I look back fondly on the games of years past. The early skill stick era and the EASHL. The good times we had with the fatas. And when there would be half a dozen different threads active related to the game and the leagues that people had going. Taking the day off work for release day and playing all day long. Heck I remember one year driving around the Quad Cities looking for the game at midnight so I could go home and play with Joborule who had his copy early since he was an EA mod and part of teh gamechanger program they had.
Now its a smattering of tepid applause as few seem left that care. As many have noted, its amazing how the development team still has jobs.
One thing though about the idea of switching to an alternating year calendar.... Didn't they take an entire extra year off from next gen and then proceed to release a pretty dismal game? Memory may be fuzzy, but my recollection was even with tons of extra time, they still put out a stinker.
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