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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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
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Community ManagerYour 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.
- EA_Aljo
@MetalHead0703 wrote:
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.
That's pretty normal if you're connecting to a server on the west coast. Online Versus games don't take place on our servers. Either you or your opponent are the host. If you want to go through some troubleshooting, let me know, but there isn't anything we can do about routing.
Actually, I'm not connecting to the West server according to my POS Netgear Netduma router. It located the server somewhere in Ohio maybe? when I was still using it. I'm back on the Asus router now because it just works better in general, but NOTHING works for this NHL series anymore. It doesn't matter what I do, and Spectrum is the ONLY player in town for internet.
What's peculiar is that when my players act slow, sluggish, weak, and stupid, and my controller input doesn't register in the game properly, are also the times I seem to be playing against players with a higher ranked skill level that have players that don't show ANY of these problems. The disparity between players seems to be caused directly by the internet connection, and it's hard to be competitive when the internet doesn't let you compete fairly. My thoughts always go back to the PS3/360 versions of the game and how the internet USUALLY didn't cause many problems aside from once in a blue moon.
