Access denied to a thread I was on less than 24 hours ago

Yes, I can view it now, but that doesn’t explain why I got the message. Can you please clarify why I received the message in the first place and why the moderator shut off replies without any explanation?  I had wanted to participate because I’ve experienced similar issues, but was barred from doing so for no apparent reason. It had every appearance that the moderator just lost patience with the frustration users were voicing and so silenced us all.

Stifling discussion/debate is not the way to cultivate a healthy relationship with the community of users. It sends the message (intended or not) that the thoughts, opinions, and, most of all our gaming experiences with FC25, are not valued or respected by EA.

I realize people sometimes blow off steam in these forums (myself included on occasion) and that it’s not always productive, but silencing discourse just because some of it is heated or because we disagree is not the solution. This particular issue (of laggy gameplay) is one that I see posted about repeatedly and is one that I’ve experienced frequently myself and it is incredibly frustrating that it ruins gameplay. It’s then doubly frustrating when users post about their experiences and EA inevitably replies with the same boilerplate “it’s not us, it’s you” response (which does not appear to help anyone). It then becomes outright infuriating when EA takes the further step of turning off replies and silencing further discussion altogether. In short, it sends the message that the company holds users in contempt—that we are not worthy of your time or respect—and that’s the surest way to destroy any trust with us. It’s bad enough that so many of us find our gaming experience so frustrating, but the worst possible response is for EA to invalidate this frustration by shutting down any conversation.

So, my humble request is to re-open replies to the thread in question. And, in the future, if such action is to be taken then at least clearly state why. Further, if I may be so bold, I’d request that the company take this issue of lag a little more seriously. If there are a lot of us who are saying our gaming experience is poor (i.e., we’re at least as frustrated as we are having FUN due to sluggish gameplay) then it starts to beg some questions. Yes, we might ALL have poor ISPs and/or suboptimal home networks, but the more that chorus of user voices grows the less likely it is that it’s ALL a problem on our side of things. I see folks posting that they’ve tried this suggestion and that suggestion to no avail. They’ve run tests for packet loss, for example, and found no smoking gun, and yet EA stands behind the same pat response time and time again. 

At some point it begs a larger question: What is EA doing to address the fact that, in order for the game to perform optimally/flawlessly, you apparently need a “Ferrari” internet connection? I mean, IF all of these lag issues actually are ALL to do with the users’ ISP/network, it still reflects poorly on EA that users are having such a lousy experience. If H2H play requires such massive high-speed data transfer then the least the company can do is notify the community about the minimum specs required for flawless gameplay. Absent this, and with the forums providing many of us with no actionable solutions, it just feels like EA is taking our money and turning its back on us. If that’s not the intention, then by all means please do something to repair the situation.