EA Staff (Retired)@SnowmanHD has expressed exactly what I thought reading this last night. All good if I can connect to a game on the UK ping. If all it does is default me to a ping site that gets me empty lobbies or error 1066 wtf would be the point of fixing the ping site issue. I just hold out hope that @EA_Ataashi's response from; https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Information/Community-Transmission-Elite-Corps-Update/m-p/6998302#M7010, is accurate. I asked the specific question of will there be a fix for the ping site/error 1066/empty lobbies to which the response was yes as per the thread, therefore let's just hope that whatever they've done, it gets fixed.
@felker_s I'm not sure worry should be the overwhelming emotion here, it's more exasperation(for me at least). I see from these forums that there is a strong die hard StarWars community getting more and more disheartened. @SnowmanHD is probably more passionate than me about this game and considering calling it quits. It's ridiculous everytime something gets fixed they break something else or its not really fixed and something else gets broken. I'm not sure how many would agree, but in my opinion the time this game worked best was back last November when it was released. Ever since its been up and down with every update but never back at that level and that's quite a statement considering how buggy it was at release. I see the multitude of posts by yourself in regards to the many many issues in this game and can't help but feel it's an exercise in futility and have to commend your patience in trying to help EA fix the problems. The fact it's a worry to you tells me that you may well stick at it until they get it right. Keep telling them bud if this game has a future its thanks to people like you. I personally don't even have the patience to bring me to this point and ranting on here is the only reason I've still not given up, if this sh*t carries on past the Clone Wars update I'm going the way of the snowman.
@Tinogiggedy
I'm generally a patient person, but there's hard evidence on these forums of the times when even I lost my temper, lol. My posts from like a week before are full of salt, I even had a separate topic where I called them out on the roadmap being bs (in my defense, they waited until the very end of August to even mention the August update).
Basically I just refuse to give up on this game until they admit that it is dead. I like playing it, I'm actually quite good at it, and I've spent way too much time with it - and way too much money on it, since I've bought it full price at launch.
But don't get me wrong - it never even crossed my mind to buy their next SW game, or any upcoming EA game. What they've done - and still doing - with Battlefront 2 is simply a full-on betrayal of their customers' trust. Coming up on stage at E3 after the ridiculous Han Solo update for some CW news, sure... But if you take a look at the upcoming content, it's basically nothing. In 5-6 months' time, we are supposed to get four characters and one map. One. New. Map. This is an update pack which should cover like one month, releasing it on the 1-year anniversary of BFII as the "We Apologise Patch".
I don't care about the new squad system, that's no excuse - it should have been included in a multiplayer game already. And also the trooper & hero appearances - the underwhelming amount of those is nonsense, since it would be also in their best interest to push a lot of appearance packs out.
