DICE boss Patrick Soderlund in a recent interview when asked about the maximum number of players for the online portion of the game. The game and engine could support up to 256 players, but when they tried and played it with that many players, it wasn’t fun.
A lot of people ask us about 64 versus 128 or 256 players. Technically, we can go to 256, we’ve tried it. We play tested with 128. You’ve got to make a game that’s fun to play. And, arguably, we think that the most fun you can have is when it’s between 32 and 40 players. And we’ve done substantial research into this and tested 128 and that it’s not fun. Maybe we haven’t done our design work good enough, but we just feel like there’s no point in going higher than 64.
So while yes the game could support that many players, but they decided against it since it wouldn’t be as fun. Also good news that they really are making the PC crowd happy, because the last Battlefield game which as Bad Company 2, had been scaled down like the console version of the game.
So it just goes to show you that MAG isn’t the only game that can handle 256 player online battles, Battlefield 3could, if DICE really wanted to.
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