How many are using GM Connected?

[GlennN]

As a strictly offline franschise gamer, I was curious how many of you folks are using GM Connected versus BeAGM mode. Since I don't play online, I don't have XBox Gold (and can't use GM Connected even for single player). This leaves me only with BeAGM. Do any of my fellow offline gamers have XBox Gold just to do GM Connected solo?

[Reiny09]

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Not sure if 360 is any different but the servers for PS3 GMC are awful. Games get dropped on a regular basis. Takes about 3 minutes just to get from the NHL home menu into the league and navigating the league menus takes forever. There is no way I would ever use GMC to play solo when I have the BaGM option.

[Taku]

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I play both, GM Connected in a league with 30 players. Its great fun, we are playing on Superstar/normal settings which are not bad. There's just not enough fatigue on players...

[kyussmanchu]

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I was playing GM connected but the constant game crashes, laggy menus and lack of options have led me to just give up. BeAGM it is.

[savoie2006]

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Online sucks, if not for the people that play, then the lag and deathly slow menus. BAGM sucks because of poor Cpu GM's, which is if you go and look basically every team wants the same thing . The GM brain is hardly modeled after each team that's for sure.

[shogunofharlem3]

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My 4 buddies and I have been itching for an online franchise since we've all gotten old, married, kids, moved away from the neighborhood block.

We play on 360 and it is working out well for what we want to do.

Now, as the GM (they are all "players" and can't make moves, we started off with ideas but......), I don't bother with the trade screens or anything because they just take WAY too long to load.

The other thing is, if I see we have 1 game left in a "block" I will play it solo or sim it, because, if I get the gang together, and need to advance to next block it takes a good 10 minutes before it is ready!

That is a lot of waiting and beer drinking and babies crying (not us, proper babies, in headsets to make a point).

Otherwise, as hockey goes, we enjoy it.

[NateAndStuff]

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I run a GM Connected league with my girlfriend, my dad, and I all controlling separate teams. The menus take forever to get through but we've never dealt with any game drops or anything like that. We had a game once that was a little laggy but it only happened once.

There are a lot of things that I hope they fix with the mode for next year. We had to turn waivers off because anytime your team has an injury or a player returns from an injury (no matter how minor it is), the CPU will randomly use best rosters and send players down, bring others up, change your lines all around and it's pretty annoying. My dad lost his 2nd best Dman because the CPU felt like sending him through waivers for no reason.

Another terrible thing about it is the amount of time I've sat there staring at the Advancing the Period screen. As someone else has already said in this thread, it takes about ten minutes to advance any given period. This gets about a million times worse in the offseason. Last Friday, we wrapped up Year 1 and I started advancing through the offseason that night. I eventually went to bed in the middle of it and then spent SEVEN HOURS the next day advancing through all of the pointless offseason periods. There's a prep for draft period, a draft period, prep for resign phase, resign players day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5, sign free agents day 1, day 2, 2 weeks, 2 weeks, 2 weeks, 2 weeks, then there's the preseason blocks where no games are played because there are no preseason games. I don't understand why they couldn't have condensed the entire process a bit and cut down on the advancing times because if you think advancing in the regular season is bad, the offseason takes at least 3 times as long for each advancement.

The mode is really fun besides those things though. I love playing against my dad and girlfriend and it's awesome to see how our team's shape up and perform throughout an 82 game season. I just hope that EA gives this mode a little attention next year and some of this crap is fixed.

[BigH2k6]

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I am really disappointed by the fact that one gamertag cannot control more than one team. It makes it impossible to have a GM connected with 2 people where you want to play with different team everytime. I guess it could be possible on the PS3 as PS online is free and several gamer tags could be created. But not on Xbox without having to pay for extra live memberships.

I think 2K had the right idea in NHL2k10 where you could invite anyone at anytime in any mode tomjoin a game online, including franchise.

The game is useless for me and it's going back to EB for a trade in. Had it a week.

[kerosene31]

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A few friends of mine were big into this mode in the NCAA football game and convinced me to try it. There are only 4 of us total, so 26 teams are still CPU controlled anyway. We randomly generated rosters which made things even more interesting.

I detest playing online against anyone I don't know, but if you can get some friends together who just want to have fun we're really enjoying it.

[Vikes1]

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Off-line BEAGM for me.

I have nothing against on-line play. But I guess I just enjoy the peace and quite of my own little world of the NHL. And to be able to do things at my own pace.

[Zuke]

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? for you guys i called up Ryan Murray put him in my second line for D but he never comes in when i play i have everything on default can anyone help me

[NateAndStuff]

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? for you guys i called up Ryan Murray put him in my second line for D but he never comes in when i play i have everything on default can anyone help me

Is this BaGM or GM connected? If it's GMC, check your lines again. Like I said in my post, EVERY time you make a trade, sign a free agent, someone gets injured or comes back from injury, the game completely changes your rosters/lines.

[Zuke]

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Is this BaGM or GM connected? If it's GMC, check your lines again. Like I said in my post, EVERY time you make a trade, sign a free agent, someone gets injured or comes back from injury, the game completely changes your rosters/lines.

i did they put 1 of my 3rd line guys out with my 2nd

Murray does come in sometimes

[geisterhome]

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the major problem for me with any kinds of online leagues is that they dont produce real life like results, a weak team with a skilled human gm can dominate the league and a great team controlled by a less skilled player can sit at the bottom of the table despite all thier star power. that takes away a lot from the feeling of actually having my personal nhl going. its more a competition btwn gamers and nothing more, if i lose against e.g. carolina in online cm controlled by a human player it doesnt feel like i just lost an nhl match against the hurricanes but rather against the guy on my xbl friendlist who controls that franchise. they could very well just have his gamer tag on thier jersey. another problem with an online gm connected with many members is that its very difficult to i would say impossible to always find a time when yourself and your oponent have time to play. that results in simulated games which is a real killer for me.
all that doesnt only go for nhl 13 but for any sports game which features an online career mode.

[Devmcdonnell]

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the major problem for me with any kinds of online leagues is that they dont produce real life like results, a weak team with a skilled human gm can dominate the league and a great team controlled by a less skilled player can sit at the bottom of the table despite all thier star power. that takes away a lot from the feeling of actually having my personal nhl going. its more a competition btwn gamers and nothing more, if i lose against e.g. carolina in online cm controlled by a human player it doesnt feel like i just lost an nhl match against the hurricanes but rather against the guy on my xbl friendlist who controls that franchise. they could very well just have his gamer tag on thier jersey. another problem with an online gm connected with many members is that its very difficult to i would say impossible to always find a time when yourself and your oponent have time to play. that results in simulated games which is a real killer for me.
all that doesnt only go for nhl 13 but for any sports game which features an online career mode.

This is why it's called GM Connected. I run a league with 15 other GMs and I have had this discussion with them. My league is a SIM only league. Games are not to be played unless both teams consent to a match up. The reason for this is exactly what you stated, it comes down to the skill of the gamer, not the players on the team. To get the most authentic experience, we sim our season. There were some complaints at first, but again, the mode is called GM Connected. The point is to compete for the best GM not the best online gamer. There are plenty of other modes in NHL 13 that you can play to determine that.