Is it time to hang your skates up?
It’s been a month. I’m still not impressed. This years rewards are so bad it makes the game just not worth playing. The game play itself so bad that the calmest player’s blood pressure sure to shoot out the arena roof. The AI of your teammates is just bad. Positioning? What’s that. Cover the opposing player in front of your net? Nope. Just skates away from the play. That’s if he doesn’t just stand there watching it instead. Or my personal favorite. Your defenseman is skating out of the zone for a breakaway pass.
Is playing the game worth the rewards you get? Nope. Cup Chase is just a joke. 22 games for like 7 crappy cards. Wow. So mind numbingly boring to play. It’s not just the low coins for objectives or the games you play. How about those reward packs. So full of cards that you could create any event card with plenty to spare for the next event. Oh sorry must be the concussion from banging my head on the wall talking. We’re getting less than half of last year and having to play almost as many games. It’s ridiculous.
How about that gameplay? Your teammates lack of IQ and their inability to cover the front of your net, their horrible positioning on the ice, their inability to make proper line changes. I could go on but why bother. Poke check anyone? No seriously where the hell did that ability go to? The fact that your stick can literally pass right through your opponent’s stick and nothing happens in mind boggling. Or you just swing past the puck and the other team just keeps skating right past you. Your players stopping to receive a pass. Because every amazing nhl player does that. The gameplay sucks.
The new salary cap. Who asked for a salary cap? Why do we need one? It’s called Ultimate team people. Means build a team of greats. Greats aren’t as cheap as you EA. Needs to go away. That whole system needs a rework. Ask your community what they think.
The blatant way this game is trying to force you to buy packs. In all the years I’ve played I have only spent real money on packs when I have had an extra few bucks on a gift card to spend. This years game the packs are so over priced it’s ridiculous. Most people have a budget in life. Usually that budget is blown when you’ve bought the game. So trying to force us to spend more on imaginary cards is a scam and slap in the face. If people want to spend more money hey go ahead. I don’t judge. But I don’t like that pushed on me either.
This game is just bad. I have so much more to say but why bother. Nobody is listening. Certainly not EA. Did they try to fix an embarrassing Fantasy event? Sure? A little bit. But people is it enough? The broken XP path of single card rewards? Overpriced packs. Unbalanced HUT moments. The joke of a poke check ability. Unbalanced goal tending. Cup Chase the worst mode ever in this game.. Why aren’t more people speaking up? I’m sad to say this is probably my last season. If the next season is not a huge improvement it’s over. The final horn will sound.
