Community Manager
Alright, It looks like I misread when it was actually coming due to being so frustrated and desperate for fixes. Honestly, I am not going to apologize. EA is the one who should be apologizing to the community for releasing such a broken trash game. NHL games always have issues, but this year is on another level.
- Terrible and broken UI
- Bad presentation changes
- Added micro-transactions
- Broken club uniforms
- Broken matchmaking
- Interference penalties
- Control scheme nightmare
- Worse hitting
- Worse puck protect
- Hip checks and Lacrosse abuse. One button for one of the highest skill moves in hockey? Really?!
- Broken sticks and broken glass interrupting play.
- Bad pressure/fatigue system
- Terrible dumping/clearing mechanic
- Annoying pressure overlay that you can't turn off
- Annoying vision passing icons that you can't turn off
- Bad player indicators that are easy to lose track of your player (especially when coming out of a scrum)
- Still has graphics artifacts flashing in drop-in after 3 years!
etc...
The game is a total disaster and a disgrace. It is worse than BF 2042 at launch! YIKES!
If EA actually cared, they would never release the game in this state. Either delay it or cancel it and come back with a better effort for NHL 25. This current broken mess is unacceptable.
Crazy to think they make record profits developing games in this manner over the hay days of nhl before micro transactions and hut took off with card packs, sad that what used to be some of the most creative and passionate projects have just turned into an annual online store for whatever game it is. They don't even need the annual game sale to be even remotely profitable anymore but you better damn well believe they'll take your money anyway and deliver a less finished product each year. I miss going on the old eashl forums back in the day because I wanted to learn more about the game and all the different build ideas people had. Now we just come on these forums to complain about all the broken game mechanics and graphical glitches, what a decline.
