Restoring What Was Lost
So, are you going to let us edit characters again? (Postion, look, play style.) Are you going to restore the importance of player preferences matching coach preferences? Or is it going to still be a...
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@IrishOwl I’ve been asking about your first question all week… EA Aljo said we are still locked out of editing players… seems that they want to keep it that way for some reason… they didn’t add anything besides the league settings… that was it.
“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
- @kyl_35 If you got an answer saying the NHL wouldn't allow them to do it then what? Would you drop it or go harass the NHL socials?
- @KlariskraysNHL You’re saying that the NHL has a say in a sports video game about whether or not a brightness setting can be changed? Or even editing things like player style, which technically aren’t even official labels… calling Pastrnak a sniper or playmaker is subjective… do you think the NHL actually cares about that, and go out of their way to shut that down? Whereas the NHL’s counterparts in video games or madden fifa etc all have those features of editing and are fine with it?
Not sure where you’re going with this…. Offline community are pretty fed up with paying $80 each year for the same game/little effort being put into the game mode in terms of player requests… especially when they specifically ask us for suggestions and don’t listen….@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.
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.
- @KlariskraysNHL As mentioned above, that is highly unlikely. That said, I don’t have much faith in the NHL brain trust either. So if that was the answer, and there was a venue for me to show the NHL what their actions look like to their fans/customers, then I’d absolutely do it.
For months leading up to this week I was giving EA the benefit of the doubt. There were things they were doing that made me believe they were actually listening to the fans. I got excited after the initial trailer came out and found out we could create our own custom league and “control every aspect of the league.” I took that to mean we would be able to control more than one team, and be able to edit players within Franchise Mode. I responded to these threads giving EA credit for listening to their customers and anxiously awaited more details from the Game Modes “Deep Dive”.
Then the not-so-Deep-Dive came out and confirmed that basically the only change was custom leagues (and a long overdue Stanley Cup celebration). A little disappointing, but at least they were trying to listen to us. Then @EA_Aljo confirmed we would NOT be able to control more than one team and would NOT be able to edit players once Franchise Mode had started.
That made it clear that Custom League is not likely the result of customer feedback, but rather something they probably already had on their roadmap for a couple years. And instead of implementing the customer feedback that would go along with this to make it a wonderful addition to the game, they elected to just ignore it once again.
EA continues to try to placate us with words and then taking minimal or half-assed actions to try to get us to be quiet. I’m simply pointing out to them that it’s not acceptable, as I would in an NHL forum if they had one where they were looking for suggestions and feedback.@kyl_35, there is no doubt in my mind that the decision to allow us to customize our leagues came from the pandemic year. There were a lot of requests to be able to change schedules, playoff matchups, etc, while roster sharing highlighted that even more.
To the majority of users, while a cool feature, a request that has either been forgotten about or will be used sparingly.
They introduced scouting, coaching and the trade deadline half baked, if there was ever a feature that didn’t need to be fully implemented right away it was league customization. There was no need to spend time on home/away playoff matchups, AHL details among others when the coaching, scouting, roster construction and sim engine all need massive improvements.
There are no doubt some things the NHL probably won't allow (suspensions, changing personal player characteristics, career ending injuries), but to not allow features that are already available in other modes or in previous games just makes zero sense as a justification.
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?
