[Caniac94]

Quote: Originally Posted by Moose24x

Unless you're suggesting they'll never improve the actual hockey portion of the game in meaningful ways, I don't know why you'd say I'll "obviously never" be happy. They've added a lot of fluff that doesn't have anything to do with playing hockey. If they said they had done just ONE out of: totally revamped player ratings to have great separation, introduced a defensive skill stick, added different skating styles so that not all players look and act the same, totally revamped player development so that players improve/decline more realistically over a long career, totally revamped scouting and the annual draft, totally revamped the trade deadline or annual free agency, I would be posting about how excited I am. They didn't do any of these things that are relevant to hockey. They've added hot dog prices. Why do I care about the team's financials and keeping the owners happy? I care about building and managing a winner ON THE ICE. I don't care about what we pay our equipment manager.

This is one thing that annoys me. EA have put all this time and effort into little things that I'll quickly get bored with. Be it visual elements like the crowd or the arena (which we don't really see in detail anyway) or having to manage little finances or dealong with player morale. Come to think of it there seems to be little to no attention payed to what's actually happening on the ice. Don't get me wrong, the things mentioned above are nice for their respective game modes but please, please get the gameplay down FIRST then incorporate more features into game modes. Gameplay is the most important thing here and it has been the same for years. Player separation is the biggest thing for me. I wish they could focus on that at least and I'd be happy.