It’s not even 3 weeks since release of the game and you already can’t find clubs to play in 6v6 EASHL… Spend two hours in the locker room searching for a club game, to inevitability get annoyed enough for our team to just to begrudgingly switch to 3v3 Drop-ins just to be able to play a game.It’s like we’re already in the low pop summer months when it’s harder to find a game, except it’s October and there’s already virtually no clubs playing on PS5…What a sad state.

Why the silence on this subject? Is it simply that their hands are tied? If there was one thing that NHL needed more than anything, it was cross-play. The fact that instead the population was split 4 ways is a huge mistake, and something that should be rectified. Everyone at EA Sports NHL should be working on this, admitting the mistake and apologizing...Instead it is silence.They will never grow the game by frustrating their hard-core players to the point that they will not recommend the game to anyone.

It's really too bad that the only response from EA to this thread doesn't even touch on the issue that this topic is supposed to discuss...Still feel like this issue is being avoided.

I tried giving NHL another shot on next gen for eashl but sad to say the situation with eashl is no better than when I left after nhl15. I don't play offline or hut, me and 4-5 friends used to enjoy the hell out of eashl/OTP/club until EA decided to weed us out in favour of their loyal hut players who they can milk all year for card packs and money. The biggest aspect of community in this game has been dead for years, it is sad that micro transactions prop up this game model simply because studios profit more that way. I tried doing my part not buying their titles over the years but I'm sure they made more money without us eashl players anyways.

@EA_Aljo sorry aljo but hes right your moto as been HUT HUT HUT and DIVIDE DIVIDE DIVIDE . you guys will have to put the game free next week if we hope to have enough players. its frustrating , we cant find a full lobby anymore , we start a game a few players missing already and after 5min half the lobby quits and you play against LGENDARY TYPE CPU. by the way you guys could tune them down a lot .

@EA_Aljo I really enjoyed nhl11-14 for eashl and club, I forget when the preset builds and attribute caps came in but that's when you started losing touch with a large portion of the community. I get the grind for legend 3 was way too much for the XP side of things for the average players time schedule so I'm not complaining on that front that we don't have to grind for XP anymore. Taking away the customisation and personal tweaking of all stats took a lot of the uniqueness out of the mode. Reintroducing that in a limited capacity is an improvement and step in the right direction. I would say give us the old boost system of 9 slots and let us unlock those as we level up instead of these x factors that most of them seem like a gimmick or useless anyways in all honesty, I only pick ones that make my shooting better as the rest seem so situational. None of the skating physic updates since 11 have really felt like much of an improvement or leap forward imo while the rest of our pros abilities have slowly been nerfed into the ground via attribute caps and tuner updates in that direction to make us feel like highschool level hockey players shooting and passing wise. I miss vision control actually making you follow the puck/puck carrier. I miss when you actually felt like an NHL caliber player in this mode and scoring was more prolific and dazzling as apposed to half the garbage that bounces its way into the net these days. Dekeing used to be an art and now you can hardly shoot the puck if you pick the one build capable of doing loose puck dekes successfully most of the time. Eashl used to feel like the base game as far as presets and tuner sliders go back in the day and now it feels like I'm out there playing with my real life ability instead of an NHL level player. I could actually live with 22 if it got a few decent tweaks for eashl in the right direction but in the long run I would say there's a lot to do before you guys ever come close to getting anywhere near what nhl11-14 provided as far as eashl is concerned.

