But EA isn't wrong on this one. The player base isn't big enough, I've been in lobbies where I can't find a 6's game for a good 10, 15 mins sometimes and just give up finding one, and a lot of the times it's on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Imagine if matchmaking went skill based, it would be even longer. I do think one problem is people who should really be playing clubs squad up in drop ins and just beat up on randoms thrown together on a team, but not sure how you fix that issue.
Sadly, that isn't fully the case. There is cause and effect here. You can't grow a player base with a broke matchmaking format, in-turn you can't fix matchmaking cause the player base for exactly the same reason. This has been a cycle for a few years easily, players who want to jump in and try it out, learn the game or anything along that lines gets in at low level and needs to face top tier players in their first match or second one, puts a bad image of the game on them. They may keep trying off and on but just complain that its not good and say how other sports games have better matchmaking + gameplay and in the end decide to go back to what works.
I saw this first hand in NHL 25 where I had a team of players wanting to get into it but after trying and seeing how the game is + the lack of matchmaking moved back to games like NBA or FC seeing they have a strong base for gameplay and competitiveness.
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