When I try playing it only shows a few servers with people playing. I tried clearing the filters and no luck. The only 64 player match isn't even a match with vets stomping the newbs in the spawn. So I gave up on the game.

@Snookies12

I can see why you didn't like the DLC, mainly cause most of them sucked except for the "Back to Kirkland, and Aftermath" DLC. As far as "How" they do there DLC, I love it. It insures that you'll be playing there game for a year+, something other FPS struggle with. Other titles become stale with there DLC cause it just new maps, but BF3's DLC adds, new war zones, new vehicles, new weapons, and new experiences.

But hey, that just IMO...

@ flankhim

I'm really confused by that. Maybe because you have absolutely no dlc? Even that shouldn't make a difference since a lot still only have B2K.

Make sure under amount of players select ONLY 48 and 64. That seems to make a big difference for me sometimes. Then of course once the server list pops up sort it by the amount of players.

All I play is hardcore which is supposedly even more limited and I can find about 5 or 6 64 player rooms that are close to being full around the clock.

And that is limited to a searching within the US and Canada....

@snookies & Flankhim

I understand your hate for dlc the way they do it.

I would like to let you know i bought the game for 50 bucks and it included bf3 and all 5 expansions.. .or is it 6 i dunno.

but for the money. this is the deepest game i have ever played in terms of sheer content.
every level is meticulously crafted piece by piece, there are SO many guns vehicles, gadgets, attachments, scopes, upgrades, tactics, gamemodes, maps, its fukin bonkers.

I have played at least 200 hrs of bf3 and just the other day i ended up in a map i had never been to before. not to mention the sheer size of each map. you have so many choices that you never really get bored, so you mastered c4 well why not attach it to your buggy. or your helicopter or your buddies helicopter. or your mav, or your eod bot or your boat, or your jet or your apc, or your tank. why not parachute into a building you wouldn't otherwise have access to.

ive never felt i got so much value from a software purchase period. though i dont like origin i must admit they really have a cash cow with bf3 its just an ace in the frakkin hole.

as for server browser dude you have to scroll down for the page to load more results. you can do that scroll down thing almost forever without filters and youll keep getting more results, once you feel you have enough results return to the top of the spreadsheet and click the titlebar of the category you would like to see the most of. for example players click on players and it will arrange them from most on top to least on bottom,, click again and it will arrange them vice versa.

I guess now we know which console version they'll be focusing on more next time.

@flankhim
Thats bullshit. Heres the server browser with vanilla maps only and 48+ players server. http://tinyurl.com/bf3serve...

@ Enemy

'I guess now we know which console version they'll be focusing on more next time.'

Let me play 'EVIL's advocate' since these are YOUR words.

Are you insinutating that the console that generated more sales should get more focus next time?

That's hilarious because the article is only talking about registered Battlelog members who were online a year later. (Totalling only 1 million B-log members across ALL platforms) Which us Not even close to the true amount of Console gamers who bought BF3.

Remember last year when even the leading Battlefield blog sites were reporting that the Xbox 360 was the leading seller of BF3 for ALL platforms. (I can't make this up)

'Battlefield 3 Xbox 360 sales top PlayStation 3 and PC combined'

'It’s clear that the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 has taken a considerable lead, outselling the PlayStation 3 and PC versions by a huge margin. In fact, the Xbox 360 version outsold the PS3 and PC versions combined.

•Xbox 360: 2.2 million
•PlayStation 3: 1.5 million
•PC: 500,000

http://bf3blog.com/2011/11/...

At the end of the day, BF3 ultimately did over 6 million on both consoles and who knows where the sales are at now that the premium edition is being sold digitally on both Xbox Live and PSN.

But, let's keep it real, it's a year later.

The top 3 games on Live are Black Ops II, Halo 4, and Minecraft (which is over 4 million sold on XBLA).

Even so Battelfield 3 is still in the top 10 on Live (it's been at #8 in the month of December)

Can't wait for the 2013 Battlefield 4 vs. Modern Warfare 4 head to head battle this November. Should be fun..

Evil

I dont know what your talking about i have at least 10 or more 64 player servers up when i search and their are far more than that up. It all depends on your connection. 100's of servers come up but my ping is really high on some of them. All so the search engine doesnt update very fast. I may pull up 10 64 player conquest servers in range of me but i have like 20 others i have saved in my history or favorites that are full and running.

i stopped playing bf3 once the dedicated servers were gone, having alot of servers run buy ignorant little brats that will kick you for killing them, or being the top player was annoying. Every night I would get kicked minimum at least once in like a 1-2 hr span.

