Please Adjust EASHL Drop-In Games
As it stands right now, if the opposing team (or my team) fully quit the game, the game automatically ends, and no stats, xp, or progress is earned. This is severely turning people away from playing ...
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EA_Blueberry
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Community Manager@K1ng0fHartsTTV
Thank you for the breakdown! This was a popular discussion on our NHL 21 forums last year. We're always interested in getting more feedback from others, if anyone is lurking this post feel free to pop in with your suggestions.
I think the cooldowns you're suggesting are fair and not over the top, @K1ng0fHartsTTV
I officially gave up on Drop Ins this year. Played one, that was one too many. It isn/t EA's fault, but rather, the player base. Players sitting in dressing room jockeying for best team, then jumping out at the last second. Spend more time in dressing room than in actual game play. With today's player, as soon as they go down couple of goals (if you are lucky), they quit, no fortitude. Human goalies are the worst. This is on top of the fact that the mode is often a selfish goal scorefest which isn't real hockey anyway. My advice to you, find friends and play with people in EASL, experience is so much better and closer to real hockey. I wish drops didn't exist because this is never going to get better and it just fractures the player base.
- EA_Blueberry@fear_the_nut70
Do you think drop ins would be a better experience if there was no dressing room then? You can party up with a friend if you want, select primary and backup position, then queue up to be sent into a game with others?What might help is if players couldn't see details from opponents, like the playoffs in EASL. I think people see LV experience and assume this correlates with better players, and if their team has the lower levels, they drop.
Seeing the other team's stats is a great way to adopt a proper strategy. If someone has 3,000 goals in 3v3 for example, you know they are just meta scrubs and know to hang back, if they just show as having a ton of hits you know you can bait them into penalties, that sort of thing. I absolutely hate having teams constantly drop out of the dressing room over and over. If matchmaking was good, we wouldn't have to worry about any of this since both teams would be relatively balanced.
There should most definitely be a penalty for quitting early but EA needs to step up to the plate and start fixing matchmaking/connectivity issues that honestly seem to only happen in EA titles -- Legit connection losses are absolutely infuriating. Yes, a 10,000,000 gigajoules per nanosecond connection doesn't guarantee you'll see no lag, but when the servers themselves cause bottlenecks, we're gonna have a bad time.
I don't want to see a vote kick option because I think it can be abused but I can totally see why players would opt to just leave in a drop-in game; they basically mean nothing and sometimes teammates can REALLY suck.
That shouldn't even be a question. It has to change
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