The line chemistry they've implemented makes so little sense that I'd rather turn it off altogether. I see it as just being random and really stupid. Franchise mode has turned into a broken mode that keeps being added to in bad ways that make it worse along with having things taken away (editing) that makes it even worse; advertised as a "new & improved" mode though each year.
It's like they've done subtraction by addition and simultaneously subtraction by subtraction.
@LordDecland I like the idea of turning off line chemistry, especially since they locked us out of being able to edit the player to get around their awful line chemistry system. If they’re gonna make TWD/TWF useless, let me change some of their player types so they aren’t useless.
If they don’t start listening to the community and keep removing good, working features and adding broken useless feature, I’m definitely quitting buying nhl from EA. And I will continue recommending my friends and others in the FM group on Facebook to not buy nhl 21, or even 22. Nhl 20 was the last decent one, and it wasn’t even the greatest.
still can’t believe this bug hasn’t been addressed
I saw in one of the other threads the person saying that this problem extends to the generated prospects in draft classes and the coaches' preferred attributes. Not only are these "features" individually flawed, they're even worse since they don't all work together like they're supposed to. EA obviously has different departments working different tasks and no project manager tying it all together.
We want a product that works properly so badly that we're willing to put in all the effort to correct these flaws on our own, then they still take away our ability to edit, and therefore fix, these things.
I miss the days when I could just break open a PC game's code and rewrite it myself. Sure, back then, it was so I could cheat and essentially play God Mode (thanks, Doom!) on whatever I was playing, but right now, I just want to clean up nonsense, not cheat. The trades... especially during the Deadline mini game...
Oh, man... if this was on Steam...
I just can't even understand the decision to take away full editing if it was once there (as said in other conversations, my last purchase was '15, and I didn't pay this kind of attention to it). We're talking about an offline mode... why would they possibly care if we edited anything we didn't like? Doesn't affect anyone else. Doesn't affect online gaming. Doesn't affect accumulating loot pack coins. If I did make all my guys 99s and the entire rest of the league 50s, who cares? Turning off editing seems like the most useless of decisions.
Maybe if they fixed these bugs from year to year, that's a legitimate argument that could be made for why to shut down complete editing... but even still, on Franchise Mode that affects exactly nobody outside of the person editing, that's a tough sell. All they're going to actually do is continue pushing players away from the product. Nobody in the corporation is going to care about that as long as loot crate mode is what's still raking it in, though.
