The biggest problem with offline modes is the lack of disparity between players.
EA sort of kind of gave lip service to it by bringing down the overalls of players, but there is still no real discrepancy between the 200 guys in the league who are between 82 and 87.
Watching Hedman and Setoguchi sit for an entire year as unsigned RFAs because they are demanding 6.6 million a year and no one can afford to re-sign or offersheet them is ri-damn-diculous, and it would take 1 season of simming for the testers to see.
I find it hard to give critiques of things I view as freakin' obvious.
It's obvious to me that aside from the physics, the only thing that EA spent time on developing was HUD and EASHL boosts.
Frankly, if 2k was to put a serious effort into developing an NHL game that had a competent GM mode, I'd give it serious consideration.
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