Restrictive Matchmaking in Online Seasons

Well yesterday in Europe it was showing nearly 4,000 online. When I connect later I will say again the numbers then.

@blue166 i saw about 4000 online yesterday too. still got real madrid non stop

I played more games today and played Sporting, Juventus and Galatasaray.

@blue166 what are you doing differently?!

i believe @stayloa is also on xbox next gen and having problems too. he reported getting real madrid with 4* crystal palace.

i tried using chelsea, same as you @blue166 

instantly i got real madrkd

@blue166 just guessing whether you may have tried on the old gen version. since buying the game entitles you to both old and new gen versions under dual entitlement?

new gen - usually restrictive matchmaking doesnt work. old gen it tends to work better

All I know is so far with Chelsea I am meeting Sporting, Juve, Gala, Athletic etc... No Madrid or City yet. Like I say i would not mind them either here and there.

@blue166 cool. you have access to both the old and new gen am i right?

So the tip earlier in this thread about not letting the matchmaking last more than 5 seconds before backing out seems to work.

Today, I got Real Madrid twice (and quit out both times). Tried again, got an instant match and got OM which is a fair match for Crystal Palace.

We need this level of activity in the bug report thread though, not in here!

@stayloaI would always recommend the under 5 seconds search, cancel and repeat. For the reasons I mentioned earlier. Location of opponent and more likely to meet a side with a similar star rating.

I have found this the best option for at least the last 3 FIFAs/EAFCs now.

@stayloa could you try the 5 seconds search consistently and let us know? i tried to do it but still got real madrid when i got an opponent under 5 seconds with a 4 star team

How are your findings since?

Any others want to chip in this thread too?

Yeah this is still broken for me. It's chalked. 

Try and play with a 3 star team and getting matched against Liverpool at times.

The main mode I play is 2v2 seasons with a friend. Restrictive matchmaking was working in 2v2 in FC24, however it appears to be broken in the same way on this game.

I have no idea how we even get EA to look into this issue. It completely ruins the experience playing Seasons modes and they just don't care cos it's not UT. 

This game has been out less than a week and already i'm

a) sick of playing Real Madrid

b) Sick of having to quit every game before it starts because it's matching my rubbish team against Real Madrid. 

I really don't understand why they can't let us decide how much of a star difference we want in matchmaking. Let us choose if we want to play games with a 2star difference or half a star. Can't be that difficult to code. 

It's not perfect, but I'd say 9/10 matches are against reasonable opposition with the 5 second trick.

The 5 second thing I have done for about 3 FIFAs (EAFC) and more time than not it works. Not only that it also finds somebody within closer location as that's the nature of the way the search expands outwards as time goes on.

On 25 it's working also. Just one of those things I figured out a long time ago.

The reality with lower star teams - Probably 3.5 star and under, it's likely to be a lot less players playing with them. I'd say 3.5 stars to 5 star is the majority of players. Just the bigger nature of popular clubs.

I'm hoping it improves over the next week with the higher amount of people playing. I managed to get a free trial on my XBOX One as well and when I went into Seasons I was getting numbers as low as 150 players online. My prediction is at least 125 of those were picking Real Madrid so as I previously stated is possibly one of the reasons matchmaking is flawed. Not enough people picking 3 or 3.5 star teams to play as

nothing has changed , search for teams by ranking is broken , playing for sporting constantly comes up real madrid,  barcelona , manchester city, bayern münchen

Co op seasons still broken with matchmaking - I choose a 4 star team and constantly get 5 star teams, will this be fixed?

Hey guys, does at least the control filter work? Or manual players still get paired with semi/auto opponebts? Thanks.

Still playing as Chelsea. Meeting Galatasaray, Sporting, Athletic Bilbao. I left my search for a while last night (current Div5) and it put me up against Bayern. Was tired to backed out of that one. But I would play them normally. 

Xbox Series X.