I think you’re making an awfully big assumption that Tour is more popular than Pro.
In my experience in Xbox, 16 simultaneous for either Tour or Pro is very well populated. Getting a game on either of those is easy at any time of the day.
1v1 for either of those is less popular as evidenced by a sometimes minimal wait for a match. That said, once again I see no difference in wait times between Tour and Pro.
2v2 was DOA.
SIM is mostly DOA for multiplayer.
To me the fix is to have all game modes going at all times. SIM and 2v2 will never be populated, but if people want to wait for a match, more power to them.
@7AnimalMother wrote:To me the fix is to have all game modes going at all times. SIM and 2v2 will never be populated, but if people want to wait for a match, more power to them.
Well said, and Sim was never populated in past TW games either. Anyone starting to set up a game he likes would be best, as others would join if they like the set up as was done in the past. I guess it comes back to how EA did the standing for each modes. I know I've done hard pass many times when I saw what mode was available on any given day.
@7AnimalMotherYeah, You're on console. I meant to state that I was on PC version.
PC version isn't as generous as console versions when it comes to population, and that's something they need to work on and should have already been working on.
To be fair, if you had to endure the wait times for players on PC you'd agree 100% with me.
There should have been a crossplay option from day one. We are in 2024 and every AAA gaming company has crossplay at this point.
There is a MOUNTAIN of difference due to it being the first EA PGA game on PC in the last 10 years.
And about pro. It is for the casual beginner. If you have put 200+ hours into this game like myself you'd stray FARRR away from it.
If you put 100 casual golf gamers in a room, I'd GUARANTEE upwards of 65% would agree that Tour skill is the preferred game skill.
@GhillieGuy wrote:There is a MOUNTAIN of difference due to it being the first EA PGA game on PC in the last 10 years.
And about pro. It is for the casual beginner. If you have put 200+ hours into this game like myself you'd stray FARRR away from it.
If you put 100 casual golf gamers in a room, I'd GUARANTEE upwards of 65% would agree that Tour skill is the preferred game skill.
Well this is why you're wrong, you're talking about only PC players, probably most of the oldest players in the game. Amateur/Arcade was always the most popular on consoles. And it doesn't matter how many hours and experience a gamer has in golf games. Some of the best players in the game were playing Amateur. Even Sloaner who can play and dominate any mode was playing a lot of Amateur. He and other experience players were very vocal in another thread about this Arcade mode. Most of the best Arcade players can play any mode they want and prefer to play Arcade. In EA Rory, the dev mentioned that the Battlefield course was the most played and by far. That's not Tour players playing that.
In TW series, I had a lot of problems to find a game where there was no mid-air spin. And it was taking me sometimes a long time to get a game if I started with one with no mid-air spin, users were backing out. Even some well known Tour players didn't want to play analog, they wanted to play sticky and adjust the strike meter on the ball. If EA was coming back with the old setup, it would be the same on consoles.
@GhillieGuy wrote:
And about pro. It is for the casual beginner. If you have put 200+ hours into this game like myself you'd stray FARRR away from it.
If you put 100 casual golf gamers in a room, I'd GUARANTEE upwards of 65% would agree that Tour skill is the preferred game skill.
Yeah. I understand there are different populations based on platform and sympathize with those who bought on PC. You may be right on PC players playing more TOUR, but I think Katybee hit the nail on the head on the console populations leaning more toward PRO.
I'm a guy who plays lots of PC games and builds his own PCs, but I have never been comfortable playing sports games there.
I don't like ported games. If a game was made for console, it's better on console. If the game was made for PC it's better on PC. Most sports games are made for console and ported to PC. They were meant for a controler setup. Whereas FPS, RTS, Strategy, MMORPG all shine on PC and need a mouse and keyboard.
I personally think an open sandbox multiplayer environment is a bad idea.
The game would be much better served in a more structured environment, where there are Country Clubs where people can find places to land and feel comfortable where and who they play with.
This also allows EA to offload a large share of work to the community.
Myself I only play online with a small core of acquaintances. I'm not sure why you would want to match up randomly with someone you don't know, who may be unpleasant to be around, or not even complete the round.
