Should something be done about Matchmaking and Regional gameplay

[HySquid]

Matchmaking:

Every match I play always has a game stomping team.

A team that immediately overpowers the other team.

A team that wrecks everyone.




Regional Gameplay:

Having to fight players around the world sucks, mainly because of lag.

I'm tired of having to deal with this.

I shoot a player 5 times with a strong weapon and nothing happens.

I shoot a player 3 times with a and he survives, activating his

He had NO defense-ups.

Oh, and Japanese players?

I hate fighting them too.

Mainly because of lag and it's like they play 24/7.

http://kotaku.com/why-japanese-splatoon-players-are-feared-1728427132

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/09/...of-playing-splatoon-with-inklings-from-japan/

 

[Robins]

Lag is by far the biggest problem for me with Splatoon. I love everything else, but lag is present in almost every single one of my games. I've pretty much learned to play with it.

Unfortunately this far into the games life, I doubt anything will be done about it. Regional matchmaking would be ideal for latency but probably wouldn't help much, considering America's internet sucks in comparison to other countries'.

Still, a multiplayer game should never be locked to worldwide matchmaking. Even Mario Kart 8 has regional options.

 

[Cuttleshock]

I find it a little amusing that the Kotaku article linked conveys precisely the opposite message to what you're trying to say...

Couple of problems with regional matchmaking. First is that, based on regional Splatfests, Americans (and Europeans, and other Westerners) have awful internet. In my experience, I get laggier matches when I can read the names in the lobby than otherwise. Secondly, given that Splatoon is slowing down in its playerbase, splitting it by region, even giving the option, could cause huge waiting times in lobbies. It also completely ignores certain situations such as OC (Australia and the like), which is way too small to get its own regional matchmaking but which is just as far from the rest of the PAL region as Japan.

 

[Smashling79]

Nothing will probably be done about this now since Nintendo is more focused on developing the NX. Probably will be done in a sequel to this game if there ever comes one.

 

[Cuttlefish]

i don't want regional matchmaking. a lot of reasons, but a good one is.. i live in Europe, and almost all the times i play, 99.9% of players are from Japan. our playtimes just match up. European players arent dedicated enough. i do see eng-name players but usually during American peaktimes which isn't ideal for me. so if there was regional matchmaking... i'd probably have very few people to actually play with.

 

[Aori]

As many people have said here- Maybe it can be an option...?
That seems more fair.

 

[Cuttlefish]

As many people have said here- Maybe it can be an option...?
That seems more fair.

potentially, but i don't agree. if it happened in Europe, considering my post above, players would be spread even thinner...

 

[Aori]

potentially, but i don't agree. if it happened in Europe, considering my post above, players would be spread even thinner...

That makes sense.
I can see why they don't do that then.

 

[Dessgeega]

Global matchmaking will always be a thing because Nintendo is a Japanese company and maintaining regional matchmaking costs money, the bane of every corporation.