Battlefield Play4Free closed beta granted 'access' to 600K participants
Battlefield Play4Free senior producer James Salt told us this week at GDC that the game'sclosed beta granted access to 600,000 participants; who obviously weren't all online at the same time. He explained that's why for the open beta, starting in April, Easy studio is planning a staggered launch, to avoid a massive "day one" spike of concurrent players that would crash the game.
Asked about a Mac version of the free-to-play title, Salt said the game runs on the fifth generation of the Battlefield engine, which was designed for PC. Even if a Mac version could be ported, the update schedule required for a title like this would necessitate a seperate Mac team at Easy for the game -- which isn't currently in place.
"It still might happen," Salt added. "But it's going to be quite a fight to make it be [on Mac]."
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/03/ba...to-600k-parti/
