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. Up until this point you have ignored your loyal fans. We ask that you return this game mode. We know it’s not that hard to add back into the game. We all think you won’t add it back in because it doesn’t make you money. Let me tell you this, you make money when we the fans purchase the game. So how about listening to us and doing what we want???? This is long overdue, step up to the plate EA.

@JCans11 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.

Fairly sure it was removed because most of the player base didn't play it but I understand your point - Hopefully we'll get some news later this month

@SwAgStRaDaMuS30 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.

@SwAgStRaDaMuS30I'm sorry mate but 75,000 is a ludicrous number - NHL on PC is a vastly more popular topic and even then they could only garner 15,000 dedicated signatures; let's be nice and double that number for more casual players and you still have numbers that are too low.EASHL is one of the most popular modes that isn't monetized anymore. The team has an obligation to the community to provide resources into modes they are going to play so it makes sense they'd give the axe to something like Connected.Even if you got 50,000 people to sign a petition, that'd be less than 10% of the total player base which just isn't viable business

@SwAgStRaDaMuS30 The 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.

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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
6 years ago
@SwAgStRaDaMuS30

If GMC was as popular as you're assuming, it would still be in the game. There has been a lot more interest in other modes and mainly gameplay. Which is why there has been such a huge focus on improving gameplay. We regularly see people saying to stop adding new features and improve what is already there. We're not saying there is no interest in GMC. It's just not as popular as it seems. I definitely understand you and your friends love that mode. You all are friends due to having a common interest. Just like my friends are all in EASHL. I know very few that want GMC as the people I tend to spend time with are in the same modes I play. That's just an example of how it can seem there's more interest in something than there is.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
6 years ago
@JCans11

It doesn't make sense to spend thousands of hours developing a feature that no one will play. We can use that crucial development time to add and improve features that the community wants. I'm not saying there's no interest in GMC. Just adding some detail to your idea that we should spend a lot of time and resources on something when it'll never be used.

You say EASHL has become stale. What would you do to make it more fun?
TTZ_Dipsy
Hero+
6 years ago
@SwAgStRaDaMuS30I'm sorry mate but 75,000 is a ludicrous number - NHL on PC is a vastly more popular topic and even then they could only garner 15,000 dedicated signatures; let's be nice and double that number for more casual players and you still have numbers that are too low.

EASHL is one of the most popular modes that isn't monetized anymore. The team has an obligation to the community to provide resources into modes they are going to play so it makes sense they'd give the axe to something like Connected.

Even if you got 50,000 people to sign a petition, that'd be less than 10% of the total player base which just isn't viable business
JCans11
6 years ago
You squids are missing the point yet again.. it shouldn’t matter what the community says on this matter. It’s a professional sports game. End of story.. and I played a ton of eashl and literally 90% of the guys I played with had serious complaints about the game.. and we were pretty damn good.. very unbalanced and horrible gameplay. A few reasons I stopped playing the game. So clearly the massive amount of hours you say your team puts into what the community wants isn’t working out for you... Sometimes simplifying is better. Most of the changes in eashl have not worked out in my opinion. It was better back in 14. Also, the fact you can’t even use multiple teams in a franchise on console is ridiculous. I can see how connected might be troublesome in an nhl game, but cmon boys... seems you’re trying harder to not do something than to just do it

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