EA Servers Down for 10 Hours on Battlefield 1 Beta's First Day

Cyber-warfare in WW1.

By Joe Skrebels

On the first full day of the Battlefield 1 open beta, EA's servers appeared to be down for 10 hours or more.

A hacking group has taken responsibility for a DDOS attack that seemed to bring down the entirety of EA's Origin service.

EA Support first acknowledged problems at 7:30pm BST yesterday, and announced that they had been resolved at 4:30am BST - however, IGN could not access the Battlefield 1 beta servers from 1pm, seeming to point to at least 15 hours of downtime.

We have now been able to access working matches in the PS4 beta, and many of those who registered complaints on Twitter are saying the same.

Calls are now being made for the beta to be extended, although EA has still not made clear when the beta was set to close in the first place.

The Battlefield 1 open beta gives players access to two modes set on the game's Sinai Desert map, and can be downlaoded for free on PS4, Xbox One and PC via Origin.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he just wanted to bayonet charge a stranger. Is that too much to ask? Follow him on Twitter.

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