Scoring

Once again with the video clips?  Waste of my time when it’s so obvious to anyone that plays the game consistently who will see all the goals caused by these unnecessary animations.

Video clips are the best way to bring about change. This is an incredibly dynamic game. We can't just be told something happened and reproduce it. There are a lot of other details normally and a lot of people aren't going to recognize those. Our developers can watch a clip and have a general idea of what the issue is. That also doesn't mean it's easy to fix though.

Doese EA need video clips (proof) of sticks going through players, the boards etc?  No.  Why?  Because it’s so obvious to anyone that has been playing the game for years and video clips aren’t needed. 

We don't need clips of the stick going through the boards. As has been said many times, that is intended. Unfortunately, we're not at a point where players will perfectly avoid objects with their stick. Currently, we would see more issues if we didn't allow the stick to pass through objects/players at specific times. Again, video helps a ton. This is why it's so heavily requested.

Keep defending EA and its many glaring mistakes and all the other problems with this game.  The majority of the people that play this game know the truth.  

The majority of people playing this game don't post on the forums. It's a very small percentage of the playerbase that does. I'm not saying everyone outside the forums thinks the game is perfect though.

We've never said everything is working as intended. We would love for there to be no issues. It would be amazing if that were the case. The reality is that there are bound to be bugs, glitches, animations that don't always line up or wrong animations playing, etc. Hockey is incredibly complex. It's pretty much impossible to perfectly replicate this sport in a video game. It has it's issues. It also still provides a very competitive and fun game for many of us. People are entitled to defend it just as they are to be negative about it. Especially when we frequently see people blaming the game when it's more about how they're actually playing. Again, the game isn't perfect, but neither are humans. We all make mistakes. This is a hyper-competitive community though and not everyone is going to be accountable for them. Video tells us when an issue is legitimate or if it's human error. We're obviously no strangers to our own mistakes here. I'm not saying there's no fault on our end either and we want to be accountable for those. I have said many times over the years here when something's an issue on our end.

thebrazenhead75 wrote:

Anyone that plays this game can easily notice way LESS people playing G.  Drop ins are one example.  It takes me longer now to find games because I’m backing out of lobbies that don’t have a human goalie.  More CLUBS are running games without a goalie.  Anyone that plays this game daily during peak hours will notice and agree.

That doesn't make sense. Lots of people play all modes in this game and aren't tracking the popularity of goalie. You may pay particularly close attention, but again - you are only playing drop-ins. Playing drop-ins is not something elite, league-level goalies are doing. 

How would you know how many clubs are running goalies compared to those without if you're not steeped in club games multiple days a week?

thebrazenhead75 wrote:

Once again with the video clips?  Waste of my time when it’s so obvious to anyone that plays the game consistently who will see all the goals caused by these unnecessary animations.  

Providing a simple video clip of what you deem an "unnecessary animation" would give the developers the exact insight they'd need in order to fix the issue you have. Why keep refusing to do that? 

thebrazenhead75 wrote:

That’s the #1 reason people are complaining about in game and on social media platforms.

The #1 reason why people complain on social media is because they get 'likes', 'retweets' and generally positive affirmations from like-minded, social media addicted users who have disdain for the game. Conflating social media interactions with general consensus is a recipe for being incredibly misinformed. Not just in the context of video games, but as a whole; social media incentivises the cesspool of human emotions. Never use it as a metric for anything.

Plus, algorithms keep you locked in echo-chambers. So, if you spend a lot of time discussing the game and how bad it is - the social media gods will ensure you're locked in an environment where that opinion is praised. They want you to keep coming back 

thebrazenhead75 wrote:

 Doese EA need video clips (proof) of sticks going through players, the boards etc?  No.  Why?  Because it’s so obvious to anyone that has been playing the game for years and video clips aren’t needed. 

Providing clips is not just for the development team. Often times, clips can showcase human error which can then be resolved; resulting in a player getting better outcomes in their games because they provided a clip where they were making a mistake.

In the context of sticks through players, boards and subsequent interactions with the puck - the clips posted on the old forums and the developer interaction and explanations led a lot of us to get a much better understanding of the mechanics at play and the logic being used to present those mechanics in a nuanced and balanced way. I use to LOVE those developer interactions.. but I digress...

thebrazenhead75 wrote:

Anyone doesn’t need to know anything about goalie controls to know how idiotic removing one tool while duplicating another is.  I don’t know enough about bathroom renovations but I know how completely IDIOTIC it would be to remove a toilet paper holder with another soap dish.  If I hired someone to renovate my bathroom and they did that then I would immediately fire them.  The only reason I can think of why nobody at EA has responded to this is because they don’t want to admit to such an idiotic mistake.

I don't use the paddle-down mechanic but that likely says more about my goalie skill than anything. That said, are you sure there are two buttons in the goalie controls that do the same desperation save? My understanding is one would be for stacked pad save, the other for blocker/glove desperation save, but I could be wrong.

In any case, regardless of the duplication of the desperation save mechanic and the omission of paddle down - there are a lot of goalies (yourself included) that are having a lot of success playing goalie in NHL 25. As someone who plays on a club who strictly uses a human goalie, we have not noticed at all a decline in human goalies. Looking at leaderboards, there are a lot of very skilled tendies out there.

thebrazenhead75 wrote:

Keep defending EA and its many glaring mistakes and all the other problems with this game.  The majority of the people that play this game know the truth.  

I am not "defending" EA because that implies you are attacking them, which I'm sure you're not meaning to do. 

I would absolutely love to see some examples of the "unnecessary animations". It would really go such a long way in helping identify the issues. I think you'd love to contribute to the betterment of the game, no?

thebrazenhead75 wrote:

I NEVER said I was playing “amazing”.  Don’t use words that I didn’t use!

My apologies for using the term 'amazing'. You're right, you did not use that exact terminology but in my defence, an accurate summarization of your description of yourself goaltending would include the word amazing, but again.. not a direct quote. My bad.