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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EA_Blueberry
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We'll pass along your thoughts. I've done a lot of market research studies over my life, both in person and online. Part of market research is to gather different opinions and demographics. So it's possible you'll get offers to test other games out and even ones that you play regularly. It's not always guaranteed to test your primary games. I am not primarily involved in Playtesting but do know working part of NHL for some time the devs really look forward to the feedback on the alphas/Closed betas. Those sessions are when the most dedicated players sign up because casuals don't generally participate in forums and the social media accounts. So those groups have a lot of important feedback from NHL vets.
@heavydutyrammer
The team does listen to the community as they've added features year over year the community requests. It sounds like they're not hitting the mark on your offline requests. We'll do our part to highlight those requests each week to them so they can consider that. We make games for the players because like you said, you al play the game. I think there has to be a relationship of trusting the developers who go to school and have a creative mindset, similar to how you visualize a tasty steak and rely on the chef who is trained to prepare it behind the scenes.
@EA_Blueberry while we are on this topic, I think it should include the ability to edit a players weight. Currently the weight of a player on draft day is the weight for his career in franchise mode. We always have players with "must bulk up " in the scouting report but the system doesn't make that happen for them, they simply stay the same weight. I have to pass on drafting these otherwise elite players due to this. It stinks to see these players rot away in the AHL because they don't have the correct build. Example of this is a player I passed on in draft: height 6-1 weight 157 scouting report : must bulk up, elite TWD. Eight seasons later he is still 157 lbs and in the AHL.
- @grkub Still waiting for any information from EA on why this simple important feature was locked… I still don’t know why… they just ignore us each time we ask..
@heavydutyrammer I think they have thrown in the towel on Nhl22 and have moved on to 23 now
- @grkub For the most part I don’t doubt it.. we saw how quickly NHL 21 was left and they jumped onto NHL 22.. was hoping 22 would be more complete given the amount of time spent working on it… new console generation so have to take that into consideration.. but if NHL 23 is the same..
EA has had enough second chances… NHL 15, 16.. those were garbage…
NHL 17-20 brought in good ideas and features.. but they just didn’t work properly.. coaches.. scouts.. chemistry.. all great ideas.. if they worked nicely but they do not work nicely at all… contracts are broken.. chemistry.. etc everything I listed… that’s a lot of second chances..
and now with 22 all they added was X factors..and roster sharing which has issues.. and charged $80 for it lol… but this time there is more bugs… and we continue to be locked out of editing player which at least let us fix lots of issues.. now we can’t..
If NHL 23 doesn’t revamp Franchise Mode and Be a Pro then I am leaving EA behind.. I like that they actually trying to implement new things.... but they always make the new things make you feel that they only did them half way and not fully (or fully tested).
Anyone who playes the mode could give them quite fast what isn´t working with the new thing, ans what needs to improve on them....
The thing that is strange is that there is a lot of game testing, lots of BETA testing, they have feedback people in their programs with youtubers, gamers etc.
And what I have seen and heard is that they got a lot of good feedback from them, but most of it doesn´t change the game before the launch anyway and thats is strange.
If the beta testing etc is just for show or is the deadline to important that they have to choose what to to improve and what not because of too little resources for everything that isn´t HUT?...
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