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Seasoned Newcomer

4 months ago

PUT MATCH MY CLUB SIZE IN THE GAME

How hard is it to put match my club size in the game? It’s been in here all the past games. It makes matchmaking awful without it. Figure it out

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EA_Aljo

Community Manager

3 months ago

I'm sorry for coming off as arrogant. That's absolutely not the intent. I'm using my own experience as an example of how matchmaking is working for many of us. Granted, I mostly play 4s, 5s and 6s so I'm going to have an easier time than if I were searching for clubs of 2 or 3. Matchmaking is also dependent on ping. So, if you have a higher ping, it's going to be harder to find matches.

Matchmaking already prioritizes the same room size. If they can't be found, the search will expand. So, having the match room size option would get you better matches, but at the expense of a longer wait.

PlayoffError

Hero

3 months ago

EA_Aljo wrote:
So, having the match room size option would get you better matches, but at the expense of a longer wait.

The thing is, people who want that option are only going to play against other teams with the same number of players anyway. They're going to back out of any match-ups that don't have the same number of players on the other side. Quickly finding match-ups that teams are going to back out of isn't useful for anyone. Giving the option to match team size may increase the search time for finding a match-up, but it won't increase the search time to fine a game. And if teams found they didn't like the extra wait, they'd have the choice to open up their search criteria.

SeNoR_Jeff13
Seasoned Scout
3 months ago
You nailed it exactly, give the players the choice they had for years and years. I usually just play 3's with my buddy and are constantly matched up with 3 humans which we don't want to play as we would be at a huge disadvantage as the CPU is terrible compared to another person so we back out over and over and over again until we match up with just 2 people. There was no reason to remove it, no one asked for it to be removed but their are plenty of people who requested it back in NHL 25 and now in NHL 26. It's a players choice to use it or not when it was in the game, you actually had to enable it in the matchmaking settings before searching. Please bring it back, the excuse from last year that it was too hard to put back in NHL 25 is not good enough anymore. It's a simple toggle that during the search if you don't find the a team with the same amount of players you are not connected to each other and it continues searching either until you find a match up with the same amount of players or it times out then you try again.
D19Box
Seasoned Scout
3 months ago
This. Our club is 5-6's. If we pull anything less than 4 we back out. Not having match room size option does not mean you get games faster. We'll back out on every 2's and 3's until we get humans. Most clubs do that. Might as well have match room size like they used to.