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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@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 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.
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.
Well, the justification is that it won't make them any additional money, so why waste time.
Like I said before, and I'll say it again and probably get a temp ban, but since they don't have any competition on the open market, they have no reason to make the modes better.
It make take hundreds of hours (or 30 seconds, I really don't know which) to make the simple changes. I don't know anything about coding, but business I understand. If they add what we want, when there is no negative to us not buying. They might sell a few less games, but the real money in gaming isn't the purchase price, its the monthly subscription fee and/or micro transactions.
If they earn 1 cent per player per day, with a fan base of say 50,000 players, they are earning 500 dollars a day that's 182k a year on top of subscriptions. Thats a heck of a lot more then what they get from off us offline gamers.
Now, consider why they won't give us an online mode...like online Franchise. If they did, they'd probably charge us 15 dollars a month to play games...
