Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sells 2.3 million copies in two weeks. 2.9 million online hours played so far

19 March 2010

Posted by:Josh

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has sold over 2.3 million units in only two weeks announced publisher Electronic Arts!

With that kind of breakout success, coming right on the heels of last year’s Modern Warfare 2 smash, a new titan rivalry has truly begun between the two publishers.

Although Battlefield: Bad Company 2 didn’t comes close to matching Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′s opening numbers (over 4.7 million copies sold in TWENTY-FOUR HOURS), it’s still a mammoth number for a game that was highly praised and favorably reviewed. It was released on March 2 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

To help promote the milestone, EA and Swedish developer DICE studio announced some numbers to drive it home.

To date, more than 43 million weapons and 81 billion points have been unlocked in the game’s online multiplayer mode. Which peaked at 230,000 concurrent users. And in terms of online hours played, over 2.9 million player hours have been logged on the game’s servers so far.

And dedicated servers, something that Battlefield: Bad Company 2′s PC version supports, was likely a large factor in the success of their PC version. It is something that EA touted to differentiate Bad Company 2 from Modern Warfare 2, which abolished dedicated servers for its PC version in favor of IWnet (believed by many to be a precursor to a subscription-based service).