Re: Restrictive Matchmaking in Online Seasons

@blue166 thanks for the reply and for confirming that seasons database of players is larger than people think.

you have raised an interesting point with regards to how if a game is found within 5 seconds, it is most likely a fair match. although if u are using chelsea as a 4.5 star team, i think man city and real madrid will be considered fair matches too as chelsea is only 0.5 stars away. i recall before ea fc 24, the 4.5 star teams were divided into 2 - the stronger 4.5 star teams were able to get real madrid, man city etc. the weaker ones like newcastle, bayer leverkusen will not. that was the era of genuine, real proper restrictive matchmaking and i really hope it returns in ea fc 25. i have been trying to confirm this but all of the ea moderators here simply ignore this thread, even though it has the highest post counts

No problem.

Yeah, the 5 second search would more times than not result in me meeting other 4.5 star teams. As I say I leave it for 5 then stop and repeat until a game is found.

I can certainly understand that those playing with 3-4 star teams would not enjoy being put up against Real Madrid and Man City alot.

As you mention 4.5 star is a lot closer to 5 and the 0.5 swing I also remember and am fine with that.

Let's hope Seasons is fun.

@blue166 just like you, i have zero interest in the rubbish mode that is UT. only ever play seasons.

it excites me to see that real stadiums for feyenoord, sporting lisbon, galatasaray and going to be newly included. those are 3 teams i use alot in fifa 23 and before. but if they dont fix the restrictive matchmaking, there really isnt a point at all.

@dazzelecloudy Yes there are more stadiums like Lille or Lens in France, so I could play with these teams. Hope EA will fix that but nobody responds to us. As you, I’m fed up with FUT, gameplay is too fast, so i prefer to play with real teams 

@martinhoAlonso Roma and Napoli are also back with real kits which is exciting. @EA_Pulsar we are waiting for a reply since months ago. 

agree that UT is rubbish - never spent one second on it before. actually if EA isn’t interested in online seasons, just give it up to another gaming company to develop the seasons full version and stop wasting our time

@dazzelecloudy the 5sec search, does it work? I will try it. But it’s a shame how EA considers us. There are a lot of people playing Seasons too. Nearly 20k each time I play this mode

@martinhoAlonso dont seem to work sadly. i picked bournemouth, got a match in 5 seconds it is man city lololol. it is depressing. i am waiting for reviews on this forum before i buy ea fc 25. i am not spending 90 euros to play real madrid non stop

@dazzelecloudy I will do as you. If not fixed , not Buy it. EA is dumb , there is an online Seasons community and they will lose it and so they will lose money. There are another games, not only FC 25

@martinhoAlonso agreed. i remember fifa 23 and before where you could have games like brighton vs borussia dortmund, lille vs napoli, newcastle vs psv. so, so much more fun

@EA_QueenBee more ignoring from someone who says be kind to each other. shameful and disgraceful

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Hello,

I think as long as the community know that the issue is being looked at that will reassure everyone that EA is going to fix it.

I totally agree that if by all costs the game can't find someone a 3 star match for example then it will look for half a star more at a time etc... then user can decide to proceed or not with the match.

We are passionate Seasons players 😀

Thanks.

@EA_Illium i am trying to have a conversation by aaking a question regarding matchmaking. none of the EA advisors have even bothered to reply me. Is your warning directed to their sheer rudeness?

in fact in the seasons played by a very large number of people, I do not understand why EA did not set up the correct selection of players, this is a very important parameter of the game, and it completely breaks the gameplay, when playing for Sporting or Benfica you are constantly thrown France or Real Madrid in what the interest of such a game if all the opposing players are faster than you in every game moment. For me it is not clear why EA for such a long period of time did not fix anything, I think for them it is very simple, maybe they do not know about this problem ?

p.s I used to play UT, but every year this mode began to turn into a children's arcade, hockey scores like 8-7 or 7-6, UT mode is made so that everything flew in from different angles, it causes laughter, where one player using feints can pass half the team and score a goal) no, it is not like soccer, so I moved to the seasons online there is much less of this crap....ma

@EVG_UK25 thank you for speaking up. indeed the ridiculous matchmaking continues and nobody knows why EA refuses to admit and fix itx all they do is to send a warning here asking us to mind what we say, but still ignore us! shameful 

so frustrating when the developers and EA as a whole don’t listen to the community. it is not like we are asking for a lot - we just want basic features in the game to work, and are being constantly gaslit by EA. shameful company

just played seasons cup mode on ea fc 24, picked napoli 4.5 star teams. i could not get real madrid or man city. the only 5 star teams i could get were barcelona and liverpool. restrictive matchmaking actually WORKS in cup mode!! the game actively filtered away the more higher rated 5 star teams. i also got a stream of other 4.5 star teams like spurs, man u, sevilla. amazing. when it could not find me a suitable opponent, it told me so and i clicked search again.

once i returned to seasons league, the nonsense began again. man city, real madrid, real madrid, man city, real madrid.

big question is why ea stubbornly refuse to apply restrictive matchmaking to seasons league mode??? ughhhh

@EA_Hux how about some answers whether restrictive matchmaking works??

@dazzelecloudy You’re losing your time, they won’t answer you. It is 20 Times we are asking the question and no answer. And the ot her Hand they answer very quickly concerning UT and pre-command. Money, money,money,$$$$£ ……

@EA_LeonSK shame on all of you at EA. you’ll get your karmic retribution

@EA_Pulsar 

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Restrictive-matchmaking-in-seasons-mode-is-not-working/td-p/12998252/page/33

300 posts and you ignore all of us. shameful money grubbing people all of you at EA

EA is probably only interested in UT mode because there are donations and money coming in, maybe they want as few people as possible to play in seasons and are trying to lure them to UT ))

disgusting behaviour as usual. @EA_Hux  you proud of yourself? what is the point of thie forum when there are no responses to questions people ask. swindlers

@EA_Darko where’s the reply to seasons players? aren’t you ashamed of the way you treat us??