Well, Battlefield 1943 has arrived today for console systems and the best news for DICE and publisher Electronic Arts is that the number of people buying the game appears to be exceeding original projections. Of course, this is great news, but it would appear that not all of the news is good.

A number of people that have purchased and downloaded Battlefield 1943 are complaining that they can’t get an open slot to play the game. This is a real problem for Battlefield 1943, as the game has no single player mode. It is multiplayer or nothing.

While some are reporting that the title itself has technical issues, the fact seems to be that the servers are just full and no slots for players are available. It seems that DICE and EA are guilty of underestimating the draw of the title and making sure that they had enough servers and slots available to handle the amount of players trying to play the game.

DICE and EA are working overtime to add additional servers to deal with the welcomed and unexpected amount of players, but this takes time. From what our sources tell us, more servers continue to be added to deal with the number of players and traffic, but it could be at least the weekend before the situation is resolved to the point where players are able to get an open slot on the server to join a match. (From our understanding the server capacity issues seem to have affected Europe more than North America, for what it is worth.)

We guess the news is really good overall, and if you have to have a problem, this might be the best problem to have. Short-term, it will make some players unhappy, but long-term the support shown for the title is a good sign for the ongoing health of the franchise. Besides, we have suggested for a long time that this is the direction that DICE should go with the franchise, as this is what users really wanted. We can’t say that we hate it when we are right.