Lack of dual position players
I know not every player plays dual positions but in be a pro you have to select a secondary position when creating your player but in franchise it seems that draft prospects are like 1 in 50 have dua...
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They aren't go8ng to tell you its out of spite. It got locked down in NHL 21 after 50 or 100 streamers told you how to break the game. They don't it when players beat them. So, they locked it down to prevent people from getting +5 on every line by cheating.
Not that +5 on every line matters, when you have have a 92 Franchise Goalie and 4 lines at +5 and fail to make the playoffs. Their sym engine and character generation is flawed. They won't fix it or care about it, becuase Franchise Mode is a 60+ (not 80 plus, you gotta look at the lowest value it can be bought for) where cards and other online modes lend themselves to microtranactions. Its a business.
What happens is 100% of the Franchise Players don't buy the game, well the 50% dropping hundreds and thousands on the online modes a year get preference. Its been that way for years and they won't admit to it, so save your efforts and don't keep asking
@EA_Blueberry prove me wrong.
@IrishOwl I mean I’ll keep on asking because I love hockey.. and I want a good hockey game.. I don’t think I will get it from EA but I don’t have many other options. Also not to nit pick lol but the lowest I can buy it for is $80.. I’m in Canada and new games are 79.99 not 59.99 like the states
Hey man, sorry about the assumotion. I saw the '$" and think US Dollar, I didn't know Canada used that symbol for their money. Thanks for teaching me something new!
As far as the love of the game, I am totally feeling you. EA just really frustrates me with this, but more so its the Streamers. People are always looking for the cheat. The only thing I did to edit was players was to change their positions (because you know I have 5 left rings and 2 right wingers and the prospects didn't get better because I have them in the wrong position or the player type, if I had a mislabeled prospects who were clearly PLY and not SNP. You know the things you should/can change about your players. But since they put all this emphasis on Line Chemistry and everyone wanted to cheat EA locked it down. Its basically just two big groups of whiners. The streamers who want everything on easy mode, looking for expliots and the devs who want you to play their way or no way.Man, it used to be so much fun. I love the scouting (though to be honest they need to make it so you can set people multiple times in a single run) and I have all these rules, like my Head Coach has Carry/Shoot, IDC if you are elite potential if you've got Dump/Cycle, I'd rather take that Top6F that will slot into my forward line and make it a +5. That type of thing. Ah, when the game was good.
- @IrishOwl Yes I miss when the game was good.. that’s what I did for my players too.. if I have an abundance of LW and no good RW prospects.. I’m not gonna draft crappy RW.. I’ll switch some LW over.. because we know how bad the computer is at making prospects.. but now we can’t so we have to deal with the crappy prospects.. nothing is good about NHL anymore since NHL 21.. poor game
They are simply trying to push everything to the online game play so they can make more money off people buying packs. I had to stop playing NHL22 and switch over to 2k games that are more fun in franchise mode. Glad I didn't buy EA NFL this year as well. Next will be to cancel my EA Play account since the only games I got it for was NHL and Madden.
- @grkub I wish I enjoyed the other sports.. I don’t care for soccer, basketball or football.. I wish I did though because 2K has some really well developed games with nice Franchise Modes.. but instead I’m stuck with EA’s bad games… I’m only a hockey fan..
I remember watching Kobe’s retirement game and man.. I was bored to tears lol
Any way, just so we don’t go too off topic and get the thread locked.. I also agree that they gear almost everything towards online modes.. it’s simpler that way.. remove the good functions from the offline modes to try to get us to move to online modes I guess.. there’s no need for editing for online modes.. because if you don’t have the right cards.. then you have to buy more packs.. boom more $$$ for EA.. sad We are twins with the @heavydutyrammer I need them to fix this game. Its the first one to include Seattle, and I really wanted it to be good. I guess I'm going back to NHL 20 - Which hurts... I really like X-Factors.
With the lack of dual position players we need to be able to edit players to correct this. Heck I'm not even going into the fact that some players are like Swiss army knives and are able to play all 3 fwd positions successfully in real life. Just let us make the adjustments to the players.
- @grkub Yes it doesn’t make sense that we are forced to play with bad generated prospects and very inaccurate rosters.. there are lots of players from official EA rosters that are either wrong position, wrong height, wrong weight.. and we can’t fix it..
We still fighting this battle?
They already said they aren't giving us the ability to edit players. No matter how many great arguments we have, or develop.
Instead we should focus on talking about what they can do to enhance the game. Oh wait, they really don't care about Franchise.
- @IrishOwl Gonna keep on fighting the battle.. can’t give up and accept it.. yes they don’t care about the Franchise Mode.. but they deserve to see the disappointment and frustration from their customers..
- @heavydutyrammer and their pockets hopefully soon enough
There are like 6 of 7s on the forums talking about it. And we've talked about it a few hundred times. They know.
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