Club Population non-existent
It’s not even 3 weeks since release of the game and you already can’t find clubs to play in 6v6 EASHL… Spend two hours in the locker room searching for a club game, to inevitability get annoyed enoug...
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EA_Blueberry
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Community ManagerHey, everyone.
We're not aware of any plans for adding cross-play for NHL 22, however I am anticipating once the new consoles are purchased this holiday season we'll see the player base increase. With the timing of this launch, players tend to hold out until Black Friday deals and general holiday shopping. When I was a kid I always got the flat out no from my parents around this time of the year when asking for a new game because they waited until mid November. ☹️
We're not seeing any major issue with population right now. It could be specific to region and time of the day when queuing up. In general, the weekends will always have more players online because of no school and work. If you are having some trouble matchmaking let us know what day, time, and region you're queuing up from. Those will be important details to be aware of.
6:30, Saturday, EST in Ontario. We have three people and are unable to find a game, even with +1 and best location off. It's been 10 minutes and two hosts trying to locate anyone to play.
Average search time is listed as 3 minutes, 10 seconds.
@Fadetoblack021 wrote:6:30, Saturday, EST in Ontario. We have three people and are unable to find a game, even with +1 and best location off. It's been 10 minutes and two hosts trying to locate anyone to play.
Average search time is listed as 3 minutes, 10 seconds.
I remember you could play NHL 14, at 2:30 on a Tuesday afternoon and have zero issues finding a club game. Now with the player base divided 16 ways come playoff time...you can't find a game at 9:00pm on a friday night within 10 minutes. Of all the games that desperately need cross platform play...this is one of them, and I hope it comes next year.I'm going to assume for NHL 23 there will be PS4 & XB1 versions of the game again.
If that is the case, online connectivity cannot remain the same as it is right now.
EA has to either implement cross gen and/or cross platform play, or add a server browser style lobby system along side the matchmaker, like we had on PS3/360.
- @de4c0nfr05t this version may very well be the nail in the series.
@Moxrox84Ya it's not looking good
Cross play has to be coming for 23, it's the way many games are going right now. Failure to do so would represent massive ignorance on the Dev's part.
@Moxrox84 wrote:
@de4c0nfr05tthis version may very well be the nail in the series.If it wasn't for the money that HUT brings in, this series would probably be dead already.
My friends and I have had to download the PS4 version on our ps5 just so we can play in the PS4 pool to get a game. PS5 has no players in clubs.
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