Server Selection- NHL 24- PS5 (GTA)

3 losses in a row. I will not win a single game until EA allows me to play back on a local server.  The question I have- Is this what most of us perceive as DDA? Is EA routing us to servers that are not local in order to make our teams perform slugish? 

Geofencing on, 1000 KM radius around the GTA. Its Saturday- 4pm EST when everyone is online. I can only route to a western Canadian server and play people local to that area.

Why? Is this a mistake by EA, A server outage in the southern USA or... Built in routing logic? 

I'm assuming this is routing logic by EA. Once again, no other issue with any other games, or accessing local servers. 

I've restarted the router, the modem. once again, no issues with any other game. It seems purposeful. No local games to be found for the last 5 hours? 

Do you notice no response from EA  - We are waiting

EA always asks for video poof  - there it is LOL

Its trash. Im a Division 2 player, try to play most of my games on weekends. I cant ever get a good connection. 

With so many people in the GTA, you think they would have a server local to EST canada or at least, allow us to connect to one... Its insane. 

Im going to check this daily and create a calendar and time map. Eventually I will understand how EA sports Server Routing works depending on day.

im also goign to create a lowe overall team to see if there is a difference, that will tell me if routing is tied to team overall/ win stereaks.

Im goign to crack this one and if there is something scripted going on where we are all being routed to crap servers because it makes us spend more....It will be apparent. 

My Theory: Execs employee data scientists to do research and modeling. 

- If we allow players to connect to local servers early in the week (Monday to Weds) they will win, experience some great game play and feel good. In order to mitigate rewards given out we just decrease rewards from this mode and only make it achievable to players who play all 25 weekly games before champs. 

-If we route them to distant servers on Thursdays through to Sunday after some early week success, they will tolerate the losses, wonder what happened, and argue amongst themselves saying "get good".

In both instances from a psychology aspect, your chasing a dangling carrot. Those conditions are similar to those that make people addictive gamblers. They spend money with the perception that they have more control of the outcome then they do.   

Guys, im going to make a reddit thread on this. If anyone has a geofiltering router like I do.. lets work together to get some data on how this routing stragety works. 

Hopefully, @EA_Aljo can come in here and forward your info to the right people but I somehow doubt anything will be done about this. This is likely an incredibly complex issue and I doubt it's even being done on purpose. That said, this kind of thing should be unacceptable. 

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@Overunn wrote:

My Theory: Execs employee data scientists to do research and modeling. 

- If we allow players to connect to local servers early in the week (Monday to Weds) they will win, experience some great game play and feel good. In order to mitigate rewards given out we just decrease rewards from this mode and only make it achievable to players who play all 25 weekly games before champs. 

-If we route them to distant servers on Thursdays through to Sunday after some early week success, they will tolerate the losses, wonder what happened, and argue amongst themselves saying "get good".

In both instances from a psychology aspect, your chasing a dangling carrot. Those conditions are similar to those that make people addictive gamblers. They spend money with the perception that they have more control of the outcome then they do.   

Guys, im going to make a reddit thread on this. If anyone has a geofiltering router like I do.. lets work together to get some data on how this routing stragety works. 

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Apologies for the late response. I was away for the weekend.

Your theories are absolutely incorrect. What is your ping with these games?

If his theory is wrong than explain what is happening and why he is being rerouted. if he is being re routed to a farther server then his ping would be higher and he would be at a big disadvantage to an opponent that is playing on their local server. Come on

If you don't know why it is happening just say you don't know and that you will look into it.

That would be the correct answer. From a non EA rep of course....all due respect.

@Overunn 

Since I'm not seeing other reports of this, let's try some basic troubleshooting. I'd like you to power cycle your equipment with the following steps: unplug your modem/router and console. After 2 minutes plug in the modem/router. Let them come back online completely. Then plug in your console and start it up. Let me know if that helps or not. Thanks!

Edit: I ran this by the team. We're not getting other reports of this so it appears to be an ISP issue as the for some reason, the western servers are generating a better ping for you than the servers that are closer to your location. It would be best to reach out to your ISP for help with this.