21 hours on from the launch of the Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC beta, gaming service provider Multiplay has revealed the first set of stats following Fridays launch.

\"We\'ve never seen demand like it,\" says Craig Fletcher, Managing Director. \"At our peak, we were connecting 10,000 people per second and we managed the demand better than other servers, many of whom were down for hours when demand surged. If there was ever any doubt that our infrastructure and technology in Fileplay was anything other than best in its class, the past 16 hours have proved it.\"
Key stats

Over 100,000 new Multiplay Member Accounts created
Over 10,000 user connections per second at peak
10,000 keys distributed in under 3 hours
30,000 files served over night (45 Terabytes of data so approx 5000 DVDs)
6,000 player slots on European Game servers solidly full