Restoring What Was Lost

“Why listen to the people who spend hours and hours playing our game when it’s so much easier to ignore them?”

-EA head developer, probably 

@heavydutyrammerThey do have a say in a bunch of stuff. You know when EA brought back NFL Blitz and they removed the hits after the plays and such because the NFL made them.

“When we started working on this game we partnered very early on with the NFL and talked to them about what it is we wanted to deliver. We played the old versions of Blitz with them and we talked with them throughout the course of this entire product development cycle and, at the end of the day, the NFL felt like the late hits did not meet with their take on player health and safety, and they asked us to remove it from the game. Right now we have big action and big, over-the-top gameplay, but once the whistle blows there are no late hits.”

All I know is that when you can't get a simple answer as to why something hasn't happened after years upon years of asking it has to make you wonder why they can't just man up. I mean they don't even tell you they are looking into adding the feature.

Also the online community got part cross-play enabled and a couple more character build slots.  Nothing else besides that.  So don't give the whole $70-80 excuse.  HUT just gets wiped for people to start all over and spend more money.

The biggest problem is that they broke their own game and don't care. In what 2018 or 19, they added coaches. It made it more fun (IMO) to scout NHL players and Prospects to align with your coaches stats. You can't just get a hugh mix of players and gets plus five. Even if you "cheat" (and I don't consider it cheating) to change the player type from TWF to PLY/PWF/SNP becuase they programed in a TWF bias.

In 22, they added X-Factors, which got rid of the TWF bias, but added a whole new level of cheapness. Now, all you need is Magnetic, Third Eye, and Tape to Tape and you can have 3 players with 5 red Xs and still get a +5 line chemistry...

So, we can't turn Morgan Geekie from a TWF to a PLY to give Seattle a little boost, but we can give Yannick Gourde, Jordan Eberle, and Jayden Swartz X-Factors to give the top like an amazing chemistry.

I rebranded the Philadelphia Flyers into the Philadelphia Renegades and with 7 years, (and no cheating) had 11 forwards, 6 defenseman, and 2 goalies with Zone Abilities and Superstar Abilities. Everything was/is a +5 on this team.

Its all rather broken...

100%

I mean adding this "Custom League" this is cool, but its means nothing to us "actual" hockey fans. I want to play and trade players I know and like, along with those I cultivate. 48 teams in a league means nothing to me. And I can't have 1 expansion team every couple years... So what, I have to do 4 expansion drafts all at once?

Not to mention, and this one is kind of a kicker. There are only 8 spaces on the screen. How much do I have to scroll to find league standings... or did they redo the layout?

It's not harassment to point out the truth. They didn't listen to their player base becuase they don't have to.

They didn't listen to the Be a Pro people becuase they made no changes. The added something very few asked for to Franchise, and ignored dozens of people asking for things. You can snap shot yourself in Be A Pro, why can't we snap shot out players in Franchise. You can edit yourself in Be a Pro, why can't we edit in Franchise. These are questions the majority of players ask for, and they get ignored.

And if it turns out the actual NHL is preventing EA from letting us edit players looks, then the answer is yes. We'd reach out to NHL and say, "Why do you hate us?" Again, that isn't harassment, its asking a question. You really shouldn't use inflammatory words like that when trolling.

I stand with you on multiple things @heavydutyrammer. I'm not 100% on the AI changes. Personally, I've never had an issue with mine. Maybe the sim engine.

As far as @KlariskraysNHL The game devs do totally listen to its online fan base, but they back those who spend more money. That is all Rammer is talking about. They tend to over look Franchise and Be a Pro becuase they pay 70 to 80 dollars (or 50 to 60) once, where the online players can drop 50 a month.

The Devs cater to those who spend more, as they should, its a business after all, but all the success you online gamers get, we offline gamers get ignored. It would just be nice is they undid 2 or 3 things they did to make the game better or, and hear me out, released and Offline only version of the game, were they met out wants as well.

You are comparing apples to oranges here. Offline gamers do constantly feel cheated, and if you don't understand that, don't worry, but don't harass us for asking.