Worst start

Sitting out here on deployment looking to see what is new in the game.. if you've been in the forums long enough you probably remember me. I've shared a lot of my frustrations posted very long and detailed threads about how I would fix gameplay issues, X factors, goalies, player builder, the store, a story mode for WoC, etc. I've made threads about the direction of the series and highlighted how small of changes this dev team have come out with in each year.. I contemplated just building upon that.. the first game it was something like "oh we just took over, we did not have much time" the next year "look, we are working on multi-year projects, we don't want to rush anything, we want to do it right so this year there isn't much" (and I was actually excited to hear that at the time) but then another year with almost nothing.. and another.. now we have this connected season mode, something that seems any development team could have put together in just a couple days.. even the biggest fans, supporters, and defenders of this title are finally at a loss for words.. I mean what are we doing here? Looking at ANY thread on X outside of something nealer posts is EXTREMELY negative. The dev team has been silent since they took over.. nothing to share, no open communication,  we just get whatever little they decide to give and want the same money a fully staffed team is getting after working for several years on a title and then they litter it with micro transactions like it's any other AAA title. What are the long term plans here? Maybe I'm mistaken but this studio seems like one of those famous Minnesota day care centers laundering money and just throwing something on the back of the box to keep the execs from looking and people buying.

Typically this time of year is when most people are at least hopeful. Maybe not always super optimistic (some were) but hopeful. Now it's not excitement, its not optimism, its not hopeful, it's just dissapointment. No way to help improve it, no way to discuss the future or hear from the devs. No way to get a good game. now I see people saying "it sucks but I'll still buy it." This must be the worst start to the countdown to release I have EVER seen. Connected franchise is probably the most bare bones mode I've ever seen in any game. Crazy that they felt comfortable unveiling that, knowing full well how poorly it would be recieved and how little they care about that.