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post #2551 of 14346
10/20/11 at 11:38am
My friend and I preordered BF3 from Newegg a while back when it was on sale for $47.99. We have never preordered from Newegg before. Anyone have any experience with Newegg game preorders? Do they ship before the official release date? or do they not ship until the actually date?
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post #2552 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:05pm
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Originally Posted by bd2003 View Post

If the MP servers arent up this weekend, then campaign.

Most likely campaign. I highly doubt EA will be able to handle this much traffic on release date.
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post #2553 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:14pm
Do you think any company will ever have a successful release day on a big name multiplayer title where the traffic is handled well? Games like COD have had 4+ launches on the same engine with the same code, yet every single time is the same server problem nonsense. You would think they could figure it out and have a successful launch?

I don't know as much about the BF history of launches or which games are using similer servers/code, but I for one will be disappointed if I can't play on release day because of server issues. In today's day and age, there is no excuse for it except being too damned cheap to pony up the cash to meet realistic estimates.
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post #2554 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:19pm
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Originally Posted by PJ_Rage View Post

Do you think any company will ever have a successful release day on a big name multiplayer title where the traffic is handled well? Games like COD have had 4+ launches on the same engine with the same code, yet every single time is the same server problem nonsense. You would think they could figure it out and have a successful launch?

I don't know as much about the BF history of launches or which games are using similer servers/code, but I for one will be disappointed if I can't play on release day because of server issues. In today's day and age, there is no excuse for it except being too damned cheap to pony up the cash to meet realistic estimates.

If their track record is anything to go by, it's not going to work on release day.
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post #2555 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:23pm
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If their track record is anything to go by, it's not going to work on release day.

Unacceptable.
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post #2556 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:23pm
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Originally Posted by SKoprowski View Post

My friend and I preordered BF3 from Newegg a while back when it was on sale for $47.99. We have never preordered from Newegg before. Anyone have any experience with Newegg game preorders? Do they ship before the official release date? or do they not ship until the actually date?

I recently preordered Batman Arkham City (Released This Tuesday) from Newegg with a similar deal that you have preordered BF3, it is now Thursday and my game is delivered today with 3 day shipping.

The game shipped on Monday Night late from Southern CA, and I live in SW OH.
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post #2557 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:24pm
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Originally Posted by PJ_Rage View Post

Unacceptable.

All you can do is cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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post #2558 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:27pm
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Originally Posted by Hksvr4 View Post

Most likely campaign. I highly doubt EA will be able to handle this much traffic on release date.

WHAT??? BF has a campaign
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post #2559 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:33pm
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If their track record is anything to go by, it's not going to work on release day.

You got that right.
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post #2560 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:38pm
Well the beta worked on release day, and arguably more people tried the Beta than will try the actual game. I'm optimistic or the Beta was a total fail. That was the whole point to stress test the servers.
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post #2561 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:43pm
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Well the beta worked on release day, and arguably more people tried the Beta than will try the actual game. I'm optimistic or the Beta was a total fail. That was the whole point to stress test the servers.

The beta barely worked for me the day it went full public.

Let's hope they don't screw around and underestimate capacity. There's no way they can know for sure how many people will be trying to play.

But if there is any one truth in gaming, it's that major multiplayer releases have issues the first day. Everyone should be prepared for it. It'll probably be fine until peak hours on tues (after 4pm EST). Then I'd expect the issues to begin.
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post #2562 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:48pm
Actually it was very difficult to get into the beta on the 27th. You had to go through several minutes of "failed to connect" messages. And it was even more difficult to get into matches with your friends.

Of course that was supposedly the whole purpose of the beta to begin with, so I'm remaining cautiously optimistic.
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post #2563 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:51pm
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The beta barely worked for me the day it went full public.

Let's hope they don't screw around and underestimate capacity. There's no way they can know for sure how many people will be trying to play.

But if there is any one truth in gaming, it's that major multiplayer releases have issues the first day. Everyone should be prepared for it. It'll probably be fine until peak hours on tues (after 4pm EST). Then I'd expect the issues to begin.

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Actually it was very difficult to get into the beta on the 27th. You had to go through several minutes of "failed to connect" messages. And it was even more difficult to get into matches with your friends.

Of course that was supposedly the whole purpose of the beta to begin with, so I'm remaining cautiously optimistic.

Agreed it took longer, but I was able to play every day. Tuesday and Thursday were the worst, but again, I was able to play. Getting in with friends was easier later that 2nd week. We shall see here shortly
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post #2564 of 14346
10/20/11 at 12:59pm
I'm sure we'll be able to play in some capacity, especially the midnighters and early birds.

Most likely there's just some hiccups, random disconnects, party issues and temporary downtime. I don't think it'll be that bad, but I'll be surprised if they make it through peak time on launch night without a hitch.
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post #2565 of 14346
10/20/11 at 1:14pm
Servers down = reason for a campaign.

This is also a big reason why I'm not planning on taking off work next week. Especially Tuesday. Thursday may be the best day to actually play without hiccups. It gives EA a couple days to fix day 1 issues and beats the weekend crowd.
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post #2566 of 14346
10/20/11 at 1:23pm
I didn't finish the BC2 campaign until about 4 months ago....
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post #2567 of 14346
10/20/11 at 2:38pm
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Originally Posted by dobieck1 View Post

Well the beta worked on release day, and arguably more people tried the Beta than will try the actual game. I'm optimistic or the Beta was a total fail. That was the whole point to stress test the servers.

