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Anonymous

10 years ago

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Match making is killing SWBF for pc gamers

There's a large number of threads about not being able to find a pc server, and it's of course due to the match making mechanics. I've got the similar problem, and it's more than frustrating to spend lots of prime time just searching for a game. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't. On a given weekday evening at 7 PM I can’t find a game of Blast on any map! And there’s the new Raider Camp map available, so there should be gamers...Probably yes, but they are not inside my match making boundaries.

If there were common, open game servers like in other shooters, I could choose & jump into a server even further away and accept a higher ping, but still I would be able to play. But due to match making the gaming possibilities are limited to the defined ip region. This is a solution made for consoles, but it’s also the reality that we pc gamers are living in; certain games just are meant for consoles only even if they're released for pc.

Pc clans and serious gaming communities have already abandoned match making games in general. But I thought that I could play this game after all, because I simply love the whole theme. And I love to play the maps & modes I love, no problem at all there. But to wait and finally & possibly to find a suitable game was something I wasn't expecting.

So my questions are: do we see the open servers in SWBF? And/or, does EA expand the current geographical ip boundaries so that the pc gamers could get the return for their money and play the game when they’d really like to?

Thank you for the response already beforehand, & cya in the Battlefront!

Carbonic
10 years ago
Hi @McHolliday and welcome to Answers HQ. As a fellow gamer I understand your issue but you are handling it in what I consider a suboptimal way. This is Answers HQ - Star Wars Battlefront has a general discussion forum for discussions and then this technical section where gamers help fellow gamers with technical issues.

What you seem to want to do is leave feedback to the developers and for that I think Twitter, Reddit or the official forum will be way better places to do. ( http://starwars.ea.com/starwars/battlefront/forums ).

All in all, I don't think you will see an answer for this in here.

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Carbonic
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10 years ago
Hi @McHolliday and welcome to Answers HQ. As a fellow gamer I understand your issue but you are handling it in what I consider a suboptimal way. This is Answers HQ - Star Wars Battlefront has a general discussion forum for discussions and then this technical section where gamers help fellow gamers with technical issues.

What you seem to want to do is leave feedback to the developers and for that I think Twitter, Reddit or the official forum will be way better places to do. ( http://starwars.ea.com/starwars/battlefront/forums ).

All in all, I don't think you will see an answer for this in here.
Anonymous
10 years ago
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Ahh, so it seems lol. Thanks for the tip, I'll leave my feedback to the proper forum.
Anonymous
10 years ago
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I've had the same issue. The only game mode that I can usually find a game in is Walker Assault. There is a website that will tell you how many players are online for each platform and pc seems to always be around 9,500 people where as ps4 is usually arounf 16k. (the website is
http://swbstats.com/)
Anonymous
10 years ago
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Thx for the link, the data looks interesting. So this very weekend pc users have peaked to 11.000 users, xbox 55.000 and PS4 to 85.000; pc gamers are less than 8 % of the total. It's not surprising and there's no criticism here, people play on the platform they feel best - but the dedicated servers would indeed help the pc gamers in a situation like this.
Schep
10 years ago
I respectfully disagree with Carbonic regarding McHolliday's post. Yes, this is "Answers HQ," tagline being, "Ask. Answer. Level up." McHolliday asked questions, which satisfies the aforementioned. Matchmaking is a huge problem for PC gamers. Questions and comments are posted everywhere about it by customers, yet I haven't seen one response from EA regarding their course of action to fix it.
In my opinion, we need to continue to post our dismay on every blog, forum, social media outlet, etc, regarding matchmaking until something changes. It is clearly broken and we've heard nothing from EA. All we get is the ability to choose our region, which doesn't work, BTW. Opening ports doesn't work. This needs to be fixed. EA DICE made the decision to forgo a single-player campaign and focus on multiplayer. Fine. But we get stuck with a matchmaking system that takes forever to find a match (and oftentimes doesn't find one at all)? I haven't been able to play a Supremacy match in weeks. It very much appears as if EA doesn't care. If they did, we would at least be informed that it is something being worked on.
I've been playing EA games since the early 90's on Sega Genesis, and I must say, I'm very disappointed that my loyalty is clearly worth nothing.
Schep
10 years ago
FYI... just tried to connect to Supremacy three times, and three times I received the attached message. There are over 11,000 people online (PC) right now. I highly doubt that there are no Supremacy games being played. Shouldn't I at least be placed in an empty server? Unacceptable...