Releasing an unfinished product NHL 27

For example do you know what would be sick I don’t know being a Commisioner of your own league approving trades etc maybe that’s something you could integrate into connected franchise to allow bots a person who is the commissioner and deputy commissioner who votes on cpu trades to make it fair like be creative we shouldn’t have to tell you what needs to be in this game to make it good you should be able to have staff and management teams that know what has to be in the game to make it good yes community feedback is one thing but if that’s all your gonna change is when we tell you to then wow that’s bad  

I get the frustration. It's fair to be disappointed that Connected Franchise doesn't have features like player progression, drafts, or aging right away. At the same time, I think ideas like commissioner tools, trade approvals, and league management are the kind of feedback that could really help shape where the mode goes. Hopefully this is just the starting point and EA continues to build on it instead of leaving it as is

I think I started reading something that you can be a commissioner in connected franchise could be miscommunication in the trailer but if that’s the case why not have an option to turn on the allow CPU trading but Commisioner has to approve it’s in franchise mode allow cpu trades it’s an option don’t know why it can’t be an option to turn on and off in this mode I don’t have 31 friends that play this game I got 2 a 3 person league with no progression yeah that will be not fun once so ever lmao 

There will be plenty of discord ran leagues.

That's actually not a bad idea. Having an optional setting for CPU trades with commissioner approval could work well for smaller leagues. I still hope they add progression and the other franchise features over time, but options like that would definitely help.

Are you going to buy the game every year? Yes

Do they need to do anything different to get your money? no

You vote no on forums but you vote yes with your wallet.  Money is all that matters. 

That's true to an extent. At the same time, people can enjoy the series and still expect improvements. Buying the game doesn't mean every decision is above criticism.

This is the thing. We complain year after an year, but still buy the unfinished lefthand made game each year.

I understand what you are saying but this isnt a perfect world.  

And im not implying you lose your right to complain just because you continue to support a predatory product.   Predatory in that they fully understand that a yearly release model is dated and not consumer friendly, but choose to do so anyways to profit off it. 

The thing is, as much as devs may share our frustrations, they can only do so much when a large company like EA establishes the guidelines, the budget, etc.  The devs may look at what you want but the execs look at dollar figures in a spreadsheet or powerpoint presentation.   Thats just how big companies work. And then they opt to do what seems to be the best thing to increase profits. 

So the more you continue to pay, the more incentivized they are to continue with a similar model.  So you are in effect fighting against yourself by continuing to pay them for a product that frustrates you.   And the core issue is and always has been the yearly release model which limits how much they can do. 

Yearly model means: 

-You have to sell the game, so you need new shiny things to advertize or people wont buy it. 

-Implementation of new and shiny things takes time away from fixing or reworking core, boring mechanics like TPS(properly) and so on.  You just cant do everything in one year

If you have dealt with software creation/maintenance projects, you quickly realize how little time one year is to do everything (concepts, requirements, dependencies, costs, effort (time it will take to implement), testing, more testing, bug fixes, and whatever else may be involved in game making).  Its honestly impressive how much they seem to be able to implement in one year but its also nowhere near $80 value and its also bound to come at the cost of unfinished, unpolished, buggy outcomes

So you can complain yes, but as long as you dont fight your impulses and keep buying, you are essentially a crack addict begging for money and who will accept any minor gestures for his next fix. Nobody is giving the house away when they can give crumbs.  So enjoy the crumbs I guess. 

Now if people stopped buying, 1 of 2 things would happen. 

EA Execs would have to decide to either go back to the drawing board about its now failing model and invest in something better.   Or abandon the product and cut their losses.  Either of these is good for us long term (bad short term).  We temporarily lose the game for a few years while either a better product is implemented by EA, or a different industry publisher entering the NHL space now that the market is opened. 

So its your choice but you also only really have one person to blame and its not EA. 

As others have mentioned, with a yearly dev cycle there's no reasonable way they'd be able to produce a feature complete modern version of GM connected.  If they stick to it, work with the community and add features over time it will probably end up in a decent spot.  Even if that's two or three years away.

That said, EA really dropped the ball on messaging.  They had to know that as soon as people saw "connected franchise" they'd jump to the conclusion of a fully featured GMC replacement.  There should have been an official blog launched with the trailer that would explain exactly what CF is in NHL 27 and what it isn't.

From what I can tell, what we're getting in NHL 27 is a more polished version of the Versus League mode the game had back around NHL 09/10.