Just goes to show where the more mature gamers really are.

While I agree that XBL is plagued with screaming mic kids, your comment wasn't all that mature, so you shouldn't talk in behalf of all these "mature gamers" you speak of.

@farhad2k8

Wow. The fact you have more agrees than disagrees is depressing. Are people really that stupid? So now we are judging what games are more mature than others?

Also, take into consideration that Sony has no killer FPS online on the PS3. Xbox has Halo 4 and Halo Reach taking huge numbers. Fact.

Hey that 50 year old man is playing kinect with his grand-daughter, how immature /s.

How so... the numbers here are only those that registered on P-stats.com and do not reflect the total amount of players playing BF3. Only those registered for the stats service. So those NOT registered wouldn't reflect.

It is like trying to count the number of players that bought the game by the amount of purchases on Amazon. And totally ignore the buyers who don't use the Amazon purchase service.

@PygmelionHunter
So, I'm not allowed to say my view on this topic?
You stated your opinion, and I'm going to respect that instead of calling you immature, unlike what you did.

@BanBrother
Your disagree's says it all.

Goodbye.

Lol, mature gamers in BF3? This is the trolliest, spammiest, commocoziest, campiest game you can buy. If you want a game with mature players, your best off avoiding twitch shooters and looking into strategy games or just games where you have to think.

That is because Battlefield is specifically designed to create the precise effect of a...well...a battlefield. COD on the other hand goes for the 'one man army' effect where every single gameplay mechanic is structured towards a much faster pace and the game coming down to body bags.

ARMA 2 is another battlefield esque game, then there is Planetside 2 which is 10x the size of battlefield with thousands of players in one game, highly recommended. Yet enjoying all these different types of games, I still think COD has something to offer, 10 minutes, get in, get out, no other game (Unreal Tournament does it quite well too) does it better.

I couldnt agree more! I only have consoles so I cant play ARMA or Planetside (have read reviews on both and they look awesome), but Battlefield is great for hunkering down for a good long competitive gaming session on a weekend. But CoD definetly offers a fun fast paced way to relax for a half hour before bed or something. There's definitley room for both games in the collection of a true competitive shooter fan.

I think your comment is also probably one of the more sensible comments Ive ever seen on this site, regarding the comparison of FPS games.

i played bf3 & cod, cod is so damn addictive,bf3 is sadly not although as you said it is indeed the more realistic fps war game out of the 2.

This isn't even accurate information. PS3 has the most players. Almost twice as much as PC sometimes. 360 is behind PS3. PC is dead last. I've been using this site for quite a while and PS3 always has the most. PC always has the least amount of players.

http://bf3stats.com/

I've seen PC have the most concurrent players plenty of times. Depends on the time of day.

EA favors sony because activision favors MS. maybe if MS was throwing some bones at EA it would be different

but now my main point you look at 2012 and PC had the most hardcore games and the best games yet console only gamers think pc gaming is dead because of piracy(when games sales were really high too).

for psn or xblive to compete with going digital day one they have to look at Steam and see how the structure works, steam has sales throughout the week. yet when a game/dlc comes out its regular price with no bonus credit towards future games, and after 3-4 months of games/dlc prices never go down. its like publishers forgot and sony and ms stopped caring.

why you think counter strike still sells till this day?

castlevania lords of shadow has 2 dlc packs for $9.99 each and game is about 2-3 years old yet both those dlc packs still regular prices.

i am hoping both ms and sony looks at steam/origins and see how digital distributions suppose to be done. selling games log after release for regular price isn't gonna get it done

also to me fellow pc gamers, i would like to ask that you not show up on each article just to say pc is better. there are some genuine great games on consoles only. don't be so close minded enjoy games no matter the platform

I Got all the dlc for 25 bucks because i ordered mine from India lol. Untill EA fixed that proxy glitch but i dont care i got premium for a steal lol and my whole giantbomb guild of 250 players lol.

Love me some PS2! It has probably been the game I have played most since I started playing it in September.

Hell I love bf3 but after purchasing Aftermath I have only played it for a hour or two. It isn't bad but all I could think about is the fact that I wanted to be playing ps2 instead :P

If you're trying to play PS2, START PLAYING ASAP! Double xp is going on until Jan 2nd and that will really help you gain some much needed certs.

PS2 is not a game. It is a game system. And if you are playing BF3 then you are likely playing it on a PS3 NOT a PS2.

