Server Selection- NHL 24- PS5 (GTA)
Hi, Im located in the GTA and have a router that geofences. Using this tech, I can see where the servers are that I connect to as well as players. The two best ea servers relative to toronto are lo...
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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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