Lag

I'm surprised to hear this is hard to reproduce, it's been an issue all year.  Most menus that list players and the Edit Lines screen are laggy, probably due to the ridiculously long time it takes to load each face (even the blank default face for generated players) as you scroll.  Anyways, I'll get videos next time I play.

That really isn't true. The part about it not being impossible to play so we're done. We need more video of this. We've had a hard time reproducing this. If you have have any other videos, please post them somewhere they can be streamed so we can investigate this further.

It was fixed.  The patch referred to here (I think it was 1.3.0) made franchise mode completely unplayable.  Since that was fixed in the following patch, it's been, as you said, "close to unplayable", not completely unplayable.  From EA's point of view, as long as it's not impossible to play, they've done their jobs.

Is this ever getting fixed? It's close to unplayable in franchise mode.

This is by far the worst NHL game I have ever owned. 

Is there any update on a fix for this. 

It makes it unplayable.

This is an issue we're aware of and investigating.

The lag on squad battles is absolutely hilarious. My players are literally teleporting from one end of the zone to the other 

And I thought my console was acting up..

What even is this patch note??

Editing lines is absolutely unbearably laggy now, just get rid of it

EA_Aljo 

Sorry to reply to my own post, but after playing some more I have better observations of the damage this patch did to franchise mode.

First, I was wrong about the free agent and draft class screens.  They are sometimes fast, sometimes slow, as it was before the new patch.

The major problem is in the scout assignments, edit lines, and view contracts screens.  Every single time you scroll to a different player there is a 2 second delay before you can do anything.  This makes editing lines absolutely miserable.  It was laggy at times before, but now it's downright painful... move to a player, wait 2 seconds, select that player, move to the player you want to swap them with, wait 2 seconds, select them to swap, wait another 2 seconds for the line chemistry to update...  Assigning players to scouts likewise requires waiting 2 seconds every single time you scroll to another player.  Same in the view contracts screen.

I assume this is caused by this (from the patch notes):

• Added processing delay for the player card update that occurs when hovering over a different player within a spreadsheet and Edit Lines

Why would EA intentionally inflict this pain on their FM players?  Is this another ruse to force people over to HUT?

It’s so so bad. I have never seen it this bad. I had that happen to me as well in franchise.  You have to spam the buttons for it to register. What’s incredible.. is that even if you go offline with no internet connection, it lags. I’m not putting up with this again. If this doesn’t get patched asap, it’s getting returned and I’m moving on. Not the first time I have returned an EA product after a patch broke a game. So disappointing.