Gears of War 2 Matchmaking Issues Explained

[keithlewis]

Over the weekend, we contacted Epic Games to find out more about the supposed matchmaking issues users reported in different forums. Several users claimed after the Memorial Day weekend in which Epic Games ran the "Old School" event, Gears of War 2 started to experience issues with Matchmaking similar to those that affected the game right after launch. This time, it's not Epic Games' fault:

Our investigations have shown that the reported issue has to do with a very small minority of players with very poor network connections. When they attempt to host a matchmaking party, they are not able to find matches due to their high network latency. We could increase the ping threshold to allow these players to host but it would have an overall negative effect on the global Gears 2 community as they would begin finding games with greater latency. So while this isn't ideal for a tiny minority of players, it is much better overall for the majority of players. For the players that have this issue, the easiest answer is simply to join another player’s matchmaking party instead of trying to host one themselves.

In terms of when this began, we’ve been making continuous optimizations to the matchmaking experience, and the perceived timing of recent changes with the "Old School" weekend is purely coincidental.

Rod Fergusson
Executive Producer, Epic Games


From:http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/20043/Gears-of-War-2-Matchmaking-Issues-Explained/