@johum2886 Imagine being a selke trophy winner and not ever playing on the PK lol… Be a Pro was way better before they changed it to what it is now…
Old Be a Pro: played in Juniors for a (few) season(s) until you were draft age.. then got drafted based on how you played… you were rewarded for your efforts.. you proved you were good enough to be drafted in the first round.. or top 10..
Or maybe you struggled.. maybe your second junior season wasn’t as good as your first.. maybe you fell to the second round.. or third.. or even further.. but a team still took a chance and picked you..
Now you have your opportunity to prove yourself.. work hard in the preseason.. but you’re not going to bump players like Pastrnak, Matthews, Scheifle, etc down a line.. that’s ridiculous.. maybe you’ll make the 3rd or 4th line.. or get sent back to the juniors.. until you can show you are NHL ready…
You get injured and it tells you what happened, and how long you’ll be out for.. a teammate gets injured and you’re given an update on them too..
New Be a Pro: you play 4ish games.. score 1 goal, and you get picked first overall, by the same team each time… you get thrown into the NHL as a 70ovr player.. you bump players from the first line like Pastrnak, Kane, Stone, Panarin, etc… each season your team is blown up and roster is completely different… you have teams that are 20M over the salary cap.. teams that are 20M under the salary floor.. nothing makes sense… and then you’re awarded the C immediately.. stripped it from a leader and given to a nobody..
you win the Selke despite never playing on the PK.. you get challenges from your coach.. you meet the requirements but still somehow fail..
you get injured but have no idea what happened and how long you’ll be out for…
You get called a rookie and are in the running for the Calder trophy every year… even with 300+ games under your belt..
The old Be a Pro wasn’t perfect by any means.. but the biggest issue.. was being sent down because you simmed games.. if you simmed games the coach would demote you lines/send you down.. even with the sim line penalty option OFF.. that really was the biggest issue…
If EA reverted Be a Pro back to the old version.. but kept the X factors, conversations&challenges, (if they worked properly, which they don’t) and line scores (if they worked properly.. which they don’t lol) then Be a Pro would be great.. also kept small things like request trade.. interviews etc… but everything else was the old Be a Pro.. much more realistic and immersive.. a lot less gimmicky and hand holding…