This game is absolutely unplayable every WL and during friday, saturday, sunday even having the ping 8-16ms. every year a bunch of hamsters bring billions of dollars into EA and our very respected developers cannot buy more productive servers to cope with the load before the WL every year. What's wrong with the indie company? Is it really that poor and destitute? And aliens are stealing all the money they earn? Or what?EDIT: I found the answer. EA servers adjust the game speed and input lag to make it harder for the player after a series of victories. The Internet connection has nothing to do with it. You can see completely different gameplay in Champions, Rivals and Seasons at the SAME TIME having the same connection and the same EA servers. no conditions have changed except the game mode. I also connected a new friend's account and his gameplay is much faster and responsive on my PC when I logged off from my own.

Hey @okd4 connection issues are something that you need to work on on your end If there are server issues we can see them and will communicate accordingly. You can find steps to help here: https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/problems-playing-online/ Darko

Connection Issues during peak times

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EA_Darko
Community Manager
4 months ago
Hey @okd4 connection issues are something that you need to work on on your end

If there are server issues we can see them and will communicate accordingly.

You can find steps to help here: https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/problems-playing-online/

Darko
brebike
New Scout
4 months ago
@EA_Darko
Genuine question, something I'm wondering about for a week now.
After a hard day of work, do you actually play this game in your spare time and enjoy it? Inviting your colleagues, having a blast, tapping each other on the back, while telling each other this is probably the best thing EA has ever released?
I find that hard to believe if you would...
zyrien
4 months ago
The answer is, he doesnt * care about it. The servers have been like this for years and I guess darko doesnt give a *. You can do 40000 EA connection quality * things but it wont improve the worthless delay the server has.
Stop pretending
Tw098
4 months ago
its not on his end, its a problem in the ea server and its known to happen for multiple people, don't throw it on him, if you can't help don't answer
EA_Darko
Community Manager
4 months ago
I play the game every day and the only time I have issues with connection is when there are recognised server issues or my ISP is having issues.

I regularly work on my home network set-up to ensure it runs as best it can.

Darko
FourSwords22
4 months ago
@EA_Darko So you play this game everyday. You're either lying or passionate. I don't think it's passionate because as someone who's supposed to lead this community it really feels like you're either A. Literally doing nothing or B. You're hands are tired.

We want honest communication and Straightforward answer.

We all want change. But as someone leading the charge, are you even ready ?
RadioShaqs
Hero
4 months ago
@FourSwords22 He isn’t wrong. I’ve never had delay. People make it out like everyone has delay and the servers are the issue it’s just not true. Try improving your connection or your setup. That is the honest answer and straight forward. It’s actually nice when ea communicate on here so you know what’s going on.
brebike
New Scout
4 months ago
@EA_Darko
So... My ping is at 13 ms and I'm playing a PS4. I'm located near Brussels which means I have at least 3 game servers in a radius of 500kms around me to connect to.
Can you please explain why I lost my last game because two times my attackers were at 1m in front of an open goal and refused to kick it in? Instead they wanted to control the ball first although i was tapping my shoot button like an idiot? Why my defenders were constantly first on the ball, having an advantage of 3-4m on the attacker and still lose the ball because response time is too slow? Why meanwhile my opponent was playing the ball around as if it was a pinball game? And this was happening all morning as well as yesterday. Most games start normal but after 10 to 20 minutes in the game, lags appear and the more towards the end, the slower it becomes
ManlikeRuss
4 months ago
@FourSwords22 Agreed.
brebike
New Scout
4 months ago
@EA_Darko
My previous post was not a retorical question. Just tried to play 3 games, it was enough again to ruin my evening. Right now I'm just furious over this piece of * but i'll try to be nice.
Tested my ping (15ms), upload and download speed are more than enough, resetted the PS, turned it off and back on between the games, ... but every game the same thing. One out of four times that i push a button, nothing works. Two out three times it responds way too late. Tried to tackle the ball, it only performed the tackle when the ball was 10m further. Was pushing L1 for like 5 times to let the player in front of me run towards goal while attacking, nothing happened. Tried to shoot on goal: lag of more than 2 seconds.
A fluent gameplay is literally impossible. Direct passing is impossible. Dribbling is impossible. Planning ahead is impossible since you never know whether the last action you did will actually be executed or not.
Before you ask: yes, i uninstalled and re-installed the game. Took me at least 5 attempts because of all the error messages i received.
According to every EA co-worker on this site, there's nothing wrong, it's all our own fault, we all have bad connections etc. There are plenty of stories on here that prove the opposite. We paid for this game. Please make it work.