The end of rovers and quitting?

With the new changes will this end rovers and quitting?  Friendlies are no longer tied to rivals and quitting will no longer drop your form.  Taken from the pitch notes below. 

Live Friendlies

Purpose: Your shared playground for squad experimentation

In FC 24, many highly skilled players found that Champions Play-offs often created a low stake environment for them to play in. This has always been the intent of Live Friendlies, but previous matchmaking could have sometimes created overly competitive matches for top players. This also led to a lack of incentive for players to push to the highest possible rank in Division Rivals, as their Friendlies experience also got more competitive.  

In FC 25 we’re making changes to matchmaking based on form, similar to the system found in Champions. This new system will take into account your wins and losses across all Live Friendlies (excluding House Rules) to find you a suitable opponent. Put another way, this means your Live Friendlies matchmaking will no longer be linked to your Rivals Division.

It’s important for the long term health of the community that newer or lower skill players are finding good match ups as they play online for the first time. To reduce the potential for win form manipulation, only full match losses will count towards the way form is calculated. This means that if a match ends before the full time whistle is blown, the loss won’t count towards your win form. This will help ensure a level playing field and that the whole community is able to find an appropriate match up for their skill level. 

As a shared playground to experiment with different & unique squads, we’ll be moving more Objectives & Evolution requirements into Live Friendlies, to ensure you’re consistently facing players trying to achieve the same goals.