The most recent tuner has ruined the gameplay. As usual.
The speed of the gameplay is back to hyper super sonic. Nonsense. The slower, realistic speed at release was such a huge step forward toward the game feeling like real hockey. Now we're back to over-the-top, crazy waterbug hockey where everyone flies all over the ice, players essentially ignore collision, and the puck is magnetized to the puck carrier no matter how often they are bumped or poke checked by multiple players. Fun!! *rolls eyes*
Why do you ruin the game every year by rewinding it to the awful, horrendous gameplay the majority of players hated? To appease the alleged "influencers", who bring little to nothing to the table? Do their few thousand views REALLY help sell your product to people who like hockey? People watching them either already have the game or aren't buying it anwyay, because they are living vicariously through these whining crybabies who can't stand it when the game is skill-based and actually plays closer to... and get this... actual hockey.
Stop screwing with the majority's game for the sake of the minority that you seem to think have all this sway. They don't. Ever talk to the people in game chat who play NHL? Almost every one of them finds those pathetic whiny "influencers" to be narcissistic, annoying, and out of touch with actual hockey and hockey fans. We don't watch them. We don't care what they say or think. We know they don't represent what true hockey fans want in a hockey simulation game, which is what you CLAIM this is supposed to be. That's a fact.
Get your priorities in order. Listen to the majority. Not the few alleged "influencers" to whom you cater for some unknown reason. We, the larger community who plays your game and pays to do so, think those are the worst kind of gamers and are far less hardcore fans of actual hockey than the rest of us are.
So ask yourself this: Who is our target market? Hockey fans who want to play a quality hockey simulation (or as close as we can get)? Or toxic, whiny gamers who want all the exploits back in the game so they don't have to adapt to playing a better gaming, hockey experience?
I think we all know the answer already, unfortunately.
It was a good couple of weeks and very fun while it lasted. Someone let me know when they fix it. I kid! I kid! You and I both know they never will! Because glitchy, exploit, superspeed unrealistic hockey is what sells!!! Wheeeeeeee!
Maybe I'll check back into the game in a few weeks, though. Or not. The sour taste of this happening every year gets harder and harder to swallow.
I guess the biggest question is this;
Why bother doing all that revamping and programming and coding and changing of things over the development span, if you're just going to "patch" it back to where it was before? Doesn't your development team feel a bit betrayed and frustrated by all the good work they did over that timeframe to make the game better and improving the realism being completely undone in a matter of a week? I know I would be.
Anyone disagree? If so, I'd love to hear what part(s) and why.
And if you do agree, make your voice known here. We need to show the team that we are the majority, not the alleged "influencers" to whom they pander. Speak up, real hockey fans!