Planetside 2

@Legion

Noob not knowing anything about games.
Planetside 2 = PS2 in this case

What? 14 agrees and 1 disagree to OP.

I create a reply basically just agreeing and a hour later 0 agrees and 2 disagrees?

Is n4g troll central these days? lol

You more or less implied that PS2 was so much better, that it wasn't worth playing BF2, even if that wasn't your intention.

The OP just said "If you like this, you'll also like this" but said that it was F2P and more large ("on steroids").

The best part about PS2 is that it's free! And I disagree, its not like BF3 on steroids. Its more like MAG and BF3 on steroids.

Do you need like some game cards or big harddrive for that game?

u forget pc which always wins in performance, player numbers and graphics

What is the prize? Also, Xbox 360 gamers have Halo 4 right now and Halo Reach and Halo 3 for great online shooter satisfaction.

thats funny cause the other night at my friends house it showed on halo 3 that there were 0 players online. literally 0 then we tried reach and there was 1236 players online and this was at like 8 pm. so mainly just halo 4

lol

@SUPERSONIC

Sorry but consoles loose, 24 max players cap is like a graveyard, pc version is the only one worth playing

Wii has the best graphics.

i think you mean the wii u. And you would be correct.

PC has the higher online users for BF3 than PS3, yet the PS3 automagically wins? This is probably the most retarded shit I've heard in a long awhile. Says the dumb fanboy with an Uncharted 3 avatar. Stupid saps like you soured the PS3 for me and drove me back to PC gaming.

Maverick is right. People registered for battlelog do not mean a thing on consoles. I would say 75% of the players on the consoles are not registered. I like to look at some of my stats after a match on battle log. There are not many battlelog users on the xbox when I look at my games. At least acourding to vgcharts xbox has 6.57 and PS3 has 6.14. We all know how crappy Vgcharts is but no other side keeps track of games sales that I know of.

The article has some info, nothing usefull or relivant to how well the game is doing though.

I agree.

Umm no actually PS3 has the most players. PC is dead last. Even behind 360.

http://bf3stats.com/

Wait So you purchased two additional online passes to play bf3 On ps3?

Wow you just blew my mind.

Happy new year

I also have 3 Premium memberships.

Well...not ME. I have 1. My brother in Law has one and my brother has another.

All on my PS3.

So I am guessing that yes, it does count as 3 even though only 1 of us is playing at a single time and only 1 copy was purchased.

No the online pass is open to all usernames on your ps3. U can have multiple accounts on just one online pass. Try it.

the online passes doesn't always work for all other user names on a PS3, example is White Knight Chronicles 2 where you have to buy multiple passes just to play online with multiple accounts on a single PS3 :/

I didn't realise that Xbox only lets you have one account per console.

Wow!

/sarcasm

Uh, do your research.

Accounts are "FREE" on the PS3 so it's easier to create multiple accounts.

On the 360 you NEED a gold membership for each account.

So to break it down to you, on my 360, my brother in law and my brother use MY account since they don't want to pay for a gold membership thus the "registration" only counts as 1 for BF3 on the 360 while on the PS3, since you can crate as many accounts as you want, there are then 3 on my PS3 but my brother and brother in law wanted their own characters and not have to use my account.

Hope you understand now.

Thanks for your useless comment and simple minded comment.

Horrible feature but i'd expect most families to have their own accounts.

Really? Because COD is the most played game on PS3 just like it is on 360.

But COD is trash. Jersey Shore was the most watched show at some time. But all this proves is that many of my fellow Americans are damned fools.

I have to agree with donbear. Casual human beings are interested in the stupidest crap.

Ps3 users don't have the likes of Halo 4 to play so that might be one possible explanation for the smaller numbers?

87 meta.

Septic, if I could play Halo 4 on PS3, I'd play the hell out of it, yes, but don't degrade the influence of BF3 on PS3. It's really that awesome.

87 meta? Wow! that's a good score.

I would rather play Killzone 2 or Uncharted 2 multiplayer than COD oops I mean halo 4

@rider1337

SO your agreeing that the 360 players actually have a better opinion by playing Halo 4 over BF3?

http://www.metacritic.com/g...
http://www.metacritic.com/g...
http://www.metacritic.com/g...

I mean since you clearly see legitimacy in metacritic you must now believe your opinion is inferior to those who would prefer to play Halo 4 over BF3?

