NHL Team
Community ManagerIt was previously like this for many years. I don't recall ever seeing a complaint about it as well so it seems the community was ok with it.
Community ManagerWhat's your point? We get requests for features to return very frequently. Which often, doesn't happen. This time it did though. Seems like a win for the community as it's been requested since launch.
@EA_Aljo if the dev team could fix the default faceoff line ups and line changes that would be awesome. Going on 2 years now that the default faceoff formation is defensive. Every game we have to rush and cycle through each line to change the faceoff formation before puck drop.
Also there are times where you literally cannot make line changes unless you press b for some reason. If you have possession of the puck that typically means pressing B shoots it and losing possession.
@EA_Aljo wrote:What's your point? We get requests for features to return very frequently. Which often, doesn't happen. This time it did though. Seems like a win for the community as it's been requested since launch.
I meant what was the point of EA changing it the first time?!
It wasn’t a problem before and the community liked it so EA thinks they know best and changes it. Then the community says they want it back so EA changes it back. That’s the problem a lot of the community has with EA. They “fix” things that aren’t “broken” all the time instead of fixing the things that actually are broken.
The new control system is another example. Nothing that wrong with the old one besides maybe a couple of adjustments that were needed. But let’s make it all about accessibility. I rather have something that is harder to do but is more rewarding than something that is easy to do yet unfulfilling.
Obviously it’s a video game but imagine if in the real NHL every player had the same abilities to do all the same skills, dekes and whatever else? That would make it a very unrealistic and unsatisfying league IMO.
@thebrazenhead75It was probably changed due to the pressure system. You get full pressure for what like 30 seconds. So they probably changed the last minute to 30 seconds because of that. But now with the full minute returning that is gonna make full pressure even crazier potentially now.
Controls were changed because they added some new things to the game and had to remap things around. They also were hoping probably that the 1 touch buttons would be a success into bringing new people into the game allowing them to learn faster and hopefully stay with the game longer.
People don't think enough about having to grow the game in terms of sales and such by bringing in new people. Maybe they have people who don't know hockey but play other sports give this a try and complain that controls are too complicated for them. Me personally I'm not a fan of the new controls for the most part. Guess we will see what from NHL 24 is gonna remain going into NHL 25. Might also mean they take less big chances in the future and could play it safe resulting in everyone saying it's just NHL 24.5 like they love to do.
