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Appreciate the insight brotha and yeah, to clarify, we played 60+ games in Club finals alone. Prior to club finals, I think our record was a modest like 55-25 with a couple OT Ls or something. So 60+ club final games, 2 banners, to go along with 80+ normal club games, and I wanna say our club level is like 47 or something non prestige. Idk man, for 3 people all in their mid 20s with careers, we can only play so much. All these games were played from roughly end of January to now, so roughly 150 games in a month and half span. Compared to grinders that aint nothing but I would say thats quite a lot compared to the average amount for most clubs played in that time.
Just extremely disheartening that we essentially have no chance of getting any decent stadium drip. What a way to really encourage casual players to not want to keep playing. I get there needs to be some sort of exclusivity to certain drops but man, 150+ games played (total with club finals), won elite club finals twice (very aware this is something impressive feat compared to the top teams but still), in div 1 and we dont have a single piece of actual cool stadium drip???
Last thing I'll say is, complete anecdote, we ran into a team of 3 silvers who had both the glow sticks for fans, on ice light spotlights, + some sort of galaxy pregrame light show thing......... we were up like 5-0 in the first period and they raged. So it truly seems like those sort of drops are completely random which is just absurd
All games have minor issues here and there but with NHL they've just compounded and snowballed over the course of a decade into something almost eldritch. I used to be part of the hero program/mod team and can certainly say the higher ups just don't care - I don't know how many times I was ignored (after actually providing constructive feedback) before I was forced to "raise my voice" a bit and here we are now.
I don't see systems getting any better until at least a new gen version.
Well, ranks mean absolutely nothing now because of how they reset after each playoffs - Told them years ago it would lead to artificial "smurfing" and was just ignored. Playerbase is so low and nothing makes any sense right now so even a single loss could set a really good team who doesn't play often back to silver and gold; glowsticks might have a slight bit of randomness as drops (I think they sort of follow the same suit as arenas themselves), but i'm guess you played a team with a ton of players or they came into bad luck during their 10 game evaluation.
Not knocking any of your feats - I too believe players should be rewarded for their effort, not just time. I loved receiving a banner each month and forcing the other team to watch (and hopefully capping it off with a win) and wish they'd bring it back.
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