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@heavydutyrammer wrote:
@EA_AljoAlright, thanks for that information.
Can you please pass along this feedback:
Coaches IRL adapt their coaching strategies when they go 3-15, or even when they have certain players… look at Phil Kessel, he’s a great player but known for not being super coachable, and if you just let him do his thing, he’ll score you the goals, back in the PIT days.
So now we have stonecold coaches that don’t have any adaptability, so our only choice is to fire a coach every time? I get during a coach happens but so often because they don’t adapt to our players? Players also have to adapt too. Same thing as coaches.
Also, though, it’s not a GM mode.. it’s a Franchise Mode. So really, we should be able to edit things so we can play how we want, and how we like. What’s wrong with being able to play how we want? It doesn’t hurt anyone, it’s offline. Doesn’t affect anyone else.
So many of us are so unhappy with these changes, it pushes us away from the game. I’m not buying it this year because of the removal of these features. Lots of people on Reddit aren’t, as are many on these forums, because they are removing the things that we enjoyed, and found fun. So if you can let them know that, that they are pushing so many fans away with these choices, it would be appreciated.
Editing players was also a huge loss because let’s face it, it’s the truth, the CPU generated prospects very often do not make logical sense, such as a 6’5 240lbs LW SNP with awful accuracy, bad skating, bad puck skills, and good face off, good physical, good power.. we can’t change it to what it should be. A PWF centre. And we can’t change the CPU generated PWF Centre 5’8 165lbs speedy, good accurate shooting, good puck handling, poor face off, poor physical, poor defensive to a RW SNP like he should be. That ruins the game. A lot. We all know you and the other CM’s have seen this, and seen our frustration with not being able to fix it. And even then, it just makes the game more fun. That’s what it boils down to.. making the game fun. Look how unhappy we all are. I know I’ve been difficult, and annoying, but it’s out of passion for hockey and fun video games and frustration of receiving an unfun, buggy game. So I do apologize for being difficult, but I will continue to be vocal and ask for change, good change that we want and have been asking for, for years. I’ll try and increase my civility in the meantime
What I think needs to be stressed is that it is paternalistic when you limit what players do that only affects them. You are saying you know what they would enjoy better than they do. They cannot be trusted to provide for their own decisions.
Moreover, it would make much more sense if we were talking about an artist. If this was like a fancy 5 star chef who refuses substitutions because you must experience his vision that he bleeds, that is one thing. However, the devs are not being artists here. They don't have a vision. The sheer lack of attention to detail shows that they don't care about these modes. They are fine if the modes don't work - because they don't care. They are not asking us to try something they lost sleep over - they don't care about the product they offer offline. There are numerous things they would be doing to make sure things worked properly if they cared about offline. We might tolerate it if we thought it would lead to prompt fixes to that which we wanted to edit for - aside from those who just want to escape the world by playing God. I cannot change my player's hairstyle or facial growth because it wouldn't be realistic? I cannot change their hair color because hair dye doesn't exist in this alternate universe? They can't grow old? 50 year old players cannot go gray because that's unrealistic?
@EA_Aljo ask them why players online are playing the coach but players offline are not? EA advertised that they were saving their chosen strategies to save them time - but we somehow are not playing the coach.
Why was it renamed Franchise Mode anyway if not to get away from the concept that you are just the GM and toward the concept that you are in charge of the franchise?
BASIC editing features like changing hairstyles on prospects/ game made characters, player type and position need to come into the game for me to even want to consider buying these again, even on sale (bad enough you cant even change presentation to full anymore)
Older games let you at least change position and style but not even being able to change a players hair from grey, which has NEVER been an option I swear, that's just sad because IT"S HAIR... players grow, cut their hair all the damn time (not to mention how many grey/ silver hair kids do you know) by 15 or so years your franchise mode is consisted of grey hair generic faced clones who are like 80%-90% snipers.
Who cares if we can make a team full of snipers rocking Jagr's mullet, go 82-0-0, win the cup, have them all tie Gretzky for points, only to turn them all into enforcers and never win a single game the next season. ITS AN OFFLINE GAME MODE let us play it the way we want too.
