Hockey Ultimate Team is no longer your Ultimate Team
Would love to hear EA_Aljo thoughts on this one, and I don't want a response of "Go play online VS" or "HUT is a microtransaction game mode"...
What is the definition of Hockey ULTIMATE Team? Is it my ultimate team, or the team that EA want you to build? This isn't EA Ultimate Team. They don't name my team, they don't control my controller, but they control my players cause there's only so much you can do with what they have provided. So why do I have to go and get TOTY in order to fit a salary cap? Honestly nothing will change from this post and I get that. Feedback isn't being passed along, as long as the whales (Who I can beat with a team full of ranked rewards 90 and below) drop money on this game it won't matter.
This game requires you to play moments (Most of the time not using the "Ultimate" team you create).
The objectives? Yea don't want to use those guys either. Only get to pick from the 10 players released every 2 weeks? No I am good. Don't feel like playing on rookie just to grind for these guys and get OBJs done with you guessed it, not MY ULTIMATE team.
I would prefer a game where you complete objectives, get coins, and buy (mostly) whatever you want. Instead it's just more and more paywall junk really. I get TOTY is a big even and therefore a big money maker, but what a fumble. You used to be able to get event cards throughout the year and make TOTY at least 1 or 2. Now Chara, Roenick, etc. behind a paywall. YUCK.
In terms of gameplay, HUT champs should be played on a neutral rink. None of this random trash that is international RAG ice. You can't claim a game is competitive and a 50/50 home/away comes up and you got to play on a different ice surface half the time.
The full pressure system has to go. It is pure RNG with how some pucks bounce and some of the players here rely so heavily on getting it to full pressure. My goalie shouldn't be losing health when they take 3 low quality shots.
Sick of the players skating into AI and they have zero awareness. If you look outside of this forum on things like redit, you will see the true state of this game. But, in the end this post won't mean much but feels good to get it off my chest. I won't be preordering the game next year, and maybe I'll wait for the black friday sale. I am done buying beta ICEQ games for the last however many years till you show that you care about the people who buy the game, cause buying the game is not FREE TO PLAY.
