Why doesn't Quick Match work???

Post » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:09 am

Hello everyone. I am a lifelong console gamer who recently switched over. My progression path was something like NES > SNES > Genesis > Saturn > PS1 > PS2> 360... and when I saw how much PCs were dominating consoles as far as raw power in this generation, I bought a PC.

Now. Quick Match is absolutely borked on PC. I can't say how well it's working for 360 or PS3. If you try to Quick Match into Ranked, it infinitely puts you alone into a lobby saying searching for 5 more players. And nothing happens. If you go to Unranked, it just says something alone the lines of "No games found". One time I was able to get into a round from Quick Match through Unranked, but one time only. And that game crashed.

Now I know people will just say just go to Custom Matches problem fixed. The reason it's NOT fixed so easily, is I want to play a certain game type when I want to play it. Sometimes I want to play Team Deathmatch. I'm not interested in Free for All, not interested in Headquarters. I want to play some TDM. So I go into the Custom Games and choose a TDM.

First off nearly every time you join a Custom Game you get put into a game in progress. Which flat out svcks. Secondly, these unranked custom servers (cause for some god forsaken reason NONE of the Ranked servers even work) almost never stay on the same game type twice in a row. Even if I join a custom Team Instant Action, next game it's Crash Site, or Free for All. Third, these unranked custom servers have borked rules... sometimes there's no HUD at all, no map, no Energy bar etc. Sometimes there's no suit powers at all.

Is it wrong to want to be able to get into a lobby and chain games of Team Instant Action with the standard rules? Because right now that is barely even possible. The thing is, I like the game. The gameplay is great. But they need to fix these things. At this point it's borderline Better Business Bureau material.

Like for example, I got the game at midnight release, went home, and it said I couldn't play it for another 10 hours... you can't sell something that the customer cannot use. And then even when the game does come up, the damn multiplayer Matchmaking barely works... WTF is this.
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