I'd have thought that with delaying the launch by a month, they could use some of that time to straighten out the game and make it not too buggy on launch, but here we are. I'm disappointed that there is no GM connected and not even being able to play the offline game modes properly because of bugs at launch is ridiculous. At this point I'm not really sure why I keep putting out the money for the games. They have been behind the curve of Be a Pro by a few years, to games ALSO MADE BY EA. I understand that the Madden and NHL devs most likely never work together, but I'd at least want to see these people on the NHL team see the consumers' reactions to other similar products on the market and say, "huh, maybe we can do that to get more people to play NHL." People have been asking for GM connected to come back since it was taken away, still nothing there; there have really only been pushes on the pay to win front until this year, and even then the bugs in HUT still seem to be the only ones they care about because other than selling game copies, that's what makes the money, microtransactions. I didn't pay for an early access indie game, I paid for NHL 21 by EA Sports. I wanted to pay for a game I could play, not one that I have to wait for the next installment of the franchise to play a broken game mode. Someone feel free to stop and correct me, but all it takes to see what the people want is to look up 4 words on google and look at some reddit thread and bam, there you have another bunch of tens to hundreds of thousands of copies sold because you listened to what the fans want instead of putting in a 15th variant of the 3 on 3 play format that gets stale after about 25 minutes.
