Practice mode in eashl

I get that PR wise that's what you have to answer about most of whats being dished at you and I commend you for doing it but if sparking a discussion about the decision making your employer(s) makes year after year, it seems to me that going backwards is a popular trend in order to be able to maximise profit rather than being able to deliver a product to their fanbase they could be proud to show off rather than * on year after year.

It's not rocket science at this point or day and age. If ea wants to sell me a yearly product I want to see stat sheets and reports on what exactly is being utilised and played the most. Generate a list of possible ideas that is being repeatedly requested year after year that could be added onto those top 3 or 4 modes and send out progress report quaterly to let everyone know, hey bros, we see you, here's what's going on.... Why on earth would we need a practice mode in VS Play, VS a mode that literally requires you to spend time/energy/coordination in order to compete in the 3s or 6s team play that your employer is apparently trying to push or promote somehow. It's like giving me an exam to do in order to rate me but not giving me a pencil or pen to write on the paper... Here's my exam back sir. Let me know what you think about it (opens up coach's advices).

- Oh practice and use more my slap passes and what not, okay let me take a retest with no pen again and hopefully my slap passes will land better next playoff game. Oh wait nvm my team kicked me out, they saw I was taking up everyone's time and effort by trying to do your test without a pen... (?_?) I mean...

Please tell me at the very least you also see this... I have but the upmost respect for CMs and your obligations, as long as we're on the same page here... 

Your employer promotes a team game but doesn't give us any tools to actually improve on the mechanics that any indie publisher would hand out freely by some form of means either by a releasing it with the actual fully priced game or a separate client down the road that can replicate the environment. Literally all they have to do is copy what ever practice environment they have already in VS mode offline or what ever it is, but instead of picking off players from the Buffalo sabres, have the team generate the players off your current load out. Even if it is released 3-4-5-6 months into the games release, hallelujah, the Devs have blessed us by listening to our feedback and gave us a bone after being faithful to them year after year! 

Better yet, once they release NHL's yearly subscription, have them release the engine and code to the public and do like starcraft or Warcraft does with custom map building. Ea gets paid, we get our game, dedicated people get to fiddle around with the games mechanics and the really really die hard nhl fans out there starts to goet cracking on what everyone's been asking in the course of the last 2 decades now lol.... 

I'll stop here but as much as I do understand your 2 minute reply to our 20 years of loyalty, I don't buy into it and never will. There is a zillion other possible solutions out there to make everyone happy and satisfied but 1 player doesn't want to play fair and it wants to keep feeding us year after year fairytales about how they are hard at work with this new 3on3 outdoor rink concept nobody asked for to begin with and maybe spend some time on what ever is already in the actual game. But what ever, here's 70$ and an extra 100 for any packs I'd may or may not buy just in case ea needs it. See ya next September with da rent money boys... I'll make sure to throw out any cards I acquired over the year out the window to make place for the this year's cards cause digital artwork doesn't transfer well enough from one media to another... 

Okay now I'm done... Sorry again.... 2 decades has been building up here... Had to come out someday... Cheers! 

-Everyone