Community Managerthe exact match setting too? in eashl?
It's obviously an incredibly unpopular change. If there are any players out there who think it's a good move I'd be shocked.
But at this point is seems a pretty safe bet that taking away the matchmaking settings from the players and moving them server-side was an intentional move by EA and not a bug to be fixed. It also appears that EA is completely unwilling to communicate why this change was made.
The only reasons I can think of are
None of these seem like a good reason to strip players of their agency. And none of them seem like something that EA can't or won't explain to the player base. So I have to assume there's some other reason I'm missing.
Or it broke the coding and by removing it they were able to make searching for games work. So at least they had some functionality.
