GM is great in theory, but no one plays it. The leagues dont finish.
The game has significant upgrades every year. Animations, gameplay, skating, hitting, new game modes, new goalie animations. The game every year has roughly the same amount of updates and gets better every single year. " If you dont think the game has improved go play 20 or 19 or 16 when the jump for the new consoles occurred.
Ive been coming to the forum since before 2008 and these exact threads are started.
BE a PRO bugs or CHEL STAT bugs? Everyday EA watches the forums were they made aware of that?
You can play NHL on the cloud on your PC. ping is great.
To me this thread is a me me post. Every other week we get posts like this. Hockey is hockey, you dont need GM connected to make it better. All that will happen is the league will be filled with three quarter AI teams, scheduling to play other players will be a pain and the leagues just wont work.
like omg "Why not give us actual sliders for our players' faces and features? "
this has absolutely nothing to do with GAME PLAY,
The players could look like blades of steel players with the same gameplay we have today, who cares hockey is hockey.
You need to look into why the leagues didn't finish. Once you played a season or two, you got tired of the absurdly long simulation times, and bugs. There are many connected franchise leagues across the other ea titles that are thriving in its current modern state.
I've been posting on these forums since NHL12's heydey and I have to say, your reply is pretty unfathomable to me.
Perhaps the MOST UNFATHOMABLE thing you said was: "Hockey is hockey, you don't need GM Connected to make it better." I don't understand your point with this. It's quite clear that some subset of the player base wants an online franchise mode so that they can, ya know, play franchise mode with their friends/other people. The thing you're failing to grasp is that the NHL series' "gameplay" isn't only about what happens on the ice. "Gameplay" also includes managing your lines, making trades, drafting players, etc. If we follow your logic, then EA shouldn't offer anything other than offline 1v1 play. Hockey is hockey, right? You don't need to play against other players. Thank the lord the devs don't have your mentality otherwise, we would have never gotten EASHL, Be a Pro, etc in the first place.
Another quote from you: "BE a PRO bugs or CHEL STAT bugs? Every day EA watches the forums were they made aware of that?" The answer: Yes. Yes, they were. They either didn't think it was worth it to debug these issues or they couldn't. What's your point?
To argue that the game gets "significant upgrades" every year is wild. It's a subjective thing, sure, but what were the significant upgrades to NHL23 that we got in NHL24? The "pressure system?" The feature that was severely undercooked for months and had to be severely nerfed to make fans happy? Wow. What a "significant upgrade."
The last thing I'll say is that you made a strawman argument about "going back to NHL16 if you don't think the game has improved." No one is arguing that the game hasn't changed over 8 years lol. Also, a lot of people feel like the game was better during the NHL20 iteration. So there's that, too.
I get that you're happy with the bare minimum. That's great. Others see the potential that this series has and just wish it would reach at least a small part of that potential.
Trading to make tweaks to my team and accrue draft pick sis actually one of my favourite parts of the Franchise experience. I love wheeling and dealing, seeing what I can get to improve my team. My trade deadline, I actually do the trades a couple "days" before the deadline so I don't feel rushed during the trade deadline date. After that the season is boring until playoffs, as I hate having to wait to do more trading, lol. We all have our things we enjoy about it. If a player doesn't seem to mesh well, I don't hesitate to ship them out.
