NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

[casbruce]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

Saying it will be out November 2nd is the first date they've given. So they have not missed it. Giving a general statement about it being out in a couple of weeks is not a deadline. I've never been in any situation where saying "it'll be done in a couple of weeks" is considered a deadline. Deadlines are exact dates/times. If you've ever given your project team an actual deadline of "in the next couple of weeks" than you have a very fortunate, lucky project team.

And why is it ludicrous to defend EA on something? I'm sick of this attitude that you have to criticize the gaming companies for everything otherwise you're just a stupid fanboy who doesn't know any better.

[Jeremydudeman93]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

Well with all this time, EA better have been watching games and rating players crazy accurate to what they are.

[Fiddy]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

we wont see very many rating changes at all... not a chance of it at all!!

[tmac55]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

I may be in the minority here but I am grateful for the time they take to give us a good roster update. As a lifelong season ticket holder to the Windsor Spitfires, I also appreciate the dedication to completely redo the CHL.

The player turnover from the rosters on the game now to the current CHL rosters is crazy and i say kudos to their efforts. Some of you need to relax and be thankful for what is coming.

Yes I realize it's been a few weeks now; however, this is great to see and hopefully we can all get on our ways once it arrives.

[misch13fRoyale]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

I may be in the minority here but I am grateful for the time they take to give us a good roster update. As a lifelong season ticket holder to the Windsor Spitfires, I also appreciate the dedication to completely redo the CHL.

The player turnover from the rosters on the game now to the current CHL rosters is crazy and i say kudos to their efforts. Some of you need to relax and be thankful for what is coming.

Yes I realize it's been a few weeks now; however, this is great to see and hopefully we can all get on our ways once it arrives.

AGREED!!! the way its been handled hasnt been pleasant for even those who have been patient and understand that NORMALLY the first roster updates arent released until about the end of october. Just today I saw and posted the date in which they say it will be released... i think that has been the majority of the complaints. But youll always get people who will complain from the get go... thats impossible to avoid!!

[canucksss]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

im JUST GLAD that they are having this ROSTER UPDATE .......... FINALLY!!!!!!!

somehow i cant open the link.... does it says Nov.2 roster is available for D/L or that is the date of their submission to MS and it will take another 2-3 days before its approved?

I agree with mkharsh that this is USELESS for BeGM mode since the mode is not working properly..... which is a BIG DISAPPOINTMENT for me.

[savoie2006]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

im JUST GLAD that they are having this ROSTER UPDATE .......... FINALLY!!!!!!!

somehow i cant open the link.... does it says Nov.2 roster is available for D/L or that is the date of their submission to MS and it will take another 2-3 days before its approved?

I agree with mkharsh that this is USELESS for BeGM mode since the mode is not working properly..... which is a BIG DISAPPOINTMENT for me.

Rosters don't require MS certification, only patches.

[chelios7]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

Rosters don't require MS certification, only patches.

Exactly. The fact that the Mod on the EA site tried to say that they were waiting on Sony and MS to approve it was ridiculous. Its just a roster update.

I can wait until Tuesday, but if they finally give a date, they damn sure better make sure they can deliver. And next year, at LEAST make sure that you get the NHL roster out as soon as you can.

[toughfighter83]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

is anyone going to make an offline roster for nhl 11 xbox 360?, i dont have live but have xport.

[savoie2006]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

"I can wait until Tuesday, but if they finally give a date, they damn sure better make sure they can deliver. And next year, at LEAST make sure that you get the NHL roster out as soon as you can."

They did have updates online that could be saved for offline play as well you know.

[speels]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that they HAD to wait until now to release it. With the time teams have to move players around then those players to join the appropriate unions (if they haven't already), around a few days from now would be when an official "start-of-season" roster should be available. EA had to wait until all moves would be finalized, 10-or-so games into each NHL team's season, whether or not they have been working on them before now, whether or not they had prepared anything in advance (and if they had, they would have plenty of preparations to undo, I'm sure).

There is a problem with the EA rosters where players that are eligible to return to juniors are not able to during BaGM. A player may play up to 9 games before the team has to make a decision if they are going to send a player back to juniors or if he will stay with the team the rest of the year. I imagine that is why EA had to wait this long for the roster update as Taylor Hall just played his 9th game and Nino Neiderietter was just sent back to juniors. Since there has only been one case (Luca Sbisa) where a junior player was actually sent to juniors after playing more than 9 games, I am sure they wanted to be able to make all rosters as accurate as possible. After playing their 10th game a rookie becomes part of the union officially because they are now using a year of their contract.

My only issue is that EA should have said they were waiting for this date and everyone would not have been freaking out about all of the "false" dates. As fot the roster sharing, I do not think that EA even realized what it was doing when it changed the save games. And I don't think they have gotten into the whole roster sharing programming yet, but I may be wrong as I only play NHL. I just chalk that up to a bad programming mistake and everyone is allowed a mistake once in a while.

[savoie2006]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

If I'm not mistaken NCAA Football has the roster share feature. It's the ony one though.

[mkharsh33]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

If I'm not mistaken NCAA Football has the roster share feature. It's the ony one though.

...because the moment they take that away it will be the death blow to that game. nobody wants to play a game in which qb8 throws it to wr80.

and for the time it takes to update them people will decide it's not worth it.

i wish these game programmers understood how important roster sharing is. there are people who would probably purchase the game that might otherwise wouldn't. i'm not a ps3 guys, but i can fully understand how someone who was hoping to use matt's rosters would be very upset. the problem is once you've bought the game you've already put money in EA's pocket...

[HotCarl]

Re: EA roster coming out... NOV 2

Saying it will be out November 2nd is the first date they've given. So they have not missed it. Giving a general statement about it being out in a couple of weeks is not a deadline. I've never been in any situation where saying "it'll be done in a couple of weeks" is considered a deadline. Deadlines are exact dates/times. If you've ever given your project team an actual deadline of "in the next couple of weeks" than you have a very fortunate, lucky project team.

And why is it ludicrous to defend EA on something? I'm sick of this attitude that you have to criticize the gaming companies for everything otherwise you're just a stupid fanboy who doesn't know any better.

Exactly. I, for one, would much rather wait an extra couple of weeks for the final roster moves to be made (guys sent back to juniors, etc.) and get a much more accurate set of rosters rather than have an almost useless roster update rushed out just to placate the impatient masses.

I have no problem calling a gaming company out when I feel that they're in the wrong, but in this instance, EA does not deserve all of the bashing it has received.

[toadiev]

There is a problem with the EA rosters where players that are eligible to return to juniors are not able to during BaGM. A player may play up to 9 games before the team has to make a decision if they are going to send a player back to juniors or if he will stay with the team the rest of the year. I imagine that is why EA had to wait this long for the roster update as Taylor Hall just played his 9th game and Nino Neiderietter was just sent back to juniors. Since there has only been one case (Luca Sbisa) where a junior player was actually sent to juniors after playing more than 9 games, I am sure they wanted to be able to make all rosters as accurate as possible. After playing their 10th game a rookie becomes part of the union officially because they are now using a year of their contract.

My only issue is that EA should have said they were waiting for this date and everyone would not have been freaking out about all of the "false" dates. As fot the roster sharing, I do not think that EA even realized what it was doing when it changed the save games. And I don't think they have gotten into the whole roster sharing programming yet, but I may be wrong as I only play NHL. I just chalk that up to a bad programming mistake and everyone is allowed a mistake once in a while.

Players under 20 years old can be sent to junior at any point. The 10 games only represents the start of their contract. If players are sent back prior to that the team does not lose a year on the contract or a year towards unrestricted free agency.