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eashl in shambles

dutchie80
45 posts Member
edited February 2019
i'm not being negative here but being honest.....this years game is an absolute disaster. this is the worst ive seen any of the the nhl games since it began. nothing works. the connection is terrible.the tripping and penalties all make no sense. the hits from behind are the only ones that do. worse now since the update for everyone is the ping and connection issues.

i am not here to complain for myself but my teammates in eashl are shocked as well. we cannot count how many teams i have seen have a guy get kicked out of the game as its loading on either team. i cant count now how high the pings are in every game. we went from the last few years from 17ms with a delay one in 10 games, to now every game being between 30 and 80. it doesn't even seem to be the right number it represents half the time now. i told my teammates when this game first came out in September when 40ms became the new green status that something was up and they were going to try and hide this. it seems like we can skate in mud at 30ms and the next game be 30ms and be fast. one thing it does for sure do is lag 100x since the update a few days ago. it is almost unplayable and not worth playing for sure.

the game play is so badly off in every way its terrible in eashl. i would like to know in 2019 how this is possible? i would like someone at ea to please give us an explanation on what is really going on and if they will ever try and fix it? . all the other games out there have like 64 multiplayer servers and we need maximum 12? i am shocked that they are allowed to put out a product that is so badly broken in so many ways. when this started happening we were all accepting of it on our squad and said oh they will fix it in the next few weeks. the opposite has happened....it has regressed.

i think we should all think with our wallets next season and not get this thing all together. i am shocked and sadened to see this game in this state. i remember when nhl 15 was such a big deal and everyone was up in arms over it not being up to par and now, this is much much worse. i am sad to say this is my last year as a customer. this group of developers shown time and time again they cannot get the job done and please the fan base. 80 dollars here in Canada and we cannot find games, we cannot play games and if we do we lag every time with all having internet 300 and one of our guys has internet 600. we have waited an hour many times just finding a game in eashl that doesn't go or we get dropped out or the other team looses members. i have been buying this product since it came out. i remember playing the very first year on sega genesis as a kid. i hadn't gotten it every possible year but close.

i have never been bummed out like i am about the product until right now. it seems it is an all time low. i will never understand why all the other multiplayer games in the world don't have these problems but the nhl franchise games do?. are there other games out there that you guys out there in the world know about that are the same as this? maybe if there is a fix or they have been fixed that there is an answer? why can ea not answer or address or admit that we are not all crazy out here playing this product that doesn't work? why do they not keep their customer base informed. we as consumer's keep this product running. i think they should care much more about us than what is happening here. do any of the players here have an answer? is there knowledge out there in the community of why it is the way it is? thanks to all who read

[Socair - edited to add line breaks, to improve readability]
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  • Your original ping that was shown from last year was actually wrong, according to EA. The ping is still the same, but what the actual value is showing is different.

    Example before the latest patch, ping would of said 14, after the patch it now says 28. Your actual ping is the same @28.

    You must unlearn what you have learned!
  • Game will always be terrible until they fix the servers. Game just doesnt feel the same at all when ur lagging and when you arent. From nhl 09 to nhl 15 on ps3/xb the only time we would lag is when we played euro players.
  • i dont believe it cogs. i understand your relaying what they said, my experience has been different....every game is now a slug show when i rarely had problems before. its now like 1 out of 5 games my guy feels like hes not in mud in eashl. it used to feel like that 1 out of 10 games the other way before this patch. its out of control. xflatov you sir are totally right. i remember when that was the case too. i do not know how this has happened or how this is acceptable to the consumer.
  • EA dropped the ball on this years version, obviously. What's sad is that they don't have the integrity to admit...severe lack of ethics and morality from them at this point, to be frank.

    EASHL got the worst of it, and Drop In really got screwed. Instead of fixing things that were broken at the start, like replays, they just removed them. Instead of fixing the matchmaking, they just pushed it off to 2019 version. Who know's if it'll be fixed there.

    EA, and clearly the people who work on these games, have long since forgotten how to create a stable, viable product actually worth the AAA price they keep slapping on it. Sorry EA, just a pig with lipstick on it now.
  • I've bought this game for 26 years and this is the least fun I've ever had playing it. They have stripped all the fun out of it. The eashl used to be awesome and run good (never great, it's EA) now it's crap. The play was fun, now it's crap. Half the fun was attribute points and grinding, now it's vanilla CRAP. I can't think of anything good to say about it.
  • NickKefz
    67 posts Member
    edited February 2019
    Playing the game (EASHL) at 8/9pm then playing the game after midnight its like playing 2 completely different games unfortunately. Its 100 percent the servers bud they are just plain terrible and they probably refuse to upgrade or do whatever it takes to make them playable at all times because NHL is always the last in line for EA games when it comes to these things.

    I will say though I feel it a lot less when I am using a smaller build in height/weight but the puck pickup and delayed actions factor is still there.
  • thanks for all the insight here guys. keep this going. id love to see some of you guys out there that are up on tech. i would like to the IT guys chime in on this. i just think it is completely offensive for 80 dollars we cannot have a product that functions the way it is advertised. would be nice to see others insights to why its is happening
  • cogsx86
    787 posts Member
    I've bought this game for 26 years and this is the least fun I've ever had playing it. They have stripped all the fun out of it. The eashl used to be awesome and run good (never great, it's EA) now it's crap. The play was fun, now it's crap. Half the fun was attribute points and grinding, now it's vanilla CRAP. I can't think of anything good to say about it.

    go figure its becuz the game plays more realistic then any years past
    You must unlearn what you have learned!
  • zingaa1
    406 posts Member
    Playing the game (EASHL) at 8/9pm then playing the game after midnight its like playing 2 completely different games unfortunately. Its 100 percent the servers bud they are just plain terrible and they probably refuse to upgrade or do whatever it takes to make them playable at all times because NHL is always the last in line for EA games when it comes to these things.

    I will say though I feel it a lot less when I am using a smaller build in height/weight but the puck pickup and delayed actions factor is still there.

    Agreed, I'm a middle of the night player and not only is the connection better but the talent pool as well. I play once in a great while in the day and I lose my mind.
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