Electronic Arts NHL 18

The NHL series came out in 1993

And by no means was it any where close to NHL18

Simple 2D rendering and No Online features

I believe the NHL series took off around NHL95 when EA introduced Season Mode along with Trade Players and Free Agents

Now us simulated RPG sports gamers had the opportunity to build control and develope our favorite teams

BTW there were no roster updates then...we devoted gamers kept up on changes throughout the season by simply following TSN or The Hockey News .

Also Create Player was introduced

"One of the greatest introductions in my opinion to Simulated Sporting Games.

The newest features we'd get to experience year by year was either expansion teams, new jerseys, or simply better evolution of graphics ..plain and simple roster changes was the basis of a new annual game

Then 3D gaming came for front.

New systems like Sega CD and OH YES ELECTRONIC SPORTS PC

THE REASON WE HAVE MODERN CONSOLES TODAY PERIOD

THE PC BABY (&your precious Internet gaming)

We gamers now had the amazing ability to take a simplistic game and watch it evolve without the hindering 32 bit Rendering. Now 64 bit plus!

Us serious about simulation and authenticity were able to create Rosters ...Save them and publically share them to Forums where other gamers would download and save them to their games Directory

Yes EA we invented Roster Updates and we were way better and efficient than your monthly Roster Updates (which are constantly wrong)

Season Mode Became Be A GM

Now us simulated gamers were able to evolve and develope Teams annually up to 25 years.

Off season and NHL Draft came to the scene

I believe the only type of online gaming was the 1vs1 via local

There were a lot of good Cult hockey forums and sharing websites

That are in fact still active even though EA has basically removed all our freedoms with Code securities

Ie .sav data files

Eliminating Roster Sharing and roster updates VIA USB

Eliminating the NHL series on PC was & getting into bed exclusive with Sony and Xbox (2 different logic coding (Linux vs DOS) https://sites.google.com/site/nhlrosters/

https://forums.operationsports.com/forums/ea-sports-nhl-last-gen-rosters/365008-petrpucks-ps3-roster.html

http://www.ultimatehockey.info/rosterdownloads

http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?/topic/18108-nhl-98-2017-18/

Today

Franchise Mode gets very little attention

YES EA ADDED EXPANSION MODE

IT is a rehash of NHL99

Here's the issue

The 32 expansion uses the same Roster Time as Vegas used ie pre-July 31st

Therefore if we start a 32 team franchise mode...The rosters are out of date...

ie jagr not on Calgary

Nico not in NJ

Pickard not on Toronto

The Scouting Assignment Tool does not even work! And it been an issue for over 5 years. YES the scouting platform that's New and Improved is literally the exact same.

Try this EA SPORTS

PRESS SCOUTING ASSIGNMENT

SELECT OHL, SELECT 1 MONTH DURATION ON FORWARDS

SIMULATE THE CALENDAR FOR EXACTLY ONE MONTH LESS A DAY. RETURN TO SCOUTING ASSIGNMENTS. now one would expect the Scouting to be in OHL and have some information regarding FORWARDS . But no the scouted percentage is still 3% and my scout is currently in the Swedish Elite League with zero information as well. .

This has been going on now for 5 years EA.

Constant error codes

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScoobyRooney86/status/911751887015301121

BTW a fellow gamer helped me

EA has never responded

THE FACT YOUR ORIGINAL CULT FOLLOWERS

GENERATION X

NOT GENERATION Z/Y

HAVE BEEN BEGGING FOR CLASSIC ROSTERS FOR 10 YEARS

AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN PLAY THEM NOW IS BY PLAYING ONLINE HUT ...IE COINS

DO YOU REALIZE that you EA prohibited us from making these players because of rights and likeness and now that they have licensing your exploiting online SALES

They're names aren't even in Play by Play for OFFLINE MODE ...THEY'RE FACES AND LIKENESSES ARE NOT IN THE CREATED PLAYER DATABASE

PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY WHEN I PAY $90 DOLLARS, WHY CAN NOT LEGENDS IN HUT, BE IN LEGENDS ROSTERS ?

WHY DO I AS A CUSTOMER HAVE TO PAY TO PLAY ONLINE TO ACHIEVE LEGENDS & WHEN I DO PURCHASE THEM, THEY ARE NOT IN THE OFFLINE ROSTERS DATABASES?

Please fix the systematic Problems of the CORE of the game .. Spend your social media budget on fixing Software and Logic Errors

& PLEASE STOP CATERING ONLINE

YOUR GAME IS NOTHING WITHOUT ITS ORIGINAL FAN BASE

YOUR ORIGINAL FAN BASE ARE RPG SIMULATE FANS

NOT ONLINE TRUST FUND ARCADE GAMERS

STOP EXPLOITING ONLINE HUT

ITS A $90 GAME AND YOU WANT US MIDDLE CLASS TO PAY FOR WHAT WE ALREADY PAID FOR?