wizzo wrote: »

VARD67876 wrote: »

because altho there are far fewer fifa 17 servers they aren't being hammered to death and ran over spec, i doubt they are using the same hardware across versions just swapping 99% of it each update.

If everyone organised to log into fifa 17 at the same time and find a match the servers there would crash in short order

M8 when everyone was playing fifa 12,13,14,15,16,17,18 it was not lagging... i do understand that there is not so many playing fifa 17 today but for 3 years ago everyone was playing it and there was not so many complain about delays

Because until rivals head to head games were mainly p2p ( with some server assistance)

Now everything needs an instanced server on hardware, and hardware costs money.

If the average peak number of games going on at any one time is say 50k, guess what EA might barely pay for enough server capacity to run 50k instances. Anything over that and pot luck if you happen to be on an overloaded server cluster.

Plus they use the same servers for all thier games, thats why EVERYTHING EA often goes down at the same time.

You're asking for peak time redundancy from EA here... not going to happen.