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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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.
Wow, so many valid points and wonderful feedback. However, for me, my biggest issue is with being able to actually drop in to a game. More often than not this year, I have had several sessions of searching with no avail. It is an absolute waste of time and corrupting my feelings towards the game. I am all about teaming up with friends to drop, but sometimes this is not feasible (schedules don’t align) which means spending 20 minutes at minimum to join a game (generally closer to an hour). At this point I play something else. I have never enjoyed any NHL title for the offline mode, I purchase this title straight up for the online game play. However, this is the first year I have struggled to even see a dressing room, let alone experience players backing out at the last minute. Obviously the system is broken and has been, I really don’t care about stats, RP, or any other metric, I’d much rather prefer to enjoy a game. I don’t expect to recreate a legit hockey experience, but would love the opportunity to be apart of a live game on consistent basis. Listen to your audience, if it’s important to them, I believe as a company you should make important to you.
