Contract Insanity
Could you please look into the contract issues? Once we you get 5 to 7 years into Franchise, all of a sudden your Low Elite Potential, 3rd line Forwards, who are getting 3rd Line Minutes are asking f...
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@EA_Blueberry I disagree with your devs that this isn't a bug. Seems like the developers are taking the easy way out. Being a software engineer myself.. if I was tasked to code this, I would want to make it as realistic as possible. With these crazy contract asks in this thread, this would be deemed a bug!! They should look into this and resolve it.
An example is with Brock Boeser. Started a brand new career and to sign him to an extension .. on a 5yr extension, he wants over 10M per season. I got him to sign a 5 yr 9.9M extension. No way he would get this type of extension in the real world. Brayden point who is much better and plays C which is a more important position, signed an 8yr extension at 9.5M per. To get Brock on a 8 yr deal in the game.. he wants over 12M per which is not realistic and therefore should be a bug! When I read articles about what Brock's ask could be.. he would be around 8.5M tops on a 7 yr extension. Compared to what the game suggests.. its a 2 to 3M difference per year which is a BIG difference.
Can you explain again how this is not a defect?
An example is with Brock Boeser. Started a brand new career and to sign him to an extension .. on a 5yr extension, he wants over 10M per season. I got him to sign a 5 yr 9.9M extension. No way he would get this type of extension in the real world. Brayden point who is much better and plays C which is a more important position, signed an 8yr extension at 9.5M per. To get Brock on a 8 yr deal in the game.. he wants over 12M per which is not realistic and therefore should be a bug! When I read articles about what Brock's ask could be.. he would be around 8.5M tops on a 7 yr extension. Compared to what the game suggests.. its a 2 to 3M difference per year which is a BIG difference.
Can you explain again how this is not a defect?
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@Jtwong2780 wrote:
@EA_Blueberry I disagree with your devs that this isn't a bug. Seems like the developers are taking the easy way out. Being a software engineer myself.. if I was tasked to code this, I would want to make it as realistic as possible. With these crazy contract asks in this thread, this would be deemed a bug!! They should look into this and resolve it.
An example is with Brock Boeser. Started a brand new career and to sign him to an extension .. on a 5yr extension, he wants over 10M per season. I got him to sign a 5 yr 9.9M extension. No way he would get this type of extension in the real world. Brayden point who is much better and plays C which is a more important position, signed an 8yr extension at 9.5M per. To get Brock on a 8 yr deal in the game.. he wants over 12M per which is not realistic and therefore should be a bug! When I read articles about what Brock's ask could be.. he would be around 8.5M tops on a 7 yr extension. Compared to what the game suggests.. its a 2 to 3M difference per year which is a BIG difference.
Can you explain again how this is not a defect?
Isn't this more opinion though on how you value the player?
The team is aware of the feedback, shot this over to them in chat and it's been acknowledged as an area they can look into improving. Due to the current workaround they have scheduled I don't anticipate any changes around the structuring of these contracts this season, unless there are changes ahead that alter time-frames. I'd say having it more closely resemble where an individual feels a player's true contract value in real life is an area for improvement rather than bug where it acts in a way not intentionally designed. Is it perfect? No. Can it be improved, yes.
- @EA_Blueberry Its not on how I value the player.. this is based on how analysts, reporters and NHL staff value the player...
Many will agree that Boeser is not worth the same amount as Point...
again on an 8 year term
Point -9.5M per season
EA Boeser wants over 12M... thats a difference of 2 to 3 M..
They also enter their extensions the same year which is the 2022 to 2023 offseason.
To me this is more of a defect... if the difference was I can sign Boeser to an 8year extension at 9.5 M ... then fine.. i can live with that and yes, improvements are needed still ... but we are talking about over 12 M on the same term.
Franchise mode should be similar to real life... the fact that you have all these contracts that other players are encountering for not even top 6 forwards ... shows that its more of a bug than an improvement. - @EA_Blueberry and what is the current workaround?
- @EA_Blueberry so it was fine before, now it's something that can be improved? I'm really lost at what the team is thinking day to day
- @EA_Blueberry Do any of the game devs follow hockey in real life?.. I mean I’d hope so lol.. Franchise Mode.. signing players to contracts.. they should know that Kaprizov 91ovr asking for 16M, and Mcdavid 96ovr asking for a tad under 12M isn’t right.. they should know that 38yo 72ovr Cam Atkinson shouldn’t be asking for 3.5M… even if they weren’t hockey fans or didn’t know what a puck is.. they should know by the numbers that something isn’t right.. it is NOT “individual” opinion on the player..
there is clearly players that are objectively better and deserve more money than other players.. and there are objectively worse players that shouldn’t be asking for the contracts they do.. this is just bad programming that we have been mentioning for years.. and years..
