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Playing a sweaty HUT game against someone in Rivals. I play defensively given the fact he was just LT abusing the whole game. Get to OT and he rags my twice into his D-zone, trying to get it so my AI...
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Checking my Twitter feed daily and have witnessed so many bugs in regards to NHL 23... I unfortunately experienced some of these myself! Many are game breaking so you can't even enjoy the gameplay, in replacement of the lack of QOL content. The game doesn't add up to the price and it's causing outrage within the EA NHL community...
As someone who plays hockey IRL this game is basically a cookie cutter type compared to previous releases... The issues are problematic and increasing as time goes on. This is how companies fold! When their consumers start asking for after they played the game, and the expectations were not what it represented. It really is frustrating when you have been a longtime community member cracking top 100 leaderboards to not wanting to play at all. I would have been playing more EASHL but since NHL 19 I haven't since I frequent drop-in as clubs to hard to have everyone on at the same time when our schedules are different. 6's is bland for drop-in since the majority requested indoor arena's with jersey selection and that never changed.
There just isn't anything to enjoy about this years game. Sadly I paid a AAA price for this game, so I kind of play it due to my refund request from MS being denied.
I understand some changes were made to EA NHL staff. EA HQ really needs to put more hands on deck. It's not fair the community managers here and on Twitter are being put as punching bags basically, while this game collapses more and more it's played.
My personal opinion would be to cancel production on NHL 24. Fix NHL 23 add some " new " features to it like full seasons Juniors/AHL in BAP, more female hairstyles. and then copy the API/C++ coding from there for NHL 24 release. This will save time in the long run.
Just something needs to be done to fix NHL 23 or it's going to lower the population even when cross=play hits. A, AAA price game needs to have AAA content and gameplay... This is worth $20 at this point...
I started playing online in NHL 20 and drops were always full. Never had much of an issue finding a game. These days you're lucky to have a game with more than 3 people a side and they rarely finish. Game has gone downhill so fast
- @NoManuelAutoonly I really wish you could have played drop-ins back when they had the lobby system. You had about 3 rooms labelled by their regions (so like "North America", "Europe", etc.) and you could create custom rooms to play in with passcodes to get into if you wanted to set up games with a group of people.
North America for sure was filled with maximum capacity (50 people) all day so there had to be a North America 2 room put in automatically which typically had like 15 people in it which was enough to have a drop in game on its own and on good times that may even fill up to 50 as well.
When you're in the rooms you could chat so lots of guys would discuss looking for clubs and setting up club teams and organizing try-outs and all that stuff. It really made the community great for finding games and people to play with. There were enough games set up in each room to eliminate the trolls from showing up and contaminating every game.
You could see how full each game was so you could easily go to the game that was near full (10/12 players or 11/12 players) and then you just joined that, wasted like 10 seconds of your life and boom you were in a game.
Now we are forced to wait for 2 minutes for a game to not even fill because the matchmaking is segregating everybody online. Lobbies were amazing.- EA_Aljo
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@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:
@NoManuelAutoonly I really wish you could have played drop-ins back when they had the lobby system. You had about 3 rooms labelled by their regions (so like "North America", "Europe", etc.) and you could create custom rooms to play in with passcodes to get into if you wanted to set up games with a group of people.
North America for sure was filled with maximum capacity (50 people) all day so there had to be a North America 2 room put in automatically which typically had like 15 people in it which was enough to have a drop in game on its own and on good times that may even fill up to 50 as well.
When you're in the rooms you could chat so lots of guys would discuss looking for clubs and setting up club teams and organizing try-outs and all that stuff. It really made the community great for finding games and people to play with. There were enough games set up in each room to eliminate the trolls from showing up and contaminating every game.
You could see how full each game was so you could easily go to the game that was near full (10/12 players or 11/12 players) and then you just joined that, wasted like 10 seconds of your life and boom you were in a game.
Now we are forced to wait for 2 minutes for a game to not even fill because the matchmaking is segregating everybody online. Lobbies were amazing.The chat was also full of toxicity and offensive content. That definitely wouldn't work today. You also had to deal with racing to a position. Forwards filled up first which means you often had a forward playing defense that wouldn't defend at all. In some cases, someone who had never played goalie would take that position just so they could play and it went poorly to say the least. The trolling then was just as bad as it was now, if not worse since there were no anti-griefing measures. I agree it was quicker to get in to a game, but you often didn't get the position you wanted and still had to deal with unfortunate teammates. I know it takes longer now, but you can at least play your position. Not that this completely prevents trolling of course. It happens and will most likely always happen. This goes for just about any online game.
That was the best time. I was working nights so finding a game like this was much easier compared to now where I can no longer play EASHL during good enough times given my IRL schedule. Me and Senz started a club back in NHL 14. We haven't played much together since NHL 18. I just lost interest due to the arcade trend direction of the game. 90% of my IRL friends gave up after NHL 19. I had like 30+ friends active on this game back then. Now nobody I know IRL plays this since drop-in was primarily their population. It was taken away from us. The gameplay sadly doesn't compensate for the lack of content we have now.
I also remember the much earlier lobbies, and how full that they were. It was relatively simple to get into a game, as to me, positioning wasn't that critical. It was just about playing against online competition, and away from the monotony of playing against the CPU/AI. Factor in that those games were in a much better state, with a population that was much higher.
Now, as for the alleged "toxicity", of which has been posted about these earlier lobbies, these less-than-stellar individuals were few and far between as compared to today's hockey video gamers. In any case, we now have some tools to block and mute these people. Unfortunately, if they're the type of person that happens to be on your team, during a game, they can't be removed from the team despite numerous penalties, purposely scoring on their own goalie, purposely going offside, etc. That's what today's current problem is. Also, as for a player's name, yapping about nonsensical jargon, etc., none of that affects me in any way, shape or form. In other words, my "take offence" meter has a very high tolerance, of which can't be said for today's society. And the latter shouldn't be the deciding factor for how a community of gamers does their best to enjoy the hockey video gaming world.
Bottom line, and with almost three decades into this series, I am not at all enjoying NHL 23. I'm tolerating it, with the help of some wobbly pops. Furthermore, there's too much woke, bugs, truculence, individualism, and CHEL bags full of "gear" that'll never be on any of my characters.
@CDN-MTN-BEAR wrote: Furthermore, there's too much woke, bugs, truculence, individualism, and CHEL bags full of "gear" that'll never be on any of my characters.First time I've ever heard of Chel having "too much woke".
