Battlefield 1 sprouted mixed reactions from fans, but most first person shooter fans agreed that the concept was great and worth exploring.
In fact, the popularity of the World War 1 shooter was so great that EA's servers were unable to cope with the huge amount of players who rushed in during the open beta stage of the game.
Although it initially seemed that only Battlefield 1 was affected, the gaming company explained in a tweet that multiple titles were having issues.
EA is currently experiencing an outage. EA games, services & support may be impacted. We’re working to resolve as fast as possible.
— EA Support (@AskEASupport) August 31, 2016
The message from the EA Support Twitter account confirmed that the company was making efforts to have all systems operational as quickly as possible.
Seeing how Battlefield 1 created quite some hype due to its action intensive trailers and unique historical period where the action takes place, it was to be expected for a large number of players to jump on board.
By playing the open beta, Battlefield 1 fans embark in two modes that take place in one of the game's Sinai Desert maps.
The closed beta took place on Aug. 30 and fared smoothly, but gamers started to have difficulties when the open beta debuted the next day. The reason for this might be the wide pool of users who simultaneously logged in, although speculations loomed that hacker hands were involved in EA servers crashing.
Specifically, a big number of Battlefield 1 testers were greeted with a "Failed to connect to EA Online" message. This was quite a serious matter, as the game is an online-only multiplayer beta and no server connection implies zero play time, to the dismay of gamers everywhere.
At the time, players from all platforms reported the issue, regardless if they were loading the game on PC or Xbox One. Some matchmaking fails were also reported. As gamers do, the Battlefield forums started piling up complaints and rants about the problem, with PlayStation 4 gamers chiming in and affirming that their ecosystem have been facing the same problem as the other two.
In a response to the issue, the official Battlefield account notes that they are investigating the situation.
Battlefield 1 open beta started officially on Aug. 31, in the wake of a short early access period. No official announcement was made about the duration of the open beta, but based on previous experiences, the longer the beta, the better the final installment tends to be.
The beta is open for all gaming platforms, which should also help polish the final release.
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