EA's Priorities
Rather than taking the True Broadcast thread off topic, I thought it best to create a new thread for this. @EA_Aljoyou were talking about different teams within the NHL team working on different a...
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Howdy all. Friendly reminder that you're free to point out issues with the game (and there are definitely many), but I wanna say Aljo is relaying your feedback with the team and to maybe redirect your frustrations to the higher ups calling the shots.
Exactly! Aljo has nothing to do with the direction of this game. Yet the community managers are being blamed for it. Even Ben Ross is just as frustrated since EA HQ won’t provide the financial stability to hire more staff nor give a reasonable timeline for the deadlines. Instead he is being told to push production of 24 ahead. The burnout is getting real for the EA NHL series team but the product is treated like it’s not as of important compared to games like FIFA. I feel sorry for Aljo at this point despite my own frustrations which I took out on this forums where I got a 3 day ban. Wasn’t directed towards the EA NHL series team but EA HQ.
Everything is being relayed to the devs who do care. Presentation was condensed because of design issues. The money to hire enough staff to deal with the bugs on top of bugs is limited.
That is why EA HQ needs to step in a put more financial stability and hands on deck to fix this mess. Even the Gamechangers which I know a few of them know what’s going on and are just as upset.
@BIGRlTCHY wrote:Exactly! Aljo has nothing to do with the direction of this game. Yet the community managers are being blamed for it. Even Ben Ross is just as frustrated since EA HQ won’t provide the financial stability to hire more staff nor give a reasonable timeline for the deadlines. Instead he is being told to push production of 24 ahead. The burnout is getting real for the EA NHL series team but the product is treated like it’s not as of important compared to games like FIFA. I feel sorry for Aljo at this point despite my own frustrations which I took out on this forums where I got a 3 day ban. Wasn’t directed towards the EA NHL series team but EA HQ.
Everything is being relayed to the devs who do care. Presentation was condensed because of design issues. The money to hire enough staff to deal with the bugs on top of bugs is limited.
That is why EA HQ needs to step in a put more financial stability and hands on deck to fix this mess. Even the Gamechangers which I know a few of them know what’s going on and are just as upset.
So EA, with its billions in profits, decided to disregard the laws of nature to squeeze a few extra bucks out of the game. Long term this harms EA's reputation, weakens its workforce that is familiar with the EA IP in a way that could take years to recover, and potentially forcing EA to abandon IP it spent millions of dollars developing over the years. It is short term thinking that illustrates how capitalism casually makes things worse. NHL 23 is the pinnacle of capitalist game development.
These game developers should unionize across studios. It is the only hope.
