NHL 23 Free on EA Play....
Even when this game is free it's still overpriced. Five hours of VS Online play and I'm done. Tired of being discriminated against online because of my location all the time. This is the WORST onl...
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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerThere's no discrimination. Online Versus uses a peer to peer connection. You're not on our servers. Either you or your opponent are the host. If you're in a less-populated area, chances are good you're connecting with someone far away. Which, of course, means a weaker connection. Hopefully, we'll have more dedicated servers in the future, but that would also mean you may have a worse connection unless the server is close to you.
I don't feel like gameplay is ever optimal for me here in the Northwoods of Wisconsin/Michigan area. Even though I seem to play on servers East of me I'm always stuck routing West before I get there. The routing for this game is so dumb for me, and it's been this way for as long as I remember being able to track my route (when I used a router that would do that)
I honestly think it's more a routing issue than it is a distance issue, because when I'm playing on actual servers in HUT I'm physically not that far away, but the route takes that weird route I was mentioning. Nobody wants to admit fault or offer a real solution though, so I'm just "stuck" for the most part.
- EA_Aljo
Your ISP is responsible for the routing. Matchmaking looks for the best possible match. If you're being routed to the west coast, your ping will be higher due to the distance.
Sooooooo, what's the solution then when my ISP wants to troubleshoot MY equipment when there's nothing wrong there, and that be the only solution they offer me? I mean I can't get less than 80ms on VS Online, and HUT is somewhere around 50ms, and this is an ALL the time thing.
