Does anyone else feel it's over the franchise is going to keep going downhill

Yeah, definitely a lot of people feel the same way. Like I wrote on the forum recently — here’s the thought:

Why doesn’t the NHL community around the world come together and start putting pressure on EA? Just like players have done with other games — and it actually worked there. Here, we just vent our frustration on forums and that’s it. EA just smiles, and next year we get another roster update, new jerseys, hats, jackets, and that’s all.

The quality keeps going down.