So pls Mods over here do NOT Close it 2.
I absolutly agree what he said. Enjoy the read!
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Subject: Dear EA Sport.

</td> </tr><tr><td class="row1" rowspan="3" style="min-width: 90px;" align="left" valign="top"> Luc Wolfe

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</td><td class="row1" id="post_text_18001628" valign="top"> I've been lucky enough in the past years to get invited to the EA facility and talk with the Dev about the game and how to make it better. There’s a bunch of great guys on the team, and they are all guys with good values. For that I thank you!
Sadly while playing NHL 12, I feel cheated, ashamed, and think my contribution gave nothing to the series. I gave a lot of feedback over the past years, I never really heard a thank you or our ideas been being implied to the game. You see hockey is a great sports, this game isn’t great.
I hear a lot of times the dev team telling the NHL Gaming World to play fair and don’t use the flaws of the game. Now I’m smart enough to know that every game has a flaw and EA, 2K, Midway and all the other video game company makes flaws, we know no company can’t make a perfect product, you can’t please 100% of the customers. Meaning a lot of exploits should of been taken care of 2 games ago.
Although, I see no effort from the development team. I’m also wondering if they are even playing their own game. Like I would feel proud to be working on a title where many hockey fans sitting on their couch, having a beer or a pop have a blast. But this game is a shame to all of us. Year after year we see the exact same thing happening. Don’t even try to say the opposite. Look at the gameplay, to what it is right now, the tuners seems to be rushed, the update has more issues then the previous versions.
I don’t want to be negative person, I try to stay positive as most at the time. I’ve heard from a few guys over EA saying that: guys don’t be negative we won’t take consideration of your feedback”. Well I’m sorry but how can we be positive when we play a game that’s going downhill. You guys will be getting positive feedback when you deserve it, but at this time, you deserve to be facing the music. You give us a game where fans feel abandon.
Remember around 7-8 years ago where EA was on top for the best NHL game, then 2K Sports showed more pride in their product, and they took the lead. Well guess what! I sure hope it happens again!
EA Sports Game Changers:
To be honest with you guys, I have no issue with you. You’ve all earned it to be recognized by the NHL community. Sadly kissing EA’s “you know what” is getting quite old. I know some of you, believe me you are all great person, although some of you ain’t helping the community, development team, the fans in general.
What I think went wrong with the NHL Series? I think by adding many games modes and never fixing the gameplay. You can add as many game mode in a year, but if you don’t touch your gameplay you’ve actually went backwards then progress.
I’m sorry but often at looking at the goals going in, I think, not much change since NHL 07. Yeah I’ll give you this year that on the break aways is harder to score, but it be nice to see the goalie stop a puck from the blue line with no traffic in front. Oh yeah it ends up as a five hole goal too!
By the way the legends was the biggest mistake ever made! Plain stupid, you made yourself looked bad from all the reviewers. You guys, have great ideas, but the choice that this year the biggest improvement was to add overrated copy-paste players is disappointed. Now trust me it's sweet to play as the great one, but the unlockable era, have done it's time. Give us the ability to play them from the start or simply nevermind. I'm sure this feature would of been more appreciated if it was in the first to be announced. Which makes me sad is mostly the cost of that being on to the product where it was so much needed elsewhere.
What does mostly of the NHL gaming fans want to see?
- We all want to see an authentic game where the total of shots might make a difference, meaning a fatigue team for always being in their zone.
- Most hockey games scores are, 2-1, 3-2, 3-1, 4-0 not 9-8, 6-5, 7-3, 11-3 with 12 shots vs 44. Yes I totally understand you might get the odd game where everything works your way, but not all the time, that’s fantasy. We aren’t play football, hockey is a hard game to score points, especially with the talent of today.
- Passing, if there’s something hard in hockey is a tape to tape passing between 3 players, but with this game its either a joke, or the pass doesn’t even go near its receiver.
-Momentum means a lot in hockey, this game has none, no penalty after the wishtle, meaning u can do what ever you want , theirs no penalty, and the good guys aren’t rewarded. Fighting has very few affect unlike the real life.
- Rivalry between teams, well there’s none; I think NHL 2004 had done a better job! (8 years ago)
- Hitting, EA Sports were bragging about their new collision system 2 years ago. Hey I’ll be honest I brag too all of the NHL gaming community they were in for a treat since you guys were doing an awesome job. Today’s it’s a totally different opinion, why does the dekes disable to ability to get hit, that’s where all your cheap goals get score. 1) you can’t hit 2) poke check will end up tripping the opponent 3) poke check will deflect to poke to the opposition stick since it’s a magnet like all previous years.
- Puck Physics: well its sad, puck will go through a crowd, poke check doesn’t even make sense it ALWAYS ends up on a stick, never it will be loose in the play.
- Goalies are live, Nope! It’s awesome you finally made it happen to hit the goalie but sadly, there must be a condition, its either the puck is near him.
- Hockey is fun, this is far from being fun.
-Stop creating new game modes, just stop and focus on gameplay and you’ll see all other game modes be a lot better by not touching them.
What do I want to see from this topic?
1) I don’t want to see this close
2) I’d love to hear from EA Sports directly.
3) I want EA to learn from this so they can continue I mean restart doing a good product to their fans.
I’m not a fan favourite, and I don’t plan too. I don’t kiss anyone “you know what”. I just give my opinion.
I really hope the future for NHL games is better than this!
Sincerely,
Luc Wolfe
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