Icon passing not working in club games

I had to turn off the Ps5 controller speaker all together to avoid having to change settings prior to every game... and now I have to adjust settings in other games that do use the controller speaker adequately... 

Based from that, these latest patch and what I know of the industry - they work about 3-4 months on the new game, in Q1-Q2, then are given 2-3 months to polish. Then support it for the last Q4.

No wonder it's a mess.

They should have two studios do 1 game every two years like COD/MW. But they don t sell enough copies to justify it, which gives a subpar product which leads to low sales number.

Thanks. I'll get this reported.

I won't go as far as saying there's no testing at all, but the type of bugs showing up after the recent patches certainly doesn't paint a good picture of the state of their manual and automated testing processes.

The icon passing bug should have been immediately obvious during manual testing.  The XP bug, while harmless, should have been picked up by basic automated tests.  And I've seen people reporting other issues with stat tracking that again should probably have been picked up by automated tests.

I've been involved with long-lived code bases in the past, and I get how difficult it can be to work with when code is piled upon code over many years.  But that's why it's so important to invest in proper testing processes.  To catch those unexpected side-effects before pushing things to production.

My speculation is that EA probably doesn’t allocate many devs or resources to this game because it’s not high up in popularity, nor a huge money-maker for them compared to other titles. Given that and the fact that it also seems to be waning in popularity year by year (their own doing), it’s probably essentially a skeleton crew of a team allocated to work on these things. 

No disrespect to any dev, but why would we have to post a video of this issue, can you not hop on the game and see it?

I've got it reported. The team is looking into icon passing needing to be enabled for each game.

There's also the possibility of good ol' fashioned incompetence. Remember, this is the same dev team that hasn't been able to fix goalie control settings not saving for TWO YEARS.

It's more like probability. Without fail, every update they break something, then spend weeks "trying" to patch that issue, only to break something else. Its like clockwork man, and its unfortunate because EA just doesn't care because at the end of the day, hockey fans will still buy NHL, and addicts will continue to buy HUT packs because that's what they are, addictive, and EA knows this. 

Hey i noticed sometimes it works and some times it doesn't as well. 

It worked for a few games last night in clubs. But noticed icon passing went away aftet I changed my camera angle mid game. Hope this helps get to a solution. 

What's going on with the reporting of this issue? I still need to turn on icon passing in the visual settings at the start of every club game. The one timer visual setting also is always off now even after having it on in the woc and main menu settings.