NHL 25 Holiday Update Coming Nov 15th

For what it's worth, people are acting like you just threw this together in the last few weeks because it always feels like you just threw this together in the last few weeks. Then you guys ignore the community on issues you either don't care to fix ($$$) or are apparently incapable of fixing. Then when you finally do engage on here, it's either useless/lack of information or comes across as hostile when paying customers voice their concern. Yet, here we all are to do it again this year......

It's a lot more than a handful of guys. Regardless, when we have news on matchmaking, we'll make an announcement.

Maybe its time to hire a few more people for the dev teams, as it looks like they can‘t handle so much with just a handful (?) of guys.

100%! There was absolutely Z E R O reason to change that!!

Yes, exactly. We were waiting for this for years now……

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.

This update will not help in anyway fixing the serious issues and bugs this game has, on the contrary. So thanks, but no thanks. 

Again, this update has been in development for a long time. It has not taken away from working to improve matchmaking.

EA_Aljo wrote:

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. 

Again, we are very well aware of the feedback surrounding this and are always looking to improve matchmaking. That's all the information I have currently.