» Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:54 am
At first I couldnt figure out why I cant connect to a game, at first unofficial servers worked before I enabled port fowarding, After I enabled all the listed TCP and UDP ports I could connect to most Official servers. Then it just stopped connecting to anything, now I think that the problem is the login / account server is over loaded.
I did a small bit of math to ruffly estimate how many people actually connect to those servers to login and register their progress.
The last time I was able to login 8hours ago, there was around 3000 servers listed in the browser, a Small percent of those are empty. so lets say 2580 total servers all of which have 16players in (remember this is a estimate) so. 2580*16 is around 25000. Sounds about right for the first month of the game lets say that their is a range of 25,000 to 40,000 per platform. Being PC, Xbox, PS. That range is now 75,000 to about 140,000 round up on the highend.
If the base servers that all players must connect to inorder to track, update, and configure their player are unable to handle a few hundred thousand connections simultaneously then they should be upgraded.
Seeing as EA is a Fortune500 company in a 8billion dollar industry there should be no excuse for these problems.
I have opened the ports suggested leaving my system open to attack and intrusion.
The Following ports are:
TCP - 80, 443, 64100, 6667, 29900, 2990, 2891
UDP - 27900, 27901, 64100
and still i cant connect to a game, if I do and it doesnt crash my game immediately! I get kicked out after about a minute. If im lucky enough to get into a game and manage some how by the grace of god theres little to no chance that if i leave ill be able to get back into that same game or another one.
If the servers are working, and are not loaded/bogged down then what in the name of all that is good and holy is the problem? I would like to be able to play my game that I spent my money on so I dont feel like I'm being took for a ride. -thats my quote I felt that it pretty much expressed how I feel, if anything. Im glad that crytek is working on the problems I'm sure that I speak for alot of other when I say I just want to play my game.