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 online gaming experience I've ever had in my life, and it's not my fault (just in case you wanted to troubleshoot my connection to save face)

Also, it feels like the more stuff, features, moves, etc, they try to do the greater the disparity becomes based SOLELY on your internet connection. That would explain why internet problems on the 360 were minimal, but with each new generation they have become more glaring and obvious. Maybe that's where EA needs to start looking because we all can't have perfect internet connections.

shoulda been free from launch - this game is terrible

Trust me, I'm at least 7 years deep into everything you've just suggested right now. I'm OCD by nature, so if it CAN be done it HAS been done, you can bet your everything on that. I can probably tell better than the average person when something isn't right just by watching what happens on the screen relative to what happens on the controller. I'm very well aware.It's the fact that these problems that players have have been documented for how many years now, and people at EA pass them off as something the user must be doing wrong. Think about all of the people that say that "this is the only game I have a problem with" and go from that fact. That has ALSO been overstated for almost a decade now, and here we still are having increasing problems of the SAME nature as we always have. If it was a user problem then the user would have these problems with EVERY game, but it's not like that. The fact that EA's games are the ONLY ones giving users issues leads to EA being the problem in some way.I mean why doesn't my daughter have issues with any of her Call of Duty games...why doesn't my friend have any issues with Fortnite...why is Overwatch flawless online...I mean I'm sure you see the point I'm making here. You can't blame the user when this game series is the ONLY problem for the USER. You need to reevaluate the game at that point, and if nobody will do that then we are screwed as users, and so will EA in the end for not fixing the issue.

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.

I have the exact same problem as the thread starter. (@MetalHead0703) I subscribed to EA play for one month just to try NHL23 (by the way, It’s my first time not buying the game since 97)Obviously when you play online you at least need the ping to be like 20ms to 35ms. (or even lower)But It’s very difficult to match up with another player and get a ping like that. Every time I play this game mode: before first period faceoff I press the “option button” and then the “rectangle button” (PS5 that is) to see the network status and every time the ping is like 50ms +I have to repeat this maybe like up to 10 times before I finally get matched up with an opponent (an opponent probably living closer to my location) the ping is then usually around 35ms.The online experience with this game mode is horrible!Please pass this problem on to the development team. Get this game mode over on dedicated servers and adopt full crossplay to it as well.

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MetalHead0703
3 years ago
Trust me, I'm at least 7 years deep into everything you've just suggested right now. I'm OCD by nature, so if it CAN be done it HAS been done, you can bet your everything on that. I can probably tell better than the average person when something isn't right just by watching what happens on the screen relative to what happens on the controller. I'm very well aware.
It's the fact that these problems that players have have been documented for how many years now, and people at EA pass them off as something the user must be doing wrong. Think about all of the people that say that "this is the only game I have a problem with" and go from that fact. That has ALSO been overstated for almost a decade now, and here we still are having increasing problems of the SAME nature as we always have. If it was a user problem then the user would have these problems with EVERY game, but it's not like that. The fact that EA's games are the ONLY ones giving users issues leads to EA being the problem in some way.
I mean why doesn't my daughter have issues with any of her Call of Duty games...why doesn't my friend have any issues with Fortnite...why is Overwatch flawless online...I mean I'm sure you see the point I'm making here. You can't blame the user when this game series is the ONLY problem for the USER. You need to reevaluate the game at that point, and if nobody will do that then we are screwed as users, and so will EA in the end for not fixing the issue.
KlariskraysNHL
Hero
3 years ago
They gladly take care of the north with servers and neglect the southeast greatly. My connection for 6s I can get is 40s while my friends are enjoying 20 or less living up north.
East - low 40s
Central - low 60s
East Canada - 80s
West US - 90s
West Canada - 100s
Dunno the Dallas one, but sure could use a server in the Georgia area. The whole East set of servers aren't very well spread out for crud.

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