EA Testers.

Riktorious wrote:

Opposing players hang out by blue line  tap tap tap ask for puck from goalie or D and away they go.

This is the nature of random drop-ins. I can't fathom why EA hasn't done basic quality of life fixes:

• Stop allowing a player to pause the action for everyone. I know they can only do it once, but the guaranteed pause in action after a quick first goal is insufferable. I know it's only 30-seconds but it's 30 completely unnecessary seconds of just waiting for the insecure players to quit or for someone to quit scrolling on their phone.
• Stop allowing players to call for passes. Take the function completely out of drop-ins. It's not needed. 
• Cut down replay times and remove intermissions. There's no need for a 30-second intermission between periods. Furthermore, it's not only 30-seconds anymore. Now with the 'Infinite Replay' system, we're subjected to a 45-second slow motion replay of a goalie making the most mundane save during the previous period, and then we're forced to sit and wait 30 more seconds. You're looking at 1:30 wait time between periods now during which, there's literally nothing to do but wait. It's so silly and ridiculous
• Allow drop-in players to match with clubs exclusively. People won't mind waiting an extra few seconds to find a club with an open spot when it means not having to be subjected to the cesspool of randoms. 

It's little changes like this that EA ignores every single year that has left me jaded and disappointed when it comes to EASHL.

Gameplay is great this year, but quality of life changes would make things so much better.