It's no secret that the BF:BC2 servers were down for maintenance on Tuesday, but since then players around the world have been experiencing disconnection messages that read "failure to create account" when attempting to log into the game for the first time using their EA account. The issue has been reported to occur for all three systems, but so far EA has offered no solution.
But I found one!
This solution is written for a PS3 owner, but has worked for 360 owners as well (no word on if it will work for the PC yet). Just substitute "playsation store" for XBL.
Go to the Playstation Store and download the Fight Night Round 4 demo. Start it up and finish the tutorial, then go to the bottom of the main menu where it says "Sign Into EA". Click that and enter a password that you would like to use (I just used EA.com password for easy memory). It will create your account there. Then you can go back to the BFBC2 beta and you will sign in automatically.