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36 Replies

SparkOfSanity
4 years ago
Why the silence on this subject? Is it simply that their hands are tied?
If there was one thing that NHL needed more than anything, it was cross-play. The fact that instead the population was split 4 ways is a huge mistake, and something that should be rectified.
Everyone at EA Sports NHL should be working on this, admitting the mistake and apologizing...Instead it is silence.
They will never grow the game by frustrating their hard-core players to the point that they will not recommend the game to anyone.
honestbleeps
4 years ago
yup. I've never once seen the population read anything other than "low"
they really need to sort out cross-play. At the very least, let PS5/XSX and XBO/PS4 users play each other assuming the game engines are closer?
TTZ_Dipsy
Hero+
4 years ago
We'll most likely get proper cross-play next year (at least, I hope we do). As soon as they announced we'd be splitting up four ways, it was clear things were gonna be rough
BabyPuncher525
Rising Vanguard
4 years ago
I tried giving NHL another shot on next gen for eashl but sad to say the situation with eashl is no better than when I left after nhl15. I don't play offline or hut, me and 4-5 friends used to enjoy the hell out of eashl/OTP/club until EA decided to weed us out in favour of their loyal hut players who they can milk all year for card packs and money. The biggest aspect of community in this game has been dead for years, it is sad that micro transactions prop up this game model simply because studios profit more that way. I tried doing my part not buying their titles over the years but I'm sure they made more money without us eashl players anyways.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
4 years ago
@BabyPuncher525

EASHL received some of the biggest changes in years based on community feedback. It's an extremely popular mode and receives a lot of attention. What did you like better about NHL 15 over 22?
RouleauAuFruit
New Scout
4 years ago
@EA_Aljo sorry aljo but hes right your moto as been HUT HUT HUT and DIVIDE DIVIDE DIVIDE . you guys will have to put the game free next week if we hope to have enough players. its frustrating , we cant find a full lobby anymore , we start a game a few players missing already and after 5min half the lobby quits and you play against LGENDARY TYPE CPU. by the way you guys could tune them down a lot .
BabyPuncher525
Rising Vanguard
4 years ago
@EA_Aljo I really enjoyed nhl11-14 for eashl and club, I forget when the preset builds and attribute caps came in but that's when you started losing touch with a large portion of the community. I get the grind for legend 3 was way too much for the XP side of things for the average players time schedule so I'm not complaining on that front that we don't have to grind for XP anymore. Taking away the customisation and personal tweaking of all stats took a lot of the uniqueness out of the mode. Reintroducing that in a limited capacity is an improvement and step in the right direction. I would say give us the old boost system of 9 slots and let us unlock those as we level up instead of these x factors that most of them seem like a gimmick or useless anyways in all honesty, I only pick ones that make my shooting better as the rest seem so situational. None of the skating physic updates since 11 have really felt like much of an improvement or leap forward imo while the rest of our pros abilities have slowly been nerfed into the ground via attribute caps and tuner updates in that direction to make us feel like highschool level hockey players shooting and passing wise. I miss vision control actually making you follow the puck/puck carrier. I miss when you actually felt like an NHL caliber player in this mode and scoring was more prolific and dazzling as apposed to half the garbage that bounces its way into the net these days. Dekeing used to be an art and now you can hardly shoot the puck if you pick the one build capable of doing loose puck dekes successfully most of the time. Eashl used to feel like the base game as far as presets and tuner sliders go back in the day and now it feels like I'm out there playing with my real life ability instead of an NHL level player. I could actually live with 22 if it got a few decent tweaks for eashl in the right direction but in the long run I would say there's a lot to do before you guys ever come close to getting anywhere near what nhl11-14 provided as far as eashl is concerned.
SparkOfSanity
4 years ago
It's really too bad that the only response from EA to this thread doesn't even touch on the issue that this topic is supposed to discuss...
Still feel like this issue is being avoided.
BabyPuncher525
Rising Vanguard
4 years ago
@SparkOfSanity I feel cross play as you mentioned previously would of done wonders for the online community in this series. Not trying to throw shade at the EA community guy but the gall to come on here and say the games thriving while the most commented thread on this forum has like 15 posts. Im on forums for 4 year old games that get more posts daily than this whole forum has combined.
Moxrox84
4 years ago
@EA_Aljo The ability to find 6v6 games, choose teams, and play a full game without being dropped wasn't a bad feature back then.