I think it's expectations. This game would be considered the greatest sports game of all time if NHL 08-NHL 10 were crap, but they were pretty amazing games as well, so expectations were great going in. When someone just meets expectations, it doesn't matter how high those expectations were, it's only OK. It irks me to see the developers called lazy when it's apparent how much hard work and innovative thinking went into making these games.
No one is trying to pull one over on the hockey gaming community. There will be kinks in the AI that make the game unrealistic as the programming behind this game must be extremely difficult. The games are much better than they were ten years ago, and will be much better ten years from now.
Maybe some of you aren't enjoying the game because you aren't very good at it. Instead of realizing that, and either living with this slight against your ego, or working on your game to get better, you just pout and call everyone else cheaters. I don't play Halo because I suck and it's no fun always losing, so if that's your reason, that's very legitimate, but don't blame other players for your own inadequacies.
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