"Battlefield 1" players are still riding high on the game's momentum especially after such a strong opening, but a lot of people have been having a hard time getting into the game's servers yesterday. There's been a server outage affecting EA Origins and Access, preventing players from logging in.
Express reports that "Battlefield 1" players in North America and the UK could not access EA's servers to play the game yesterday. EA's tech support account on Twitter says that it is currently investigating the difficulty of logging into the servers in general, but did not acknowledge the specific outage that has been happening since yesterday. The company also did not project how long the servers will be down.
Gaming Respawn also confirms that the problem is not just confined to "Battlefield 1." "FIFA 17" players have also been having a hard time going online to play the game, and this has apparently been the third time the servers have gone down this week. When the servers are down, this leaves players unable to play the games at all, even if they weren't going to play multiplayer online.
Meanwhile, "Battlefield 1" had such a strong launch that it derailed the sales figures of "Titanfall 2," another big EA title this year. Forbes questions the lack of wisdom EA showed in releasing "Titanfall 2" so soon after "Battlefield 1," when the former wasn't so strong a franchise as the latter.
EA defends its move in claiming that the two games foster two completely different markets, one is a WW1 shooter and the other is sci-fi, but the problem is players get the title that comes out first. It's possible that players would want to play both "Battlefield 1" and "Titanfall 2," but not everyone has those resources to get both at the same time.
