[UPDATE] PVZ GW2 PC Matchmaking Error in Asian server and NA West
Players are encountering matchmaking issues in Asian and NA West servers that started about a week ago. Most of the time, when matchmaking in these servers, the game shows a lobby is found, however, players cannot connect to the server and join the lobby. In rare cases, the players get in an empty lobby and nobody else can find the lobby. Hundreds of people have encountered this issue and asked what happened in the comment section of my videos, in chat and in my social media chat groups that contain thousands of people. This issue also happened about one year ago, when two cheaters were crashing lobbies all day and the entire online multiplayer server in all regions was disabled. The MP servers were down for weeks and months until EA rebooted the server and fixed the particular incident. The same server issue is happening right now and is likely caused by only one cheater who has admitted that he was crashing the server around the time this issue started. The cheating in PC GW2 has been getting worse since the anticheat update, and cheaters need to be banned. I DMed @EA_Shepard and sent the ID of this particular cheater, the server issue did not happen by the time though but just a precaution. I am not sure if my DM was missed or something because it was not replied to.
To conclude the current situation, the matchmaking issue that started around a week or so ago is affecting hundreds of players every single day and was likely caused by a single cheater. The game is still in a state where one cheater is sufficient to cause systematic server issues at no cost. Someone said that the EAAC is just a PR stunt and I hope it is not.