It should be obvious at this point. They are doing everything they can to drive people away from every other game mode and to get you over to HUT. They have to provide other game modes in the game besides HUT but they make them glitchy, buggy and unplayable as possible and HUT runs like a machine. A micro transaction machine. That's all they want you to play
Community ManagerHey there. We are not purposely putting issues in offline modes to drive anyone to HUT. If we truly only wanted everyone to play HUT, that's all that would be available. For example, we put significant work into Franchise Mode for NHL 25. There is only so much work that can be done each year. We tend to focus on the modes where the highest population of players are. BaP has a smaller community. We absolutely still care about this though. We've just had to focus on other areas first. Hopefully, we'll see this mode get an overhaul in the future.
I don't know if I fully believe that this year. I have put in 80+ games in franchise mode and yes it does have its issues still.. it is an upgrade from previous years and you can have some cool moments with the conversations (positive and negative outcomes).
Although they may be making some improvements on visuals and out of game action items, the problem is there are so many bugs and glitches in the basic gameplay. Stuff that has existed for 3-4 straight years and they don't bother to even try to fix. The amount of times that I'm in be a pro and come out of a sim between shifts to find a random own goal scored is insane. Just now it happened while I was in the box and the game glitched and left me in the penalty box for the remainder of the game!
It's not by accident. All designed to frustrate you and get you into another game mode.
