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Originally Posted by renojedi
Sorry for being so blunt but this does not seem like a serious comment. If they didn't care, it wouldn't come out at all. Hockey is by far a niche sport when compared to American football, baseball, and basketball and of course football/soccer. I saw a comment similar to yours about EA's NHL game on why they didn't put more resources into changes to the game. Someone talked about the numbers of buys vs Madden or EA FC. It was not even close. They also said the developers for Madden have a whole floor while the developers for NHL get a corner of a floor. Corporations apply resources when there is a ROI, they don't do it out of goodwill towards a (niche) audience. That is why a boycott won't work. If 30+% of Madden's audience didn't buy it might result in changes. If 30+% of NHL's audience didn't buy the game, they might just abandon the game altogether.
FHM was always going to be a labor of love for the team. In fact, I remember them saying that they would work on it when not working on OOTP. See if you can find those initial posts to see how hard they worked to get this off the ground. The team has actually grown (slightly) and I believe they also contract out parts of development. So growth has been slow but to say FHM10 wasn't significantly different than FHM2 is, again, not serious.
3 weeks (or whatever) will fly by and when we get there it won't matter that it wasn't this week.
I get the frustration and there are things I wish were different as do others (there is a huge thread for an FHM11 Wishlist if you'd like to see) but I can also be pragmatic enough to realize they are doing the best they can to keep this going including multiple patches based upon player feedback to make each release the best it can be. That of course means less time (in many cases) working on the next version which has a knock on effect. I love this game and hope they keep it going since I have been here since the first version. Is it perfect? No. Will I stop writing about the things I want changed? No. But I also live in the world of "is" not "should be".
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It was 100% serious. And at least EA puts the game out in time. It will be the same thing for me as last year... once the season gets going and my excitement for new games associated with the league passes, I won't buy this, just as I didn't last year. There is a competition out there for people's money for entertainment, FHM just don't seem interested in trying to join the competition.
I had a friend who did buy it last year and shared a copy of the game so eventually I got in and toyed around with it in January or so. But if you think it is a much different game than when it first came out years ago, I don't know what to tell you. It's impossible to not win at least 9 out of every 10 cups after your 4th season of working with and rebuilding a franchise. Sure, you can play in the Belarus league and complete nonsense like that, what a huge drawing factor that is.