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...
Forum Discussion
@EA_Aljo wrote:There were times we changed nothing and people still wouldn't believe that was the case. We rolled back to the beta and were accused of not actually doing that. So, no matter what we do, people are going to hold fast to their assumptions.
I absolutely agree the game needs improvements. Patches have been released to help, but obviously there are bigger issues the community wants resolved. However, the more time spent on 23 means less time for what's coming down the road. You all want big changes. You want it to not feel like the same game with a roster update. In order for that to happen, work on the current game needs to halt at some point.
That's not right, or fair. You want us to be ok with a half cooked game this year so you can focus on next year? Cool, stop telling us to contact our retailer and have EA give us our money. It's EA telling us you're not doing crap, not that retailer. Also, the support ended day of release this year. The patches you e released fixed none of our complaints (You attempted with presentation and still fell way short of what was originally promised) and you want us to just have faith that if we give you a pass this year, next year will be better? We've all heard that like 5 times now. When does the back and forth blaming end, and real accountability begin? Do you all want to be jobless in a few years? Because with how you're handling this series, I give it 5 years max before EA calls it quits. Maybe that's the intention? Milk it until profits dry up then close up shop? Obviously above your head aljo but it seems apparent from the outside looking in.
"The patch for NHL X is called NHL X+1 and will come out in October". This used to be a stupid, unfunny joke people would make, now it's essentially the official development strategy for the EA NHL franchise. Releasing a game and then expecting your customers to pay full price again next year for the chance at seeing any gameplay fixes isn't acceptable and won't be successful long-term . They've only got away with it in recent years because while there were issues with the the last couple of NHL games they were more or less solid out of the gate. But when an unpolished, unfinished, unbalanced mess like NHL 23 is put out there the "fire and forget" model of software maintenance is exposed.
The real kicker for NHL 23 is that all of the major gameplay issues people are complaining about now were pointed out during the beta. It's not like they just became apparent after people adjusted to a new meta months after release. There was plenty of opportunity early on to address the problems and polish the game. Instead EA expects us to pony up more money next fall in the hopes that MAYBE some of our feedback will have resulted in a better game. And of course there will be a whole new suite of problems in that game that won't be fixed until some future release ( if at all ).
I've tried for years to do what's been asked of the community. I've provided feedback for specific problems with video evidence. I've been reasonable in accepting that not everything can be fixed for every game. But at this point it feels like there's no real point. Feedback is irrelevant for the current game ( you know, the one people have actually paid for and are trying to play right now ) and any changes are years away at best. And what changes are made seem to be made to cater to some "community" out there that thinks that NHL 23 is good as-is. What's the point?
