Battlefield 3: 8 Million Played the Beta & Pre-orders Exceed 2 Million

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With Battlefield 3's open beta now over with, DICE has shared a few stats from the public playtest. Over 8 million players previewed the game's Metro map, and EA has preorders for the final game already exceeding 2 million. DICE puts a few of the bigger numbers into context below: did you know that the number of people stabbed to death in the beta is equivalent to the population of Shanghai? What a morbid thought. 47 billion shots were fired in the beta, which as DICE points out would generate enough shell casings to build just shy of 4000 Flanker jets. Ever helpful, the dev also reminds readers that none of those jets would fly, because hello, you can't build a fighter plane out of shell casings. The beta's Rush mode focused on destroying M-Com stations, an objective completed successfully around 21 million times – a number equivalent to Twitter's entire active userbase. DICE's graphic breaks down a few more BF3 figures.

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Source: http://www.gamesradar.com/8-million-people-played-battlefield-3-beta-preorders-top-2-million/

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ZAttack7Posted:

I have been playing CoD since the 1st and multiplayer since the 4th and this is the first time I'm not buying a CoD game in 4 years. When I first played Bad Company 2 I thought it was trash cause I was so used to CoD but I realized Battlefield involves much more skill and teamwork. All they're doing with MW3 is copying and pasting from Modded Warfail 2 with its overpowered guns, perks, killstreaks, crappy host connection, 360 backflip quickscopes, riot shields, death streaks, overkill, and pointstreaks that keep stacking without having to do crap. THE END

OrangemohawkPosted:

PoLO212 BF3 fanboys always get butthurt.. geez even COD4 is still better than BF3..Go shove yout tanks & jets up your assh0les u BF3 noobs

COD 4 was the best of all the CODs

BF3Posted:

LuNaTiC509
BF3
DontSpamMePlease
BF3
DontSpamMePlease To the people who think BF3 will be better than MW3, you're completely wrong. Last time I checked, BF3 had 2 million pre-orders while MW3 has 9.6 million pre-orders. Sources you ask? Gamestop. Asked the friendly lady clerk there. So uh... nothing further.


Quality > Quantity


You're right, quantity over quality.


Clearly not what i said...

Not sure what you mean by quality, last time i checked every COD game has had great quality up to date. They're fun games to play and don't get old, BF3 has MW3 on graphics but it's not graphics that decide whether it's a good game or not but do play a small part. Still, i see MW3 get better ratings when it releases than BF3


Black Ops=Boring as shit, Slow Paced, Out balanced perks

MW2=Lack of online support, oma, noobtubes, dangerclose, commando etc

CoD5=OP guns and perks, bad hit detection, majority of people enjoyed zombies more than multiplayer

The last 'good' quality CoD game was CoD4 in my opinion.

COTD-PaP-3arcPosted:

lol two million pre orders and theyre happy? theyre probably sh**ing their pants right now hoping to get more pre orders before release. they wanted to beat out mw3, pfft theyre way behind they tried bashing mw3 and infinity ward and sledgehammer kept their cool and it paid off. MW3 FTW bf3 u dont even deserve capitals.

TheLunaticPosted:

BF3
DontSpamMePlease
BF3
DontSpamMePlease To the people who think BF3 will be better than MW3, you're completely wrong. Last time I checked, BF3 had 2 million pre-orders while MW3 has 9.6 million pre-orders. Sources you ask? Gamestop. Asked the friendly lady clerk there. So uh... nothing further.


Quality > Quantity


You're right, quantity over quality.


Clearly not what i said...

Not sure what you mean by quality, last time i checked every COD game has had great quality up to date. They're fun games to play and don't get old, BF3 has MW3 on graphics but it's not graphics that decide whether it's a good game or not but do play a small part. Still, i see MW3 get better ratings when it releases than BF3

Inception20Posted:

I_MAKE_IT_RAIN So only 1/4 people who played the beta got the game...wow people cancelled there pre-order. Im one of those people. ;)
It was a free beta. Im sure people who never intended to get BF3 played it.

GoHardcorePosted:

Lol, I always click on these things just to see the miniature CoD vs BF3 war lol.

PoLO212Posted:

BF3 fanboys always get butthurt.. geez even COD4 is still better than BF3..Go shove yout tanks & jets up your assh0les u BF3 noobs

BF3Posted:

DontSpamMePlease
BF3
DontSpamMePlease To the people who think BF3 will be better than MW3, you're completely wrong. Last time I checked, BF3 had 2 million pre-orders while MW3 has 9.6 million pre-orders. Sources you ask? Gamestop. Asked the friendly lady clerk there. So uh... nothing further.


Quality > Quantity


You're right, quantity over quality.


Clearly not what i said...

huluPosted:

BF3
DontSpamMePlease To the people who think BF3 will be better than MW3, you're completely wrong. Last time I checked, BF3 had 2 million pre-orders while MW3 has 9.6 million pre-orders. Sources you ask? Gamestop. Asked the friendly lady clerk there. So uh... nothing further.


Quality > Quantity


You're right, quantity over quality.


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