We Need Actual Gameplay Fixes For NHL 23...

It’s really quite simple: don’t buy NHL24. It’s the only message they understand.

There’s no point in reporting issues to the community managers because it’s abundantly clear that their entire remit is shush down the glaring problems and gaslight the community by denying glaring issues aren’t really because “we’ve investigated and can’t reproduce the problem” that everyone experiences every single game or “ your video isn’t quite from the right angle/right speed/ doesn’t show context”, or “ you didn’t minutely turn left/right/up/down and in this one single frame x happened” or simple outright locking the topic/deleting the post/banning you for reporting it

And here is why that is the case: they  can’t fix the issues because EA is philosophically bought into the Frostbyte engine - every single game they produce - from RPGs to driving games to first person shooters to sports games are built on the same underlying architecture. there was a good article written two years ago detailing the difficulties they have in writing single player games on an engine that assumes a client-server architecture . So when the NHL team actually has physics problems, that has to get kicked up to the team in charge of the core Frostbyte engine and how high do you think NHL issues, a small franchise with a small community , ranks in their priority list compared to, say, Battlefield, or FIFA or NFL?

so it’s a lot easier to just keep regurgitating the same game, make a few minor tweaks, overpromise the handful of fixes they did , and then tell the community managers to keep a lid on things as best as they can. And as long as the addictive part of pack sales keeps players playing the game and spending money , where’s the issue? The fact that the gameplay is atrocious and the community is upset doesn’t show in the sales figures.

so again: don’t buy NHL24. It’s the only message they will understand. I won’t and I faithfully bought every game since 92. Enough is enough.

Yeah I think 23 is my last one for a while. Honestly the communication is what really makes me mad/sad. Aljo gives half answers or avoids the topic entirely, and what he can talk about he can't say much about. What is the point of having community managers and employees like that when they don't do anything for the community? No transparency on bans/suspensions either which is ridiculous.