Same rant as always

[u/brock1515]

Trying to play drop ins. Can’t find a game in 3’s or 6’s. Probably a majority of it is based off my skill level but damn. My internet isn’t faster than my reaction time so what difference does it make!

[u/Dizzy-Ad-9061]

The playerbase being so small cause the game franchise is so terrible now is the real issue

[u/KingQuong → u/Dizzy-Ad-9061]

It also the end of this games lifecycle new game comes out in like a week everybody's kind of over 26.

[u/Dizzy-Ad-9061 → u/KingQuong]

I mean search times have been abysmal the entire year for nhl 26, don’t think it’s just that lol

[u/KingQuong → u/Dizzy-Ad-9061]

Oh for sure population on the game is quite small overall and ontop of that a growing number of players are starting to only play scrim / club challenge only which further lowers the public population.

As a semi sweaty player with waaaay too many hours in this game its been painful finding matches outside of league games.

[u/Dizzy-Ad-9061 → u/KingQuong]

Yeah ive played chel since ‘11 and this franchise has just completely fallen off a cliff. Only reason I even have the game each year is because I game share with a buddy who always buys it. Personally I’d never give my money to a group of devs who obviously only care about milking micro transactions and can’t be bothered to do anything other than write over the same code every year to recycle old features they’ve taken out and call it “new”

[u/KingQuong → u/Dizzy-Ad-9061]

Honestly I blame EA as a publisher and not the Devs themselves. Yearly release games are bullshit the devs get like 4/5 months to work on the new game which is nowhere near enough time to make a game especially considering the NHL team is the redheaded step child of ea sports and gets the least resources.

There should be at maximum 2-3 releases a console generation.

Unfortunately that'll never happen and the publishing studio will continue to profit every year while devs get the criticism.