ShinyShoes I think you are correct in that the issue is WAY more widespread than we may have thought (kinda long message here, bear with me bro it's interesting and a quick read). I mean this is a LONG thread on the EA forums, 46 pages and counting of people complaining, and I don't think we've even scratched the surface of the amount of people this is impacting, or even close to it. I've had a slow week, work-wise, so I've been playing a lot of games, and while I wasn't keeping exact track, I can conservatively say that no more than 1 out of 5 or 6 actually had a rank, the rest were dashes just like us.
Interestingly, some were veterans like myself (I've got roughly 150 games played) with between 6-8K rank points who had a dash as ranking like me, while others were complete noobs with like 8 games played total, one had 12 games, another I think only 5. These noobs had like 500 - 800 or 1000 - 1500 rank points or so tops, and had a dash for a ranking as well. AND, pretty much every type of player in between, I.e dudes with 4K rank and 60 games played, guys (like me) with 150 or so games and a 7K rank, and also the dudes with 9000+ rank with hundreds and hundreds of games played (don't they have jobs or school?) and again like only 1 in 5 or 6 of these high rank point dudes actually had a rank, and they would be high rankers, top 1-3 percent the dudes I had SOOOOOOOOOO much fun playing in last years madden, had a dash, no rank. So, it didn't appear to matter two sharts what your rank SHOULD be, or how many rank points you had, how many games you've played etc... Conservatively, again, 1 in 5 at the most had a real ranking. Now............
,,,,,, not a scientific study, just observations over this past week. I think I'll take the next two weeks or so and actually record my opponents rank points, games played etc and weather they had a real ranking or a dash. Reading the first 45 pages of this thread, it seemed like there was some type of rhyme/reason or something that set off the glitch, but my initial observation here pretty much shows it is just COMPLETE garbage code written by bottom of the barrel programmers making less than teachers who literally do not know how to write this basic code without inadvertently putting a bad line or two in the code that totally fudges up the game. It's fairly obvious that it is just bad code somewhere that is acting as a "virus". Most PC people who come to my complaining about a virus don't have a virus, it was just some bad code in their printer driver update that kinda mimics a virus' behavior. Quite sure that's what is going on here, and it'll be a cold day in he11 before EA pays their upper echelon of programmers to pour through the code and find where the new grads effed up. I am VERY curious why this never happened to me last year.
Anyhoo, we'll see, I'm curious to actually record some of the data/demographics on who has dashes and who has a rank, maybe it'll shed a bit of light on who it is impacting the most, but man, it certainly appears to be random and widespread as all heI1. .
Regards,
Scott
