Beta Crazy!
Posted by Waz on 29th Jan 2010

21 hours into the Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC beta and the stat crunchers have been crunching those stats. Here's what we know.

"We've never seen demand like it," says Craig Fletcher, Managing Director, Multiplay. "At our peak, we were connecting 10,000 people per second - and we managed the demand better than other servers, many of whom were down for hours when demand surged. If there was ever any doubt that our infrastructure and technology in Fileplay was anything other than best in its class, the past 16 hours have proved it."

Key stats (as of 2:00pm 29/01/2010):

* Over 1 million page views to Multiplay over night
* Over 100,000 new Multiplay Member Accounts created
* Over 10,000 user connections per second at peak
* 10,000 keys distributed in under 3 hours
* 30,000 files served over night (45 Terabytes of data so approx 5000 DVDs)
* 6,000 player slots on our European Game servers solidly full.
* Multiplay quadrupled Fileplay's web serving capacity in under 2 hours to deal with the huge surge in demand.

Furthermore, Fileplay.com will be releasing more keys soon. Watch this space.

Oh and this guy obviously likes the beta. He makes some great points too: