Instead of me repeating my penalty issues (many other people reporting the same issue) with the game in the impression thread and this is more of a request anyway, decided to post this in the main forum with the hopes some EA reps are monitoring and reading.
It is just crazy that a hockey game doesn't come close to representing the correct number of penalties during a game. Not even close. In most games there is like 1 total penalty called amongst the teams where it should be more on average of 6-7. Maxing out the penalty sliders and playing with other different settings does not seem to help. When I do see a large number of penalties, they are not usually evenly distributed like the CPU taking 5 penalties, while I take 0. I know a couple of people have said they seen some reasonable penalties, but by far the vast majority of us are not seeing that. I also do not want to have to play the game a "certain way" in order to make them happen, especially since I can't control the CPU or my teammates.
PP/PK is a MAJOR part of real life hockey and for it to not be implemented correctly is a huge problem. I am begging that EA take steps to correct this with a patch/tuner by letting the penalty sliders actually work. If I have them maxed out, I should see a ton of them in my game.
I wont start any new threads about this issue since I have said enough already, hopefully others can share in their frustration so this possibly gets seen by EA reps and they understand what kind of huge issue this is for people who want the game to reasonably play like NHL hockey.
The rest of the game is very good, but I would hate for this issue to be the single reason I end up canceling by pre-order