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13JOHNNYHOCKEY1
5 years ago

Franchise mode - Players who have a great season do much worse next year

Product: NHL 21
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By playing franchise mode and going to progress report after a few years of sim
What happens when the bug occurs? Players with elite potential put up 100+ points in a year and lose potential and or get worse for no reason when there young(20-26) Players in general just get worse after a good year and frankly it’s pissing me off
What do you expect to see? For it to be fixed and be more realistic and for potential to stay or even go up after having an unreal year instead of going down
Was the issue in online or offline mode? Offline
Insert Game Mode or Feature here Franchise mode
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM) 5:20 pm
What is your time zone? HST - GMT - 10:00
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? SeisPapi_Jr7
PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.
EASHL issues? Please insert your Club Region.
What is your game language? English

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Frankly this is a joke and needs to be fixed ASAP 

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  • TwoHeadedTOM's avatar
    TwoHeadedTOM
    5 years ago

    I'm having the same problem and frankly it's unacceptable. I bought this game on October 6th for early access and first it was the scouting bug (which took them a month to fix) then it was the player substitution bug, and now this. Setting aside the fact that this bug was in there from the beginning (I think) it makes franchise mode incredibly upsetting to play. You draft a player, spend the time developing him and he has a great season, he's an 88-89 player only for his overall to drop to 81 after you simulate, like what?!?! To spend $60 on a game only to see it riddled with bugs in the only game mode I play in INCREDIBLY frustrating. How have they not fixed this? How did they even release this game with this many bugs in it? Frankly this, along with the previous problems with scouting and line chemistry etc made me go back to NHL 20 because that game, while subpar, is at least playable. 

  • SkylerJames13's avatar
    SkylerJames13
    5 years ago
    @TwoHeadedTOM This is such a disastrous monstrosity of a game.
    I haven’t even been able to play NHL 20, as it was so stale. It was hardly a step of from 19 to be honest. But like you’ve said, at least 20 is playable whereas 21 is not. Not even remotely playable.
    Having the overall decrease like this is ridiculous. With morale off, overalls shouldn’t be fluctuating so much like that, especially if they aren’t 33-36yrs old. If they’re a young player they shouldn’t see a sharp decline in their overall unless they have something like two bad back to back season then sure. This is a pathetic excuse for a game.
    Obviously I’m bitter, but as a customer and fan that’s played the series for years and years, I will continue to voice my displeasure at the awful “game” that was released
  • TwoHeadedTOM's avatar
    TwoHeadedTOM
    5 years ago

    @SkylerJames13 It truly baffles me how they released the game with SO MANY problems. While NHL 20 was, lets be honest, a carbon copy of 19, I don't recall any bugs in the single player modes. Now I understand that Covid drastically changed things for everyone, but I mean come on.... I thought the purpose of releasing the game a month later than they usually do was to weed out any systemic problems/bugs and yet, here we are; a month and a half after the release and still MAJOR bugs are there. When are EA going to get there dang act together and fix this game?!?

  • 13JOHNNYHOCKEY1's avatar
    13JOHNNYHOCKEY1
    5 years ago

    @TwoHeadedTOM @SkylerJames13 I just want this and the many other bugs to be fixed because tbh it’s about time and frankly if it doesn’t I might have to ask for a refund fr fr cuz this is just one of many bugs that makes this game unplayable

  • SkylerJames13's avatar
    SkylerJames13
    5 years ago
    @13JOHNNYHOCKEY13 If you have any luck on getting a refund, then let me know. I tried with no luck. I would refund it in a heartbeat if you figure out how
  • TwoHeadedTOM's avatar
    TwoHeadedTOM
    5 years ago

    @13JOHNNYHOCKEY13 Yeah something tells me they are not gonna refund. Good luck with it though! I mean I want to play this game and I want it to work but as it stands we can't and it doesn't! Hopefully someone from EA will look at this soon. Though, since Franchise mode doesn't bring any new money to the game I am betting it's going to be a while before they do anything.... ☹️

    @EA_Aljo 

  • Phoenix0029's avatar
    Phoenix0029
    5 years ago

    Having this issue as well. Frankly, it completely breaks franchise mode. It is the first time in 10 years that I completely stop playing NHL this early after release. 

  • TwoHeadedTOM's avatar
    TwoHeadedTOM
    5 years ago

    @Phoenix0029 Me too man. Makes it completely unplayable. Been a long time buyer of these games and this is by far the worst most bug infested version. 

  • SkylerJames13's avatar
    SkylerJames13
    5 years ago
    @Phoenix0029 I played it for 2-3 days, and haven’t played it since. What a garbage game. It’s amazing what the company does to this game and how they treat their fan base. We’ve asked for so little for so many years and still, year after year we get shafted.
    Why does FM have so many bugs that makes it unplayable? Isn’t the point of a game, is to be able to play it?

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