Numbers this year.
After more than a year since its debut in stores, Battlefield 3 is still one of the most played FPS in the world.
The merit of DICE is without a doubt to have been able to offer additional content to the title are able to keep the interest that is added to the support provided by the Swedish team to the community of players. But how many and how they are distributed across platforms?
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This is coming from someone who tends to NOT like FPS games of this sort.
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...
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....
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.
Thats bullshit. Heres the server browser with vanilla maps only and 48+ players server. http://tinyurl.com/bf3serve...
'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
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.
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.
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.
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 think your comment is also probably one of the more sensible comments Ive ever seen on this site, regarding the comparison of FPS games.
http://bf3stats.com/
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
Huge maps with thousands of players and hundreds of vehicles.
http://www.planetside2.com/
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.
Noob not knowing anything about games.
Planetside 2 = PS2 in this case
I create a reply basically just agreeing and a hour later 0 agrees and 2 disagrees?
Is n4g troll central these days? lol
The OP just said "If you like this, you'll also like this" but said that it was F2P and more large ("on steroids").
Sorry but consoles loose, 24 max players cap is like a graveyard, pc version is the only one worth playing
The article has some info, nothing usefull or relivant to how well the game is doing though.
happy new year everyone
http://bf3stats.com/
I have 3 accounts on the PS3 and each one has a different user.
Wow you just blew my mind.
Happy new year
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.
Wow!
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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.
SO your agreeing that the 360 players actually have a better opinion by playing Halo 4 over BF3?
http://www.metacritic.com/g...
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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?
Your attempts to reason why Xbox players are not playing BF3 is laughable as well.
"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 ^.^
Rated M for Mature!!
Yep, just checked to your comment history. Also, my god, nearly every comment you've ever made are major trolling attempts.
Stop defending this atrocity of a game and look at the facts.
As of now.
PS3: 60,550
PC: 42,625
360: 38,634
PC may be the home of battlefield, but it sure as hell isn't as popular on the PC as it is the PS3.
Great game. . .let down by most of the people playing it like it's an old fashioned game - instead of using an intuitive controller.
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..
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
You don't know your brethren all that well, apparently.
off topic.. Far Cry 3 multiplayer would've been a whole lot better if they went the battlefield way, using similar game modes to bf, taking advantage of the vehicles. but they went the cod way.
You have to get on pretty early in the daytime for some Domination games.
Time to build my first gaming PC