Community ManagerThe fact this game is priced to rival top quality games that stay on the market for years and this is months after release is absolutely ridiculous.
I understand that unlike most games, you can’t push your release date and are expected to produce your product on a tight deadline. But the focus on offering a quality product is lost. By the time you “might” make this a better game we will be far into the season and that much closer to the next release.
Im watching your ratings get worse and worse year after year. Where’s the fix for that? When do you guys stop shooting yourselves and our wallets in the foot and go maybe let’s not do this yearly with unrealistic deadlines and a community that offers more 1 star ratings to our product than any other star?
the fact you pump out this game every year as fast as you can and still have the same stemming issues on top of a whole onslaught of new ones is absolutely baffling.
Kill the year to year release, stop reaching into your communities pockets, and make a quality product.
simple as that
Was the broken black jerseys in world of chel fixed?
@southpaw86 wrote:The fact this game is priced to rival top quality games that stay on the market for years and this is months after release is absolutely ridiculous.
The last version I paid for was 21. Glad I didn't shell out for any of the last three...21 was the final straw. I'm shocked so many people keep thinking this cycle is going to change.
I wouldn't be surprised if they kill the game next year and blame the fans for lack of interest. They have NEVER listened to their fan base, except the HUT people. They remove things we like, and add things no one asked for and no one wants, and when we complain, we get crickets.
Every year, they have to patch the hell out of the game right from the start in order to make it even moderately playable. For anyone to suggest that this game is worth the price tab they keep slapping this thing with is absurd at this point.
Only played one game since the update.
Defending feels different, I felt more in control when going for a check. Wasn't missing as much and when I did miss I wasn't flying up the ice like Usain Bolt.
Also the CPU didn't seem as fast when trying to get the puck back. Always felt like the CPU reaction time to retrieve the puck was way too fast.
Man, you hit the nail on the head. Yearly releases don’t make sense and haven’t for years. They made sense back with actual discs to update rosters and players year to year. Today, that’s a simple 2GB update or patch every calendar year (or more frequently with trades and the draft).
The framework, player builds, and customization are 90% identical each year, with 10% in new (usually bad) concepts. EA needs to stop peddling half-baked games year in and year out and ride one out for 3-4 years with roster and gameplay updates periodically.
I’m a numbers guys, so I dug into the EA NHL ratings on the Microsoft store since 2017 (when you could make the case the “copy and paste” concept at EA really started being the norm). It’s comical.
2017: 3.1 stars (actually decent)
2018: 2.3 stars
2019: 2.1 stars
2020: 2.1 stars
2021: N/A on the MS store
2022: N/A on the MS store
2023: 1.9 stars
2024: 1.6 stars (actually awful)
@DoctorDeuce39 wrote:Man, you hit the nail on the head. Yearly releases don’t make sense and haven’t for years. They made sense back with actual discs to update rosters and players year to year. Today, that’s a simple 2GB update or patch every calendar year (or more frequently with trades and the draft).
The framework, player builds, and customization are 90% identical each year, with 10% in new (usually bad) concepts. EA needs to stop peddling half-baked games year in and year out and ride one out for 3-4 years with roster and gameplay updates periodically.
I’m a numbers guys, so I dug into the EA NHL ratings on the Microsoft store since 2017 (when you could make the case the “copy and paste” concept at EA really started being the norm). It’s comical.
2017: 3.1 stars (actually decent)
2018: 2.3 stars
2019: 2.1 stars
2020: 2.1 stars
2021: N/A on the MS store
2022: N/A on the MS store
2023: 1.9 stars
2024: 1.6 stars (actually awful)
People give bad ratings to a game when they lose a sweaty HUT battle and take a few L's in a row. How have you accounted for these salty reviews? And don't say they don't happen, because they do.
Is it just pure coincidence that user-ratings decline as competitive modes such as HUT become more popular?
