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HighTmatthew
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2 years ago
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World of Chel population

I'm sure nobody in this forum would have ANY control over this but, world of chel REALLY needs to be free to play. The game does not have the kinda of population to sustain this gamemode for a full y...
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  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    2 years ago

    @HighTmatthew 

    Part of the population issue is also that there are a very high amount of players in club games instead of drop-ins. That's going to reduce the available player pool for drop-in games. Plus, you can fill in on clubs as a free agent. This will further shrink the 6v6 drop-in population. My club hasn't had a problem finding games on Xbox One quickly, but I imagine if we all switch to drop-ins, that would be a different experience.

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EA_Aljo
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2 years ago

Hi there, @HighTmatthew 

Which console are you playing on? There is a lower population on Xbox One/PS4 than Xbox Series X/PS5. 

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HighTmatthew
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2 years ago
@EA_Aljo I am on PS5 with crossplay turned on and always use relaxed game location. Search times are better than last year but still quite underwhelming for a new game to take as long as it does to find a full match. No matchmaking setting is going to fix the fact the servers are just underpopulated compared to other games. Hopefully EA dabbles in some free to play ideas to grow certain games like Chel. It sorely needs it
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    EA_Aljo
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    2 years ago

    @HighTmatthew 

    Part of the population issue is also that there are a very high amount of players in club games instead of drop-ins. That's going to reduce the available player pool for drop-in games. Plus, you can fill in on clubs as a free agent. This will further shrink the 6v6 drop-in population. My club hasn't had a problem finding games on Xbox One quickly, but I imagine if we all switch to drop-ins, that would be a different experience.

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      HighTmatthew
      New Veteran
      2 years ago
      @EA_Aljo Yeah the problem is greatly improved this year with clubs I have noticed. Played PS4 version last year with my friends and it took probably 3 or 4x longer to find games than currently on next gen.

      I think the devs have done nearly all they can with the matchmaking to make it fast as possible(maybe menu speeds/load times could be increased in future), at this point its on EA higher ups to get more people actually playing the game by making the WOC free to play separate from full NHL game. That would be a huge undertaking but I think thats the future if we wanna grow the game.
  • AntRoBell's avatar
    AntRoBell
    5 months ago

    Hi, I have look for a way to change so online settings is not on relax. I am only getting games from us and the ping is bad 

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