NHL 23 summed up in this video
A buddy made this video. Aljo keeps asking for video of stuff. Here's a great one for you 🙂 [Video removed for immediate profanity - Admin.] EDIT: Video was removed for profanity, wow. Speechless...
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@EA_Aljo
Here's the thing though: I won't speak for others but when I was freaking out about the "week 1 reversion patch" every year, it was because I always enjoyed what you did in the beta and hated that the first patch threw away every change y'all made and turned it back into, essentially, a $90 stat wipe. This year when the team decided "hey, everyone hates when we patch stuff so let's not do anything at all" - the year we absolutely, positively, objectionably NEEDED that patch - It leaves me totally flabbergasted.
Like, it honestly could not have taken the dev team an entire year's worth of time/money/effort to do what we got... That's why I get so heated. Like, instead of just reverting the game back to a previous state or not doing anything at all, I find it weird how the team doesn't want to/can't just sit in a room and discuss ways to making meaningful improvements...
As for the old forum discussions and stuff - I am willing to take some of the blame but not all of it. This was a 50/50 situation that got out of hand. What I got out of most of that was how according to some people, the game was running the way it was supposed to and it was the community that wasn't doing things right (and that my team just needs to "get better"). I would like to suggest the community and dev team start a discussion here under the guise of "aliens are invading earth so we must all set aside our differences for the greater good (of NHL)".
Regardless of all the full sim and arcade stuff, NHL, as a video game, just isn't up to par.
@TTZ_Dipsy wrote:This year when the team decided "hey, everyone hates when we patch stuff so let's not do anything at all" - the year we absolutely, positively, objectionably NEEDED that patch - It leaves me totally flabbergasted.
This. A thousand times, this.
For me each new NHL game from 16 to 22 brought some kind of positive change to the game. They weren't perfect. I didn't necessarily agree with every gameplay change, but they were all generally moving the game in the right direction. And I never felt that any game was "ruined" by post-beta changes, even changes I didn't feel were 100% correct.
That's why the state of the NHL 23 beta was such a surprise. No positive ( IMHO ) changes to the gameplay. Goalies were completely broken and pretty much every defensive tool was either outright made useless or severely nerfed while offensive tools were buffed. During the beta I was telling teammates that there was no way the release version of NHL 23 was going to be the same as the beta. There was no way they could look at the state of the game and be satisfied with it. Boy, do I have egg on my face now.
People not liking changes made post-release to a previous game has nothing to do with what was needed post-release for NHL 23. That attitude is galling. People liked BF3, that doesn't give BF 2042 a pass.
I'd almost rather the excuse be that EA poured all their resources in cross-play this year and had nothing left to deal with gameplay changes. It still wouldn't be a valid excuse, but it would at least not come across as outright insulting.
EA: Y'all like the beta again, huh? Oops! We changed it! Uh oh's!
EA: Wait, y'all DON'T like the beta this year? Well ya shouldn't have asked us not to touch anything the last few years! You played yourself!
