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EA Servers are back online now. However EA servers will be reset tomorrow morning at 8:00 GMT/9:00 CET/Midnight PST for maintenance.

about 1 hours ago via TweetDeck

http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2

EA servers are currently down stopping login to a number of EA games. EA is investigating and will be back online as soon as possible.

18 minutes ago via TweetDeck

http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2

EAIT is working hard to improve server stability. They will do a restart of the master servers around 0800 GMT tomorrow (that is, in 6 hours time from now).

Sorry about the short notice.

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Bazajaytee
DICE
If you see this error and you know who the server admins are then ask them to restart their server. The message is caused by an error on the server side with PB and a restart will clear up the problem.

If you do not know the admin of the server then please find another server to play on.

We are working with Evenbalance to find the cause of this INIT failure and will hopefully get a solution soon.
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Bazajaytee
DICE
Depending on your host we have given some providers a different version of PB to help pinpoint what the cause is.

As you say a reboot is a temporary fix but some hadn't seen this and we get a lot of questions about PB INIT which is why this is now a sticky even though it is "old news" for some.
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Every time an FKR Member, Admin or RCON see that a server is empty, it gets restarted. This alleviates the problem for the short term, but is necessary to do on a regular basis through out the entire day.

Yesterday they gave us the option to turn off PunkBuster. FKR has always been about Quality verses Quantity. FKR Members have already seen suspected players with what appear to be game hacks while playing. That just reinforces the need to install PBBANs (which was scheduled to take place this week anyway). This is a service with live streaming and live banning of players running cheats.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Server Update (2010-03-07)

* BY: GordonVanDyke
* POSTED: Mar 07, 2010, 12:37PM
* TOTAL VIEWS: 8
* COMMENTS: 19

After optimizations and restarts yesterday, we had been stable across all platforms. Unfortunately, we encountered another outage at approximately 9:30 AM PST today.

- X360 was severely impacted, and the service is being restarted. It should be back online and we are monitoring closely.
- PC had an outage, but the service is offline currently and the service is being restarted. It should be back online and we are monitoring closely. We will then start checking the quality of the customer experience to determine possible next steps.
- PS3 appeared to have a brief outage, but has quickly recovered and the services is functioning properly at this time.


All teams are actively engaged in diagnosis and remediation. We are adding additional services to alleviate load. Despite having a major infrastructure in place, the peak traffic this weekend has been huge, 400% higher than any other Battlefield's peak simultaneous users. The teams will continue to monitor the services closely. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and will provide further updates on the latest developments as they are relevant.

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