Community ManagerWhen I look at that, I see hockey. Yes, you don't get passing icons or a pressure meter when you watch a broadcast game on TV, but this also isn't meant to look like you're watching hockey on TV. It's a video game and exceptions are made to improve playing the game. Which is the intent to begin with. That people are going to actually play the game and not just watch 2 AI teams play each other so they can replicate watching a TV broadcast. The last thing I would think about when seeing that gif is a Christmas tree. I get you're exaggerating, but the complaints that this game doesn't resemble anything like real hockey seem pretty ridiculous. I think anyone can look at the game and recognize it's hockey.
I know the added elements that help with gameplay are distracting to the purists and hope we have an option to disable them at some point in the future.
@EA_Aljo wrote:When I look at that, I see hockey. Yes, you don't get passing icons or a pressure meter when you watch a broadcast game on TV, but this also isn't meant to look like you're watching hockey on TV. It's a video game and exceptions are made to improve playing the game. Which is the intent to begin with. That people are going to actually play the game and not just watch 2 AI teams play each other so they can replicate watching a TV broadcast. The last thing I would think about when seeing that gif is a Christmas tree. I get you're exaggerating, but the complaints that this game doesn't resemble anything like real hockey seem pretty ridiculous. I think anyone can look at the game and recognize it's hockey.
I know the added elements that help with gameplay are distracting to the purists and hope we have an option to disable them at some point in the future.
The fact we have to use the term "resemble hockey" in 2023 in an age where AI is creating 1 to 1 animations in 2K tells us how far behind EA is.
Can you show me 3 clips of goalies Flopping like a fish in the NHL this season? Last season? This decade? In the history of the NHL? I can hop on now and get a video within a half hour. Can you show me 5 clips of a Michigan being scored in the NHL this season? Last season? This decade? In the history of the NHL? I scored 2 in my first 6's game. Can you show me how many times this season 1 player has performed a hip check? I'm gonna guess I have more in 1 night than ANY player will get this season. I get your job is to defend this game at all costs and if the aim is just to "resemble" hockey that seems like a pretty low bar for a game that costs as much as a game that does SO much more.
