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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BF3Posted:

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

huluPosted:

And also to people saying little children play CoD, just quit your bitchin' and play the game. Im 16, does that make me a little child? No. So, shut up and play the game? Im really sick of whiners.

huluPosted:

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.

madas12340Posted:

Ambicidal The Battlefield 3 Beta wasn't actually a beta, but stage 3 alpha, that's why it was so buggy.

TBH I hope Battlefield 3 earns lots of money for their game, but I also hope the children that play Call of Duty will stay far from this game.


agreed

AmbicidalPosted:

The Battlefield 3 Beta wasn't actually a beta, but stage 3 alpha, that's why it was so buggy.

TBH I hope Battlefield 3 earns lots of money for their game, but I also hope the children that play Call of Duty will stay far from this game.

JoshPropsPosted:

That is really surprizing wow 2million more pre-orderd it wow

I_MAKE_IT_RAINPosted:

So only 1/4 people who played the beta got the game...wow people cancelled there pre-order. Im one of those people. ;)

KlutchizzPosted:

Happy_Hustlin i know for a fact 32 of my friends downloaded and played the beta. only 3 are actually getting the game. Of course people are playing the beta right now just because its in between gaming seasons and it was new. Beta numbers mean nothing, only there to help out developers.
P.s. Fix the under the map **** every other step


They said they fixed Almost every bug already. (the game will have a day 1 patch to fix the rest they couldn't fix before release)

BF3Posted:

Happy_Hustlin i know for a fact 32 of my friends downloaded and played the beta. only 3 are actually getting the game. Of course people are playing the beta right now just because its in between gaming seasons and it was new. Beta numbers mean nothing, only there to help out developers.
P.s. Fix the under the map **** every other step


the under the map bugs were fixed when the beta was available, the beta was a older version of the game and that's why their was lots of bugs

KlutchizzPosted:

Nice Dice, preordered for pc and bout to preorder xbox.
:D


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