Was considering buying…changed my mind

I decided to download the free trial on PS5. The new be a pro career mode is flashier and maybe a little more in depth.  Enjoyed starting with the World Junior knockout rounds, that was fun. The game play is actually, in my opinion, a little better than NHL 25. I was actually considering buying the game. Then it happened…

Completed my first Memorial Cup game, clicked on “Finish Game” and now my screen is stuck on black screen with “cleaning the ice” in the corner. This was a huge issue on NHL 25, to the point that I was manually saving after every game to make sure I had a backup save in case the game freeze happened between periods or at the end of the game. 

I guess, as usual, EA isn’t interested in actually fixing game breaking bugs, just making the game look nice and shiny but leaving it a broken mess. Such a joke. Time for the NHL, and all the other sports franchises that EA has, to move them to a new dev that actually cares about making a game that works.