(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Have you ever noticed that in MW2 you rarely get into games with a bad connection, but in Black Ops, it doesn't seem like that? That's the stupid matchmaking system of Black Ops for you. According to an Activison representative on a Facebook post on Activision's official page, matchmaking in Black Ops is based on account country, and not ping (what MW2 did). This makes the system flawed in three ways.
First, if a person who has the same account country as you do has a bad ping to you, that lags it and makes the game less enjoyable.

Second, try travelling with your console... Imagine you went on a vacation from the US to the UK, and took your console to do something at night. Your account is a US account, and Black Ops searches for US players, which are all based in the US. When you connect, you lag. It doesn't search for UK players, which it would if it searched by ping.

Third, many people in countries other than basically US, UK, Japan, and Australia, create an account in one these four, as their stores are a lot better than others. The game searches games based on the country they picked. Since they aren't even IN that country, they enter a game that's pretty laggy.

All of this would be solved if the game searched for lowest ping. If local matchmaking worked (which presumably should search for lowest ping; local matchmaking doesn't seem to work on PS3, see below) this would all be solved, and people could actually play the game and have fun as they're supposed to.

Another thing about Black Ops is a lot of people seem to have strict NAT, but have it open on MW2 (don't know much about that though).

Some notes on PS3 version:

Really, Black Ops on PS3 just isn't on par with the 360 version in regards to matchmaking. People are lucky to get into a game with 2 bars... Also, remember when Treyarch said that regional matchmaking won't be in the PS3 version, then said that it would be? Doesn't seem to be like that. Local matchmaking just doesn't work! It seems like they just increase game search time to give the illusion of that. (never tried local on 360, so I don't know if they have that problem too)

What I want to know is, what system do you prefer (ping or account country), and have you ever experienced connection issues?

My connection seems to be fine on BO.
It's no different to what I had on MW2. On both games like 1% of the time I'll get into a 1 baring lobby and it won't migrate host but it's not a really annoying thing as everyone's lagging.

What console? PS3? I hear a lot of complaints though.

Yeah PS3.
But 70% of the time I pull host on BO so no-one lags and the lobby is playable =D

:p Lucky you... What about the other 30%?

BO lags to much