NHL 11 Roster Update #2 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[Agent NXS]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Ok lets forget about the equipment for a second a realize all the important NHL team assets that are left out of the AHL this roster update. Im not even talking fringe prospects but blue chip core future NHLers no where to be found. EA has really dropped the ball in the offline franchise aspects of ALL their games in lieu of making the most money they can off micro transactions and the online community.

Its sad, and the franchise/offline demographic is pretty tired of them at this point.

At this point, I'm almost starting to wonder if we should be pointing our fingers at the big wig's within EA who make the hiring/funding decisions within each department. I know that EA Vancouver had some lay-offs within the last few months(EA claimed it was normal seasonal lay-offs), so it's possible that EA's NHL development team didn't/still doesn't have the manpower/funding to fix all of the issues post-release with offline and online modes.

GM mode is broken, the rosters still aren't up to par with what EA claimed they would be, EA's servers are still crap, the playoffs in HUT/EASHL are still having a lot of problems, etc etc etc...and while all this is happening, EA is getting a large revenue increase over NHL 10 because of all the micro-transactions in HUT.

I could understand all of these issues taking a long while to fix if this was still NHL 10, but with NHL 11 having a large increase in revenue because of micro-transactions, you would think that EA could better fund the NHL development team so that these issues could be fixed in a more timely fashion.

[kestrel]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Im not even talking fringe prospects but blue chip core future NHLers no where to be found.

Might we be able to assume for a moment that these players, like the Boston prospect mentioned who is playing for Providence, haven't been made members of the PHPA yet (whatever that process might be). Last year, they mentioned that they couldn't add players to AHL rosters unless they were members of the PHPA. It could simply be that their hands are tied, though it would be nice to hear this from them.

[xx19kilosoldier]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Might we be able to assume for a moment that these players, like the Boston prospect mentioned who is playing for Providence, haven't been made members of the PHPA yet (whatever that process might be). Last year, they mentioned that they couldn't add players to AHL rosters unless they were members of the PHPA. It could simply be that their hands are tied, though it would be nice to hear this from them.

There were still players missing late in the season last year from EA's rosters in the AHL.

I understand the licensing part of the equation, thats why the decision to not allow roster sharing is really a head scratcher. They take the ability away from the community and come out with this, its just not a smart way to handle your consumers what so ever. This coupled with the state of bugs in this game overall and I think some of these sites and reviewers really need to re review this game and give it the 7.5-8.0 rating it deserves.

[blues4life74]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Like I said previously, this isn't a licensing issue. If it were there'd be 1-2 players from each AHL team missing not 6-10 players. 6 of the 8 missing players on Peoria were previously in the game in the CHL! I mean you look at who's missing in this update and you get a list full of surefire future NHL'ers, a lot of whom will make their NHL club this season. Ian Cole is the biggest one missing in the Blues organization. And then you have players like Jacob Markstrom, Linus Omark, Tyler Cuma, Kyle Beach, Cody Hodgson, etc etc ALL missing. So basically if your team has a top prospect in the AHL, don't expect him to be in this update. It's absolutely atrocious that we waited 60+ days for opening night rosters and we get this garbage.

[kestrel]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Like I said previously, this isn't a licensing issue. If it were there'd be 1-2 players from each AHL team missing not 6-10 players. 6 of the 8 missing players on Peoria were previously in the game in the CHL!

Okay, so they were in the game as part of the CHL. The CHL is three amateur leagues, no licensing needed. The AHL is a professional league with its own players union (PHPA), and AHL players need to be members of the PHPA to be in the game. Former CHL players that are new to the AHL may not yet be members of the PHPA, hence not yet in the game (or not now in the game). Again, it would be nice to hear this from EA, and perhaps they'll say as much in that blog post regarding the roster update that was promised.

[blues4life74]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

I'm very anxious to read this upcoming blog. But knowing EA, it'll be delayed for about two months and when it comes out there will be huge chunks of paragraphs missing and random words inserted everywhere.

[blues4life74]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Okay, so they were in the game as part of the CHL. The CHL is three amateur leagues, no licensing needed. The AHL is a professional league with its own players union (PHPA), and AHL players need to be members of the PHPA to be in the game. Former CHL players that are new to the AHL may not yet be members of the PHPA, hence not yet in the game (or not now in the game). Again, it would be nice to hear this from EA, and perhaps they'll say as much in that blog post regarding the roster update that was promised.

Ya but what about the random players that have been added to AHL teams just to fill out the rosters?? I.E. Matt Zaba on Peoria

[bigpun23]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Yeah if a team is over the cap or has too many players, the cpu will automatically adjust those rosters unless you play with the cap off.

i did turn off salary cap and the rosters still mess up unless i play exhibitiion

[habs27]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

i did turn off salary cap and the rosters still mess up unless i play exhibitiion

You gotta make sure you only have 23 players on your roster, send down scratched players until you reach 23 or less.

[canucksss]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

im not really into the color or type of equipments each player is using (sorry if this may offend some of you), but what im disgusted about this roster updates is that, how come, EA did a marvelous job on releasing current roster update for season 2010-11 of their NBA LIVE 2010????

I dont know if Im just missing it, but in the Manitoba Moose roster, I cant see Cody Hodgson. WHY IS THAT???? i mean this kind of GLARING MISTAKE is HORRIBLE.

[Gangrel]

Last year in a roster blog they had a video explaining how the licensing worked. They should repost it.

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[Blueshockey6]

Re: NHL 11 Rosters Arrive Tuesday, November 2nd

Last year in a roster blog they had a video explaining how the licensing worked. They should repost it.

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Here ya go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxgdyO3Khs&feature=player_embedded

[patsfan188]

I think Skinner was a 68 last time. Can someone tell me what his rating is now? Im stuck doing this dumb XBOX Live update it's been downloading for like 30 minutes now. : (

[kingcrumb]

Is there gonna be a gameplay patch?

Thanks

[savoie2006]

Re: NHL 11 Roster Update #2 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

Is there gonna be a gameplay patch?

Thanks

Yes there is, hopefully to be released Nov. 9