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Okay, very cool about roster sharing! Thank you for listening to that feedback.
Other than that it seems like almost nothing is different about Franchise Mode. Yeah, the X-Factor is new (I personally don’t care about it) and yeah we’re keeping a very cool feature with the expansion draft, but everything else is the same? A few questions:
1) Is development still broken? (IE: is it near impossible to develop a player without elite potential still? AND do older players still take forever to regress, where the majority of retirements after a few seasons are guys in their late 30s and early 40s?
2) If you start a franchise with 33 teams is the schedule still messed up, where you just play every team 2.5 times at random and the division standing still get messed up?
3) Can we still not edit things like player type so we can fix the obvious errors on created draft picks? (IE: someone has attributes that best suit a sniper and they’re a two-way forward)
4) Any new logos available when creating the 33rd team?
Not gonna lie, I’m a wee bit annoyed that at the very least question 1 from my earlier post hasn’t been answered, let alone acknowledged, after 24 hours.
It should be an easy question to answer, IMO, and should’ve been answered in the not-so-deep deep dive video considering the size of and frustration in this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Franchise-mode-Players-who-have-a-great-season-do-much-worse/m-p/9764069#M2042
I have a hard time believing that they would leave this problem unfixed for 22 (a very hard time), but the lack of acknowledgment combined with how many problems they had last year at launch plus a new game engine does make me pretty nervous.
Exactly. There’s not a chance I’m buying this game until it’s confirmed that’s fixed.
Between @Beauts90‘s experience and the people in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/EANHLfranchise/comments/q609zj/nhl22_prospect_development_issues/ it looks like the bug that made Franchise Mode unplayable was actually fixed. Great news!
It’s crazy to me that this isn’t something you guys would have mentioned in the deep dive, EA.
I’ll buy the game once it’s confirmed the jersey numbers bug for created teams is fixed in the next patch.
