I believe it is way more wide spread than the participation in the forum dialogue may seem to suggest -- how many players actually use and interact with the online game forums or any resources beyond what the game offers within itself??? Out of 20 million players, it's probably a few hundred thousand at best.
I'm a middle aged man with several college degrees in research and writing, and frankly, I find having to sift through all these discussion boards totally overwhelming at times (MOST of the times...) -- I just want to play the dang game and have fun with my online friends. I'm not here to unravel the freaking mysteries of Respawn's coding quagmire.
I'm not trying to dis the game developers either, I know this is complicated stuff, and A LOT of effort goes into figuring out the big balance between all the inputs and outputs to make the game a practical, playable reality. But seriously, for the luv... would you PLEASE prioritize optimizing the server situation??? This is a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER, the ONLY thing that ULTIMATELY matters is smooth, steady, synchronous integration of streaming internet signals from the participating player consoles to the central server's rendering of the unfolding game.
ANY disruption of that streaming synchronicity is a total breach of confidence in the game's ability to be taken seriously. Please quit making new stuff, and make the existing stuff "bullet-proof" first in its ability to be executed faithful and consistently. I feel like I've completely wasted over 100 hours trying to patiently "pay my dues" and learn the ropes and subtleties of each champion's unique abilities, because my input micro-lags -- JUST ENOUGH that almost all my opponents are able to easily slay me -- rage only begins to scratch the surface of the describing the emotional torrent that this ineptitude of the game's performance elicits within.
I'll bet, at best, 1-2% of players avail themselves of these online forums, and again, at best, 1-2% take the time and make the effort to articulate their issues and frustrations. ...help us... whoever at EA is the equivalent of Obi-Wan Kenobi... you're our only hope!
In the patch notes of 1.1.3 it was suggested that some of the out of sync, hit registration failure, and related in-game glitchiness was able to be remedied at the local level, perhaps suggesting that you were able to help certain players tweak their network settings to increase the performance of signal transmission from their routers to the game servers? Is that a correct assumption? And, more importantly, could you PLEASE delineate exactly what steps you took to modify the network settings to alleviate any problems incorrect settings were causing?
I spent two hours this morning and $50 to work with an online networking specialist to help me review and analyze my network interface card settings and the protocols within my router that control ethernet signal transmission to and from the internet. By the end of our consult he was perfectly positive that I had analyzed all the possible causative or potential contributing factors more intensely than anyone he had ever met. He couldn't do anything to improve my poor performance. Please help us all understand how to optimize our settings and such on our end to optimize the outcomes of our matches.
