EA Downtime - a fix in sight?

Tomorrow, 12th March, and Saturday, 13th March at 8:00GMT/9:00 CET:12:00 (midnight) PST, EA will take the servers down, this time we will come up with even more hardware with more capacity to handle all the BFBC2 traffic. Once the maintenance is complete you will experience an improvement to your online experience.

This will be extended maintenance to allow the new hardware to be installed and affect all three platforms (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360).

Since launch a week ago, BFBC2 has already put EA servers through the following stress:

• The 4 different soldier types have gathered a score of more than 34 Billion.
• There's been more than 400M kills made.
• 1.3M roadkills
• Squads and Teams have assisted each other to 6.2 Billion points.

Now we are adding more capacity to let you smash those numbers multiple times over in the weeks to come.

EA are finally spending some money - good news. All we need now is a sort of the auto balance server code, bloom fix and in my opinion we're set

Edit - clarification: Servers will be going down at 8am today and tomorrow they won't be down over night.

I have mixed feelings, why the hell are they doing this on a weekend?!? Oh well there doing it and soon (Hopefully) trying to get into a game won't be such a hard time! lol

Fixing the back end should solve a lot of the connection issues, although I doubt it'll fix the server crashing issues, unless it crashes because it loses connection to the master servers. It'll still be far from perfect, but it's a start.