WOC Drop-In State

I agree with everything you said, I just think EASHL drop-ins are dead because it's just a glitch goal/exploit simulator as EASHL's gameplay this year has been really bad.

Dropins are in a sad state for a myriad of reasons.

1. EA does nothing to deter quitters

If I wanted to play vs the boring and predictable ai, I would be playing offline. EA needs to do literally anything about this.

2. EA does nothing to deter trolls (for 13 years now).

There is still absolutely nothing in the game to punish, deter or stop trolling. Want to play a goalie and keep leaving the net? Cool, we can just toss some forwards in the penalty box. Why not go start some fights too and get even more teammates put in the box? EA needs to do literally anything about this.

3. The games take forever.

This is for several reasons. 

A. Stop letting so many fights happen

B. There are a ton of penalties in dropins, speed up the time it takes to get from a called penalty to the next faceoff.

C. There are a lot of goals in dropins. Again, speed up the process to get to the next faceoff.

D. 2 pauses will be used every game for quitters. Let the babies leave without pausing the game.

E. 30 second break between periods.

If you do the above so a game doesn't take so long then this break can be 10 seconds because we won't a actually need a break.

F. RP system that punishes good players who play well but get stuck with trolls or scrubs.

I like the idea of ending the games quicker when people quit but if you want people to stay in the first place then don't punish the rp of the remaining players, you win or have no change.

I also suspect there are a lot of players like me and my friends who hate the outdoor rinks and playing Grey sweatshirts vs black sweatshirts. I literally don't know which team I'm on about 1/3 of the time when looking at between period stats. Go back to arenas and uniforms. You could even implement a way for players to offer up their custom jersey designs etc. and now you have more things to put in the loot boxes.

This mode has gotten very stale and it's effected the quality of the experience, the amount of players in it and the quality of those players, leaving an experience that very few find satisfying.

@jrago73so my response to this feels like this is coming from past NHL experience and not the most recent games
1. I wouldn't say boring and predictable as much as I will say positionally sound vs a team of randoms playing drop in.
2. I have played at least 100 drop in games and have seen I think one instance where the goalie did this.
3A. Again haven't seen many instances of multiple fights happening in a game.
3B. This I can 100% agree with as I have seen plenty of Enforcer 6'7" 270 that just murder people whether it be legal or not. Latest game had one guy in the box for over 20min. How can you enjoy almost a full period waiting is my question?
The jersey thing I think is fine but does need some branding or logo change so you can fully tell the difference between which team you are. I remember in the past using jerseys caused problems when people didn't want to wear away and changed their jersey to home and that made for issues. As for the arena, to me its supposed to feel like pond/pickup hockey so that's fine. Which is why I said make it like pond and shorten the game time dramatically.
The rest I can agree with though to an extent. Either way some thing needs to change.

@hiperay 

I'm guessing you're a Playstation guy?

I'm on xbox.

There are 2-3 fights most games, usually for no reason during the faceoff.

The goalie trolling tends to be most popular around release and Christmas time.

The ai plays more sound but they will also react to you the exact same way in the same situation every time, if that's not boring and predictable I don't know what is.

The pond stuff I understand your side, that part is just personal preference for people.

It would also help if getting into a 6v6 (or 5v5) game didn't often take 2-4 trips through the lobby between not filling up, getting dropped or people quitting because only one team has a goalie etc. But other than the lobby crashes those aren't really under EA's control.

Can goalie fights just be taken out of the game..? Like seriously,you almost never see a goalie fights, then the RW get punished for it... (Which is what I play). That's just my opinion,also it slows the game down unnecessarily. IMO

Absolutely NO XP LOSS to those of whom have stayed and watched their entire human-based team quit, regardless of what caused those people to quit, and regardless of what online mode that you're in. This should have never been implemented, ever. 

If you're playing random games, pause/time out and watch people abandon the "sinking ship". Overly reactive vs patience. The former is far more common, especially in today's PvP. 

It's not really surprising seeing so many people quit out of drop-ins because they ultimately don't matter. If there was a reason to stay and compete, I'm sure there'd be a lot less trolling and stuff

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@hiperay wrote:
@TheUnusedCrayonI don't know if I fully agree with this. Yes it is dying, but I have been able to play quite a bit of 6v6 since the good implementation of cross console play.

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oh you can if you play with friends and invite people. If you play solo, goooooooooodddddd luck!