Why is it "players should lower their expectations" and not "EA should lower the price"??
Huh? That's just straight-up illogical. Why would they lower the price of a AAA sports game? You may not have realized that video game pricing, especially at the AAA level, is pretty much a convention. The only thing that would cause EA to lower the price of one of their sports games is if a minuscule number of people purchase the game at launch. In that case, they might discount it heavily.
Lowering your expectations seems like the obvious thing to do after so many years of minor innovation and failure to meet the community's vocal expectations. Do you know what my expectations are? "A hockey video game that allows me to play against other players in 1v1 online versus play." That's it. I don't expect much else at this point.
