Network instability report on EA servers
After launching SKATE, the message “Error Code 852146987: Unable to connect to EA Services” appears. After dismissing it and pressing Start again, “Error Code 3308673633: An internal error has occurred” follows. Only on the third attempt does the game finally connect, and this sequence has become the norm.
In roughly nine out of ten attempts, the game connects to an almost empty session of around thirty players, or in the worst case, about five. It is effectively no different from offline play. At first, I assumed this was normal due to time of day or low popularity, but that assumption was entirely wrong.
If I repeat this pointless connection cycle more than ten times, I am occasionally placed into a session with around one hundred players, proving that I am being connected to low-population sessions far too frequently. Even when I do connect to a crowded session multiple times in a row, the map often displays zero players, or only player names moving without bodies. My list of around twenty friends also reads zero, making communication impossible. Even when connected, the game is effectively broken.
Even after forming a party, players begin disappearing at unnatural timings, and I am also disconnected without warning. We vanish from each other’s view with no explanation, unable to understand what happened. It is extremely unpleasant and creates unnecessary tension. There must be a feature allowing players to inform friends afterward that they were disconnected due to connection issues or a bug.
Many players likely have no idea this behavior is abnormal. They probably assume being placed in an offline-like empty session is normal, or they simply quit because it is too empty to enjoy.
An online sandbox game without people is meaningless and not entertaining. Will this persistent issue truly never be resolved. Is it considered acceptable in its current state. Is there any intention to improve it. Naturally, no other online game on Xbox One suffers from connection failures of this kind.
