After a chaotic launch that rendered the game unplayable for many, EA has committed to delivering Australian servers for Battlefield 1943.
Following up his hopeful post from yesterday, DICE producer Gordon Van Dyke has now confirmed local servers are on the way. On the official orums, he wrote:
“Australian Servers are Happening! I got official word this will happen within the next few days! So if you already bought it this should make your experience 1,000,000,000,000 times better!”
Fantastic news. Especially considering what he wrote next:
“I had to fight hard to get this after we got the sales numbers and Australia had really low sales numbers, it was 8 times less than Japan, 24 times less than the UK, and 34 times less than the USA! I hope I see this change so I can add even more servers in your region!”
So, let’s get this straight. BF1943 sells badly in Australia and EA still decides to get us some local servers? I kinda like this new EA.
Although I guess many of you may have been holding off after hearing about the launch problems. Are you now keen to give it a try?
Australian Servers are Happening [EA forums]
Craig
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 2:24 AMBeen playing it solidly for the last 2 days (in Aus, on XBL) performance is great, I’m loving it.
Peter
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 12:23 PMEA, don’t whinge about low sales figures. Remember BF Bad Company? Just think of the 1943 servers as making up for ruining -that- multiplayer experience.
murorder
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 10:50 AMBad lag=low sales=no servers
Local servers=no lag= high sales in Australia
We here in Australia have been saying this for frickin years. If all xbox live multi-player games had local searchs, more people would enjoy it,buy more EA games, thus inproving the overall sales profit for Aussie game sales. dar. Thank God for GDV, he is a legend!!!!!!
xtreemjuicyness
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:10 PMholy shit am i the only aussie who bought it on the second it was released..
soo soo glad that thers aussie servers up now omg im an sooooooo glad..
uk and US servers just piss me off..
so so laggy like 3 second bullet laggy..
Rusty
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 10:26 PM**** EA GAMES LISTEN UP ****
Iv’e Played bf1942 for years. I would love to get bf1943 but all my local games shops dont have it on their new release list..??? Today 6th July EB GAMES even told me they dont think they will stock it !!!! So where do I buy BF1943…..
Iv’e got the money and no one can sell it to me…. WHATS GOIN ON EA SACK YOUR MARKETING TEAM !!! THEN YOU WILL SELL SOME COPIES…