Let's talk about the Matchmaker
Now I appreciate EA trying to innovate and try something different to improve aspects of the game, but this seems like a step backwards. As many have pointed out, it's taking way too long to find a ...
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@de4c0nfr05t OMG I forgot about that. Thanks for the nostalgia. Everyone would get thrown in the middle and you just moved to an open slot. Downside to that was some trolls would open their mics, join the middle, and just sit there and never move to a position and they would be blaring some gawd awful music or something to annoy until the timer ran out. Also, a lot of people would join, not see the position they want open, then back out. So it sometimes took a while to start a game just because people were picky. OR people would reluctantly take a position at D or something and then just play like a forward all game (I realize that people STILL play D like this even in the current paradigm). I definitely prefer pre-picking your position to that system. I definitely DO not like how long it takes to match in 24 as it stands though.
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@de4c0nfr05tOMG I forgot about that. Thanks for the nostalgia. Everyone would get thrown in the middle and you just moved to an open slot. Downside to that was some trolls would open their mics, join the middle, and just sit there and never move to a position and they would be blaring some gawd awful music or something to annoy until the timer ran out. Also, a lot of people would join, not see the position they want open, then back out. So it sometimes took a while to start a game just because people were picky. OR people would reluctantly take a position at D or something and then just play like a forward all game (I realize that people STILL play D like this even in the current paradigm). I definitely prefer pre-picking your position to that system. I definitely DO not like how long it takes to match in 24 as it stands though.
Yes as it was implemented back then you could be a troll, but that's easily fixed. Just allow more people to join the room so if you sit in the middle to troll more people can come in and will take the open spots. Allow the ability to easily and quickly mute players right from the room, click name to mute/unmute.
Trolls will find ways to get around anything, but the game would be better with this system than without it. Many times there would be 1 goalie as the timer was winding down, the goalie would jump up to an open D spot to salvage the game.
Something has to change though, waiting sucks!
@de4c0nfr05t wrote:Yes as it was implemented back then you could be a troll, but that's easily fixed. Just allow more people to join the room so if you sit in the middle to troll more people can come in and will take the open spots. Allow the ability to easily and quickly mute players right from the room, click name to mute/unmute.
If I remember correctly, if there was someone sitting in the middle, the game couldn't start. That was what the trolls were exploiting. If you did allow more people to be in the middle AND allow a game to start even if people were in the middle, that would solve it. There may have been a technical issue with starting a match while people were still in the middle (like what to do with them). I can't imagine the solution for that would be terribly difficult.
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