GM Connected
Thousands of customers who have supported this game for years have been asking for GM Connected to come back since it left. There have been petitions all over the internet begging for this game mode....
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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerThe reason why it hasn't been returned was due to a low population of people playing it. It has nothing to do with not being monetized. If that were the issue, there would be only one mode available to play. There are a dozen other modes besides HUT that aren't monetized. Hopefully, we'll see this mode return, but we don't have any details at this time. The dev team is aware of the requests, but there also have been bigger priorities to focus on.
- @EA_Aljo That is the problem, your priorities are completely *** backwards. How can a professional sports game not have the ability to go into a multi team franchise with friends? The reason this mode was apparently “not being played” was because people had issues with connecting. Did the dev team ever try to fix it or get to the bottom of the problem though? No, you guys continue to push that stupid game mode that’s half broken and many of your fans don’t even play. My brother and I have purchased this game for the past 4 years hoping we could do something normal like go into a franchise together and we have not even played it AT ALL once we realized it wasn’t in the game. Change.org had a petition signed with 1500 people saying they wanted the mode. Think about that, 1500 people took time out of there day to find this and sign it, that’s probably about 5% of the people who want the mode back. The rest just stopped buying your game. And if you continue many more won’t buy it. Your ratings are terrible and this is a big reason why. Listen to your fans and add a game mode that should be the first one you work on year in year out in a profession sports game. All I hear is excuses and it’s pathetic. Half your fans could care less about this Chel crap and ultimate team. This is all I have to say, “there are bigger priorities” is disrespectful to the fan base. That’s not the correct answer.
I won’t be buying any NHL games anymore until you add the game mode. I can also tell you about 50 people I know will also not be buying it for the same reason. I know it’s all about money so you can either lose our money or add it in. It’s that simple.
- @EA_Aljo Shouldn’t matter whether 0 or all play the mode.. it’s a sports game.... how there isn’t a mode where multiple users can play out multiple seasons and build up teams is beyond me... I’ve been playing this game for over a decade. The last one I enjoyed was 14. You guys butchered eashl and took away one of the two decent modes in gm connected. You can say it’s not about money all you want but ultimate team has ruined every ea sports product out there.
Exactly my point. This is a sports game and there isn’t a online franchise mode. LOL, you gotta be joking!! To busy trying to steal peoples money through game modes that are terrible. Hey maybe we will have this game mode in 2046.
- EA_Aljo
There is a franchise mode. It's just not online. I don't see how we're stealing money since there is one mode that some people choose to spend money on. We're not taking their money without their notice. That would be stealing.
- EA_Aljo
The reason it matters when very few people use a feature is because it takes a lot of work to rebuild that mode in the current version of the game. I say there are high priorities because we want to make the most of the short time there is each year to build the new game. When there are 1500 people out of the hundreds of thousands that play the game wanting one feature, but the rest of the population wants work in other areas of the game, the dev team tends to focus on the features that benefit the large part of the community so it impacts the most people. Otherwise, spending countless hours on a feature very few play isn't the best way to utilize our resources. That's not to say we don't want GMC to return. I know there's a very big interest in that from the dev team so hopefully, it happens.
1500 people signed the petition. You think there’s only 1500 who want GM connected? Multiple that by Atleast 50 and that’s the floor number. At a minimum, 75000 people want GM connected. Like I said before, instead of fixing connection issues associated with GM Connected, you guys decided it was better to cater towards pay to play people. What do you even work on? The ratings of this game are terrible. This is a professional sports game that has no online franchise mode. That alone signifies a failed vision, a terrible Dev team, and a terrible game. Get a grip.
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