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@llamaverox wrote:
@EA_Aljo I love hockey. I love the 6s teamwork. There is no other game out that gets the team aspect of a sport game so right. I want the gameplay to replicate my love and it feels shallow and no skill gap. I want to have fun with my favorite series. I am not right now.
I really don't think there's no skill gap. Especially with EASHL. a skilled team of 6s that has great chemistry is going to wipe the floor with a rookie club. 6s is some of the most fun and competitive, team gameplay today. There absolutely is a skill gap. Otherwise, why would leagues even have different divisions? Wouldn't that not even matter? Why would they draft players also? If no skill were required, anyone could be on any team.
Again, why play if you don't like it? I don't play games based on other sports. I just can't get into them like I can hockey. I don't play Franchise Mode in NHL because I don't enjoy it. I guess I don't understand why someone would choose to spend their leisure time with an activity they actively hate.
- EA_Aljo1 year ago
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@MasterB89 wrote:
@EA_Aljo I think it's more a lot of us including myself had such a strong passion for the game and the series as a whole. I remember playing through 3-4 82 games seasons on franchise mode before the next game would release. From NHL 23 and 24 I am lucky to have the urge to play 1 or 2 games every month. So we want to play it cause it has meant so much and we have such a strong passion for NHL, but due to choices being made has diminished that passion to a point where we want to love it but can't.I can totally understand that. Especially for offline modes. They haven't received the same attention recently that online modes have. My EASHL club used to play 4 nights a week. We don't now, but that's not due to not enjoying the game. We've been doing this for 15 years. We all have careers, got married, some of us have kids. Life gets in the way of playing 20+ games a week like we used to. So, I can definitely understand not playing due to a lack of interest. If my favorite mode, EASHL, was no longer fun, I'd be spending my time elsewhere. As you've chosen to do. Hopefully, as the offline modes are expanded on, we'll see players like yourself return.