EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerNHL 25 Holiday Update Coming Nov 15th
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EA_AljoCommunity Manager
Community ManagerYou all are acting as if we just threw this together in the last few weeks instead of work on ongoing issues. That's not the case at all. This release did not interfere with post launch support.
You all are acting as if we just threw this together in the last few weeks instead of work on ongoing issues.
There really aren't any other conclusions to draw. A fundamental matchmaking change has impacted a lot of the player-base and all we want to know is what exactly changed in matchmaking and why it was changed.
We're met with "we'll have to wait and see" over and over and then EA starts marketing a 'major update' that seemingly does nothing to address this core issue.
It's just so perplexing that WoC suffers from:
- 1 person can still pause the game for 11 other players - that's absurd
- Users can still grief by playing out of position, causing offsides and being a general troll with no repercussions.
- A club welcoming drop-in players can be held hostage by said players with no tools to boot them
- If a team's one pause is used up in the 1st period, you're unable to call a timeout in the 3rd. Absurd.
- Players with RP of 15,000-19,000 being matched up with sweats that have RP of 25,000+. Absurd.
None of that being addressed while we see new big head mode and PWHL integration rubs me the wrong way and I know I'm not alone in that.
- EA_Aljo
Again, this update has been in development for a long time. It has not taken away from working to improve matchmaking.
And again, people are asking WHY the matchmaking changes were made in the first place. Continuing to stonewall the community on that question isn't helping EA build any goodwill.
100%! There was absolutely Z E R O reason to change that!!
Why was it in development? I understand the PWHL but why in the world would any resources be put towards another game mode when the game isn't even working correctly? It isn't even a major game mode people have been asking for people have been BEGGING for connected franchise. This is so random and shows how absurdly disconnected this company is from the community
- EA_Aljo
Why? Because it's a fun mode. Maybe it's not for everyone, just like connected franchise wasn't for everyone. It's easy to feel a feature was more popular than it was when your friends enjoyed it too. I never played GM Connected and neither did my friends. We sure played 3v3 Arcade in NHL 09 though. It was a lot of fun for us. I'm only using this as an example because you call us disconnected because we don't have your favorite mode from the past, but we brought back a mode you didn't play. However, we brought back a mode that was significantly more popular. And that's not because my friends and I played it. It just was and you can see the reactions we've gotten from this announcement back that up. I don't see how that is being disconnected.
Connected Franchise/GM Connected is a very big undertaking. It's very possible that will mean other, more popular modes will get less attention that year so we can divert resources to it. I don't know if/when this will happen. I know it's something we very much want to do though.