The beta did not work for me the first day. Nothing but problems. I was able to get on after several hours of trying.

If the regular launch is like the beta launch, I'm going to be really pissed off. Read: not surprised... pissed off.
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post #2568 of 14346
10/20/11 at 2:50pm
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Originally Posted by PJ_Rage View Post

The beta did not work for me the first day. Nothing but problems. I was able to get on after several hours of trying.

If the regular launch is like the beta launch, I'm going to be really pissed off. Read: not surprised... pissed off.

Better have a backup plan.

Thankfully, I have campaign or (more likely) Ace Combat
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post #2569 of 14346
10/20/11 at 4:24pm
Gears 3 after campaign if there is stil server issues.
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post #2570 of 14346
10/20/11 at 5:43pm
As I stated, the Beta arguably had more users on day 1 trying to get on, and everyone got to play. There was some waiting time yes. By the end of the Beta, we had no trouble getting in (aside from squads breaking but that was by design). They know how many beta users they had during the peak, they know how many pre-orders they have, they surely can project how many people will be playing. I have faith it will work fairly well day 1. In that regard, the Beta will have paid off.
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post #2571 of 14346
10/20/11 at 6:16pm
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Originally Posted by dobieck1 View Post

As I stated, the Beta arguably had more users on day 1 trying to get on, and everyone got to play. There was some waiting time yes. By the end of the Beta, we had no trouble getting in (aside from squads breaking but that was by design). They know how many beta users they had during the peak, they know how many pre-orders they have, they surely can project how many people will be playing. I have faith it will work fairly well day 1. In that regard, the Beta will have paid off.

We'll see. It seems that no matter how prepared they ever are, it's never enough. They always seem to under estimate.

I stand by day 1 of the beta being AWFUL. I seriously doubt the launch could be that bad. From like 1pm until 9:30pm the servers were completely down. Starting at like 8pm you could try over and over and over and over and maybe get in. I wouldn't call that a success.
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post #2572 of 14346
10/20/11 at 6:18pm
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Originally Posted by PJ_Rage View Post

We'll see. It seems that no matter how prepared they ever are, it's never enough. They always seem to under estimate.

I stand by day 1 of the beta being AWFUL. I seriously doubt the launch could be that bad. From like 1pm until 9:30pm the servers were completely down. Starting at like 8pm you could try over and over and over and over and maybe get in. I wouldn't call that a success.

I think our day 1's were different, mine was Tuesday, and Thursday was the day 1 public, I didn't try until maybe 9 or 10. I think I got in but solo. Anyway, Thursday was the worst, hopefully they have learned and make the necessary adjustments.
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post #2573 of 14346
10/20/11 at 6:54pm
I've been disappointed too many times by games not working day one. Whether or not it had a beta is usually irrelevant, plenty of games have had betas only to crash and burn spectacularly on day one. They always underestimate demand. Always. We'll see if this one bucks the trend.
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post #2574 of 14346
10/20/11 at 7:39pm
Buying BF3 gets you into the Mass Effect 3 beta

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post #2575 of 14346
10/21/11 at 4:48am
I didn't watch the whole thing, but it seemed legit from what I did see... why the rolly eyes with respect to the mass effect 3 beta?
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post #2576 of 14346
10/21/11 at 5:50am
One thing I noticed on the box was it showing DTS, I hope the 360 version has this available.

James
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post #2577 of 14346
10/21/11 at 5:58am
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One thing I noticed on the box was it showing DTS, I hope the 360 version has this available.

James

I seriously, seriously doubt it. 360 does Dolby digital only for games.
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post #2578 of 14346
10/21/11 at 6:12am
BD,

You may very well be correct on that. I was doing some quick looking around since I have never seen DTS on a 360 game. I did run across the below information (which does mention movies) so I guess we will see. Not a deal breaker at all for me but DTS would be nice.

James

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906660

Playback of DTS (Digital Theatre Surround) 5.1 media (such as movies) by passing the encoded DTS digital bitstream to an external DTS decoder

From Wiki:
"Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are capable of DTS decoding and output via TOSLINK or HDMI as LPCM. However, HDMI output on the Xbox 360 is only found on the "Elite" model and newer models available since mid-2007, with the release of the Falcon chipset."
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post #2579 of 14346
10/21/11 at 6:22am
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Originally Posted by exojam View Post

BD,

You may very well be correct on that. I was doing some quick looking around since I have never seen DTS on a 360 game. I did run across the below information (which does mention movies) so I guess we will see. Not a deal breaker at all for me but DTS would be nice.

James

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906660

Playback of DTS (Digital Theatre Surround) 5.1 media (such as movies) by passing the encoded DTS digital bitstream to an external DTS decoder

From Wiki:
"Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are capable of DTS decoding and output via TOSLINK or HDMI as LPCM. However, HDMI output on the Xbox 360 is only found on the "Elite" model and newer models available since mid-2007, with the release of the Falcon chipset."

It's a low level system thing. The Dolby digital encoder is at the OS level, capable of mixing in XBL chat voices, notifications, etc. There's no DTS encoder that I know of on the 360.

I'm sure it can pass through a pre-encoded DTS stream from a DVD, but it's incapable of encoding one in realtime.

PS3 is usually capable of passing an uncompressed 192khz/24 7.1 signal over HDMI. The 360 could probably do the same if they ever update the OS to allow it.
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post #2580 of 14346
10/21/11 at 6:23am
What makes DTS preferable to DD? I was always under the impression they were kinda like six of one, half a dozen of the other.
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