We Need Communication From Devs

26 is a horrible game if you want to play online, the game feels half finished, devs nerfed defense to make their new X Factors stand out ,just like they nerfed the puck flip so   their new pressure system would work as they intended too ,and the game has almost no penalties oh there is now a Salary cap in HUT ,so the Devs are basically telling you how to build your team 

25 was bad and its far better than 26

NHL alumni jerseys for La Kings need updating.  Have played Chel since the 90’s. This game is the worst game that has ever been released by EA sports. You should change the engine away from the FPS (first person shooter) engine you are currently using because this is down right embarrassing. It’s not working! 

The current team doesn't believe in patching the game, they would rather knock out a couple big issues then leave it for next year. What ends up happening is the stuff leftover shows up in the next game on top of the new bugs they introduce. The past teams would've spent the time to fix something like line changes in 25 even if it would've taken 6-7 months. The current team left in the wrap glitch in 23 and had barely any changes with the excuse of making the next game "better", look how that turned out.

Just wanted to touch base on the configuration errors it’s only happening in drop-in 6’s. We have had to restart the lobbies more often than not. Terryoh and others had this problem too. 

Thanks for the reply.

How is matchmaking broken for you? 

• When searching a game with full squad. You can get opponent who have bots in their team.
• Still we got error codes
• Game just cant find opponent and yes 110% sure that others searching too. We have also passwords in Europe what we use. Reboot helps.

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How many big updates did EA release for NHL25? Like 2 or 3 ? 
Im just trying to say that EA doesnt update the game very often. Most of the updates are very small.

In any case i think resources could be use more wisely. And when you add something new to the game that changes it significantly maybe it would be a good idea to ask the community for their opinion.

And like i said you clearly have a very small team working on this game and devs are very busy so please stop creating unnecessary extra things to the game. By this i mean all cosmetics (hats, mask etc) and background stuffs.. Im pretty sure that most of us in the community want fully working and realistic hockey game instead of silly hats.

We had patches for the first several months of 25. Chances are good there are going to be multiple patches for 26. Unfortunately, we can't just fix everything everyone is asking for within the first few weeks after the game launches. These issues also aren't exactly the quick and easy fixes. They take time to reproduce, develop a resolution, test and balance each one, then release it. Unless something is critical that is causing the game not to be able to be played, we're not going to release a one off patch to fix something. Patches normally cover a collection of issues.

When I say something is being investigated, that's what's happening. There is no ETA for fixing every issue. We have to reproduce it first and then figure out what's causing it. So, when someone says how long is it going to take to fix something, we can't estimate that. A good example is the current crashing issue with some Xbox players. We haven't been able to reproduce that so we can't say when it's going to be addressed.

We will make an announcement a patch is coming normally the day before. We don't do this sooner because it's not unusual to have an update delayed at the last minute. Rather than disappoint everyone by not releasing an announced update, we wait until we're sure it's happening before saying so.

How is matchmaking broken for you? I don't see that many reports on it not working. My own club has had no problems finding matches. That doesn't mean it's perfectly working, but I'm curious. And let's be clear, not having the filter for matching room size doesn't mean matchmaking is broken.

Why are you using your limited resources on things that no one has complained about? 
And very important issues that are constantly being complained about, such as penalties have still not been fixed. 

Very little has been fixed because we haven't released the first big update yet.

I know EA_Aljo​  that you are in a very difficult situation and you have to deal with a lot of angry comments. 
BUT
If players are angry and demanding changes to the game, maybe something should be done about it? 
Perhaps players are just tired of your answers often being the same: "We are aware of the issue..." "its under investigation" but nothing happens? no updates? I understand that you are just delivering messages so its not my intention to blame you. Just saying.

A normal gaming company fixes the bugs and problems that players complain about. Especially things that are critical and really important.

Same thing happens every single year.  Last year we were waiting updates, then devs published new matchmaking. And that is still broken. 

You obviously have a very small team working on the NHL game.
I would like to ask the game director one question:
Why are you using your limited resources on things that no one has complained about? 
And very important issues that are constantly being complained about, such as penalties have still not been fixed. 

I could even bet that this penalty issue wont be fixed.

Sorry to say this.. i dont want to be mean but i really dont have much faith in the team developing this game anymore.
Perhaps the team needs new leadership or something. The game isnt really progressing anymore.

The changes have nothing to do with correcting problems. The changes are just enhancements on factors that are currently present in the game. One example of non compliance. Last year the ability to multi select was working. It then went down. Was it ever corrected? It wasn't. This is a minor detail. But when all the minor details add up. The problem becomes a growing trend. And all the videos sent in, still don't rectify the growing problems.

If you are consistently getting errors, get some video so we can try to reproduce them.

As far as communication goes, I don't know if that will change. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of constructive communication directed at the devs so I can see why they'd be hesitant to open that up. There's a high amount of feedback I can't even relay due to the hate that comes through here. I absolutely understand that people can get very passionate about the game. I have that too, but if it's not kept in check, it turns into ranting. That's largely non-constructive so those comments don't really get in front of the devs. It would probably make a bigger difference if people kept their cool when letting us know how they feel. You can still get the point across that you're unhappy with the game by detailing the issues and avoiding the hateful comments.