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Originally Posted by fireholder
I mean the onslaught of "unplayable" comments because some things dont work as well as they should. Actual crashes are a slightly different matter.
People will spout about how historical or custom should have never been done and the game should be focused on more. But that would have just meant that entire markets of users wouldn't have been able to use the game at all for their playstyle.
some things that should work may not, and some may be absent or still in development. games are never perfect, particularly sports, elsewise no one would bother purchasing the next year's iteration. But the negative Nancies of the community seem to think the option was simple: do less features and focus more on the core game, or try a much wider approach (which is how it went).
Either way, many users aren't going to be able to do exactly what they want. either a few functions are on the wonky side early on, or we have a 1-league game that isolates anyone who wants to play a league other than the NHL.
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Targeting a wide audience is fine and makes sense, but what you have now is three modes and none of them is working properly. Yes - I'll freely use that word - the game is unplayable. You can probably the first season just fine, but you will run into a wall sooner or later and you will give up because the game in its current state is simply annoying (trades, contracts, drafts).
I've played EHM since the freeware, too, just like you. I know about the bugs in the SI era. The attribute decline bug was horrendous -- and it wasn't pretty in the forums. But all other versions of EHM were at least playable, despite its bugs.
Now, here I've been reading comments like "relax, this is just a beta" for months now and I'm tired of it. The same guys now say "relax, it's the first release, there will be patches". Of course, there will be patches. But that's the least you can expect.
I started a single savegame with the release build so far: a historical game in the 70s and I just let it run. I had to see Dennis Hextall posting two 100 point seasons. But I can ignore that. Then, fourth season. Crash. I don't know why and the savegame is now corrupted, can't be loaded anymore.