 3 marches on 8 million sales.
Eight million virtual soldiers have now deployed their money to the hands of merchants to buy Battlefield 3 and enlist in the virtual war, publisher Electronic Arts has revealed. If that figure were in elephants, it'd be eight million elephants.-
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http://bf3stats.com/api
Sure it's not the complete picture, but given that PC players can only have a single soldier nowadays, it's probably a good picture of the puzzle.
I know that the third party stat guys used to have a running tally of total players for BFBC2 broken down by platform, but I'm not seeing that on the bf3stats site yet.-
Ahh, didn't see that they added leaderboards.
Looks like only 250k PC players have visited the site compared to 50K 360 players and 85k PS3 players.
So it's definitely a small portion of the playing public.
Though I suppose if everyone registered with the site we'd have the best idea of wtf is going on in sell-through.
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850k boxed retail, not counting digital sales. The DD figure has to be huge
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http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales-data/35315/battlefield-3/
757k, not counting DD. I'd say the DD has to be large, I don't know anyone personally that didn't buy it digitally -
correction + citation forthcoming..oops
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They need to tell us PC sales INCLUDING the digital ones. Surely this sold extremely well on PC?
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It sold close to a million in a month, i'd say it was hugely successful on the PC. Obviously consoles sold more.
This goes to show that developers showing PC users respect pays off. Shitty console ports need not apply :)
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Lets go stat whores, show off your shittiness!
http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/dedgecko/history#spm,kdr,wlr-
http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/Dudeman-Actual
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yours are way better than mine, my KD is shit. i kinda suck at the game TBH, but I FUCKING LOVE IT. I play recon mostly, or drive shit and blow up cars so i tell myself the quality of my kills makes up for the quantity. that gets me through the day, and lets me sleep most nights. most, but not all......
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http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/vitek%20r
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http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/medster/
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Yes, show us your level 33 guy which you spent 2 entire real world days in game with :p
Not shitty at all dude :)
Shitty is a guy with a family and a job, struggling along at level 11 (me)
http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/rheaume_72-
Family + Job + 3-4 hours a night and a long weekend before Thanksgiving with the house to myself = http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/Zakko42
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Family + job + playing a couple hours at night after the wife and kids are asleep.
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40 hours and 39 :/
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http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/Supalink/history#spm,kdr,wlr I like to knife.
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http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/comiekazie#spm,kdr,wlr
I prefer BF3S.com though, because the former won't filter my stats correctly. The PKP is always stuck mid stack when you filter for kills, I have ~1500 versus ~300 for my next best.
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What loadout are you using for the a-91?
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PK-A, Foregrip, Heavy Barrel. For close to mid range I aim at the collar bone and shoot quick bursts letting the natural rise of the weapon to work its way up and score a HS. Single shot for long range, which the A-91 is fully capable of, letting the sights settle before shooting again.
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Which weapons do you use?
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Just get somone to smoke the stairs on Metro/conquest and walk up sighted in, mass kills. Do the same for Utility hall if you manage to cap B. If you're Russian you can do the reverse somewhat less effectively. Alternatively you can make a hard push on the central escalator (the one furthest in near the ticket booth) with smoke and push a squad to either flank through the defenders on B or, if you're lucky, sneak up to A.
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agreed :)
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I download at 100kb/s and already took like 3 days of using my full internet connection speed to download the game. I finally got Origin to recognize the files but now when I open Battlelog it tells me there is a Game Update available so i click download update. All it does is open Origin again and nothing happens. I even did a Repair Install in Origin and getting the same result. ˃:(
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I got it from amazon as well. After doing the full download from the amazon downloader, it basically just reinstalled Origin (had it from the beta already, it reinstalled it) and then Origin asked me for the key, and downloaded the entire game again inside Origin, with no acknowledgement of the Amazon download. It was kind of stupid and annoying, but my connection is very fast and it went pretty quick.
I dont know what to tell you other than its probably just the way Origin is made because it did it to me as well, but that sucks if you are metered or have a slower download speed.
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Best Battlefield ever. It's just such a fantastic game and I have a ton of fun playing.
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I could do without the IRNV, it could be completely removed from the game and I would not weep.
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It's good but the maps are the worst of the series.
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I agree with this. The really big conquest maps are fine with 64 players, but the rest are better with 32. I also miss the variety in BC2. There are no snow, jungle, or desert maps in BF3. Everything is in a city or industrial yard, and every building is a concrete box. BC2 had huts, and houses, and barns. It was more natural and immersive.
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That an expansion pack so it doesn't count.
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Still $29 at Fry's. Sale ends tomorrow. :[
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I did. Just finished my platoon emblem. :[
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Good. DICE deserves it. If they are at 8 now then they will surely break 10 over the next six months, probably much sooner. Modern Warfare 3 may move 20 mil units but 10+ is still phenomenal. Battlefield now has a seat at the main table. Moreover, BF is the healthier franchise over the long term. It's is more adaptable to change. It can flex and grow. CoD is firmly wedded to CoD4's gameplay. Activision won't touch it and will continue to ride it just like they did with their music/rhythm games.
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If you're playing MW3 instead of BF3, to quote the illustrious Reggie Fils-Aime: "whats wrong with you?"
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so it made close to $500 million dollars, crazy
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