No but him trying to justify the reasoning behind Xbox players not playing BF3 is laughable. BF3 is a more mature FPS whereas games like CoD and Halo are targeted towards the casual/younger audiences who can just pick up a game and be semi good at it. I mean we all know most of the Xbox community is full of teenagers who yell at the mic.

^ Battlefield, Cod and Halo are targeted at the same audience.

Your attempts to reason why Xbox players are not playing BF3 is laughable as well.

@Fatoldman

"Your attempts to reason why Xbox players are not playing BF3 is laughable as well".

If thats directed at me I wasnt attempting too.

@Riderz1337

"No but him trying to justify the reasoning behind Xbox players not playing BF3 is laughable"

Sorry buddy I think you missed the part where you didnt quite think through what you were saying and ended up trashing many great games by implying a meta score of 87 wasn't good.

Either way I had fun twisting your fanboy logic ^.^

@riderz1337
Rated M for Mature!!

All pirates get to play is the crappy campaign, so they're not a part of the statistics.

Try playing BF3 on Origin with a cracked copy and see how far you get.

Lol, if that's what you think about BF3, I'd hate to know what you think of any CoD game. Aren't you the guy who thinks Resident Evil 6 is the second best RE game next to RE5?

Yep, just checked to your comment history. Also, my god, nearly every comment you've ever made are major trolling attempts.

Have you ever played BF3?? Do you not remember the HUGE uproar that PC players constantly threw at Dice? Even PC players have known what a junk game it is!

Stop defending this atrocity of a game and look at the facts.

Don't try and post facts on this site. It has to many kids that just click disagree. The whole system is pointless.

Yup, i know how it is on this site. people cant handle the facts.

The mouse gives like... 10 times more precision for aiming.

so when you can aim with retina and voice, you'll switch to this?

Yes a mouse is easier and more accurate then a analog stick but really, it's not near as competitive or fun..

running around pointing and clicking and spinning around like a superhuman really takes the fun out of it for me..

The mouse and keyboard are best on that game for everything BUT flying. Sometimes I'll use the 360 controller throughout a whole match.
Its not as "inferior" as the PC community makes it out to be. Usually come out on the top 5 of the team when i use a controller. Just up the sensitivity a little bit and you'll do good.

Agreed.

If it were possible to use a controller with APB (the dev team purposefully binded a bunch of BS controls to the game) I would.

For games with vehicles or requiring a lot of character movement, 360 controllers really do perform well. If there were a way to get the precision of a mouse but with an 360 control layout, I would pay a lot of money for that controller

Yeah but you can't even map certain things to the controller so it is inferior. . . you can't assigned the RPG to a button lol. It's ridiculous. Don't know whther thats a bug or just retardness by DICE.

I've never seen anyone with a controller that can actually go toe to toe with a person with a mouse and keyboard.

I've seen 2 of my friends who were extremely proficient with the console version of BF3 play the PC version w/ a controller and get absolutely destroyed...

I often equate the difference in gaming performance to the difference between an Olympic sprinter and a sprinter in the Paralympics. Against people in your own division, you might appear to be a lot better, but thrown into a division that doesn't take these differences into account, you don't stand a chance.

Kinda sad though, no? I mean, xbox guys NEED a yearly release of Halo and COD games just to get excited again. While BF3 is so good that it's still amazingly strong even after 1 year (and bf4 wont be here for another).

We ps3 guys dont have time for COD. We have so much variety in games that we can't appreciate the stale taste of COD for long. Too many various games/genres to play online instead of a glorified map pack game built on a 5 year old engine.

Sorry but if I've read what you've posted correctly, you've just typed a load of nonsense.

It's not that 360 players need Halo 4, it's the fact that they HAVE the likes of Halo 4 to play in the first place. Maybe it's because of a lack of choice in aaa competitive fps' that results in more ps3 bf3 players?

You then talk about choice in games?

Also what's with the 'we ps3 guys' mentality? Isn't cod the most played game on the ps3? To be honest, your credibility is questionable considering the posts in the past so I won't take your musings that seriously.

"We ps3 guys dont have time for COD."

You don't know your brethren all that well, apparently.

Actually PS3 owners prefer COD which is the number one game on the PS3.

MAG is no longer active?? Damm. I thought that game was pretty dope. the effect sounds werent all that but it fit the game.

I still play a lot. Sabotage and Supression are active , Aquistion sometimes active , Interdiction on occassion , and once in a blue moon - Escalation !

You have to get on pretty early in the daytime for some Domination games.