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
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@TTZ_Dipsy wrote:
@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.
We have released patches. There hasn't been a new tuner though. I'm not saying we will never have one, but the stance on it has been that they shouldn't change due to all the backlash we get for releasing them.
@EA_Aljo
I will try to differentiate between patches and tuners better in the future.
There are still bugs in the game that span back to NHL 10 and because nothing was done this year, I'm pretty sure the team is now averaging less than 1 tuner update a year - that is a travesty.
You mentioned earlier that HUT doesn't receive nearly as many updates as people assume but there are brand new cards, and events every week/month (yes this is done in advance, but this time/effort could be spent elsewhere), and you pump money into advertising the tournaments and such - Even if that was all automated, it's still way more than everyone else gets. People are going to be watching a real PAID tournament soon too; all the highest OVR players you could possibly buy in HUT definitely help make up for some of the problems, but not all of them.
It's mid-January now - I don't think the team has ever added a meaningful patch/tuner/update, what have you, this "late" into a game's cycle as it's always "all hands on deck" for the new title, so my best educated guess is everyone has to just deal and hope for '24.
