Originally Posted by batdad
I am afraid I do not like this. Teams always misvalue their players, and think too highly or too little of them. Having the maxed out top level scouting, I hope does not mean that we will have an "absolutely perfect" view of what our own contracted players can do in this game.
Now other things seemed to have been improved which is great, but I hope the graphics person gets some time on this game before the match engine patch, so that this absolutely amateur UI can be repaired and this game can have a first impression that has a wow factor, not a blah factor.
And before everyone jumps on me for this, sure the game has improved. But if you go back and look...there I was calling for the UI to be repaired on day one along with what...a ton of very very experienced Hockey Manager and other Management sim people such as:
archibalduk--anyone give him any credit for knowing what he is talking about?
Alessandro--yeah, think he has a clue even though sometimes we disagree.
and several others, I believe including several really old timers that I remember from the SI Boards such as smetana.
I mean archi and alessandro are on the testing team. Not sure who else is, but I am pretty sure that these super experienced and well informed people should be listened to by the developers, and I hope they have been and are being listened to.
Other than the match engine, the #1 priority to make this game good and successful now....FIXING THE UI.
archi made a monster post about it way back when (I am not going to look for it) and I read every word of it. But funny enough Sebastien and Jeff...nothing commented so cannot even be sure it was read by the development team.
Sebastien and Jeff-if there are plans to rework the UI great, but lets get it done. IT is really clunky and blah right now.
again, so everyone gets it, and does not come yelling at me....this is something that has been asked for from day 1. It is a major thing, not a tiny little fringe thing like expansion, or custom leagues, or an add on like online.
THe look of the game right from the get go, scares people off of it. It is like going to a car store and seeing a rusty old clunker with dents and dings all over it, being advertised as a new car.
I really hold out hope for this game, but I will not touch it again until the UI is fixed and looks decent, and works simply and not ridiculously difficult and finicky. I mean if I have to change my tactics every single game to the same thing, and there is no save tactics...ugh.
I will not look at buying the next game either until I know the UI is good. And the opinions I will trust (should they continue with the game themselves) are the guys who have been working on EHM since what 2000? 1999? in some way shape or form, and have put their personal time into FHM as well.
HOpefully they will be listened to and things with the UI will come along.
Please note...somewhere in this I may have typed AI...everywhere I typed AI please read as UI.
Good luck to all, and hope this game comes around
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