EOMM in Battlefield 2042?

I’m not much of a conspiracy/rabbit hole/tin foil hat guy but with all of the talk about SBMM and EOMM (especially) in the recent Call of Duty game I started to wonder if Battlefield could be infected by this.  Apparently back in 2017 a significant paper on the topic of EOMM was co-written by some EA employees and this was a bit eye opening.  It’s full of math equations and other stuff that I can’t even comprehend but the larger message was that they were making the argument that EOMM is a better method of matchmaking than just plain old matchmaking.  And their objective is to keep players engaged in the game to buy skins and all of that other garbage.  How do they do that?  Through “fairness”.  Now I REALLY started to wonder.

So last night I was playing a game of 2042 on Redacted with a friend and then another friend jumped in.  So the game ends and without me even talking about EOMM, the friend that jumped in says “Man I got to around 30 kills and then all of a sudden the game just started feeling wonky.  Like I couldn’t get anymore kills and just started racking up deaths”.  So I go to the scoreboard and what do I see?  On both teams the vast majority of scores were in the 30-40 range for kills and then just random amounts for deaths.  There were a couple of outliers at the top with 50-60 kills but everyone else was pretty darn close to equal.

So one friend leaves and I play one more game with the other friend and lo and behold the end of round scoreboard had most in the 20-30 kill range on both teams.

I didn’t take screenshots since I had to hold down the stupid start button just to keep the scoreboard up on Xbox and the round ran out.

Was there EOMM at play?  I’m really starting to think so. Of course it can’t be proven because EA or Dice won’t talk about it but again, the fact that the paper was written by EA employees seems to be more than just a coincidence.

Also what better way to institute EOMM than through matchmaking?  We don’t have a server browser in 2042 do we?  Hmmmm…..

I’m even starting to wonder if it was in BF5 since that had some of the weirdest and most frustrating gun engagements.  And it was at that time that all of the skins were introduced.  Now they have servers but could it still have EOMM since they’re official Dice servers?

If this nefarious type of manipulating gameplay rather than players actually playing to their abilities is being forced upon us then do we even want to keep buying their games? 

I’ll be thinking about just buying GTA 6 or some other single player games in the future if this is what gaming across the board is becoming.

Stuff to consider my Battlefield friends.