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Rising Traveler

4 months ago

Portal completely ruined with the new player count requirements

DICE, when you reduced the minimum player count requirement to 1 for verified experiences with no bot backfill, that was the best thing you could possibly do for portal, because at that point it worked just like a normal server browser in BF3 and 4, which is exactly what everybody wanted you to do when they asked for a server browser, by the way.

Now with the requirement for 20 players, any verified experience that veers even slightly off the beaten path has no chance of ever happening, because gathering 20 people in one place will take an hour or more, and nobody will sit in the waiting room with nothing to do for that long.

At least yesterday, people could play hide and seek on the maps or whack-a-mole with the objectives while they wait for more players.

Kindly trust your customers because clearly, they know what they want and you don't.

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balsysraimondas
Seasoned Novice
4 months ago
Yes EA remove 20 players requirement, i want to play 4vs4 conquest with friends
WCP75
Seasoned Hotshot
4 months ago
This is all ego, 50 billion dollar company bossing around its customers because its about a game, like all thei customers are little kids. If a car brand or electronics brand would play with its customers like this, there would be law suits all over the place.
Return the possibility to play solo against bots. Give us what we paid for!
coffee_creature
Rising Traveler
4 months ago
Here's a statistic for you: it took me 70 minutes to get even 10 people playing in the server, that's with people having something to do while they wait for the lobby to fill.
If they had to sit for 140 minutes in the waiting room to get to 20 players, they would just leave, and the game would never start.
Please reconsider everything you know about your game and how people play it.
coffee_creature
Rising Traveler
4 months ago
That just made me so unbelievably sad, you have no goddamn idea.
Why can't you let a good thing be good.
coffee_creature
Rising Traveler
4 months ago
Also, all the meaningless changes, and you still can't add the Mini Scout to the weapons list in the builder tool so we can have a proper no-sniper server.