Dump' N' Cheese: Shady Morals in EASHL

[JMBOO]

Ehh. First, I always expect that people will do what they want all the time in the anonymous online world. If you choose to ignore this basic rule, then, you might as well play offline only, since people will always find the easiest way to do things and that is Da Truff. Honestly, just enjoy the times when you get good games and realize that unless the opponent is sitting right next to you, be prepared.

[UwantRadie]

if you CHEAT and use boost packs and cartoonish equipment, you should cut your testicles off.. we need to make sure you dont pass your genes and loose morals onto another generation...

If you actually paid money to cheat.. then you should just eat a bullet and make the world a better place.

I'll say it time and again.. EA took what could have been THE SINGLE BEST MODE IN ALL OF SPORTS GAMES and they encouraged cheating... unbelievable.

There needs to be a an option to label yourself a "clean" team that doesnt use this sort of tomfoolery. Then other clean teams can choose to only play against verified non-cheats.

[Trevelyan]

Quote: Originally Posted by milesizdead

I have to disagree to some extent, I don´t think age is in any way an excuse Even a 16 year old knows what they´re doing if they´re playing dirty. Usually they take pride in it if you msg them after the game. And i agree with EA´s role, hopefully the move to physics based game will remove most of the opportunities to cheese...But we do need a quicker response fro EA, whatever the problem is.

I was pretty much just tossing the age thing in there as an example, I agree with you it has nothing to do with age.

I just think its a little embarrassing for EA that they have bugs in the game that everyone knows about who has either been playing the game for a year, or for a day, because thats how often they pop up.

I don't know what goes on at a development studio, what the bosses delegate to the employees, etc etc, all I can say is as someone who designs websites and fixes computers, it drives me insane when a web page isn't working correctly, or a problem pops up on a computer that I just finished working on. To me, its a pride issue, my work reflects back on me.

[JMBOO]

Really though, find me an online game with a leaderboard that does not have glitches and exploits in the game. Seriously. Make a list of them, as, I doubt you could name 10.

I do not think anyone could even come up with 2.

[Trevelyan]

I agree with you, but the difference is some developers will keep rolling out patches, and as is the case with pretty much every sports game, you get one, maybe two patches, and thats it, you're screwed.

Look at Gears 2, 6 patches. MW2 has 2 or 3, and another one is coming. Would we prefer to have 1 patch and all the problems are fixed? Of course, but thats not the world we live in.

[acidraindrops08]

Quote: Originally Posted by onlybygrace

Besides the fact that I'm a big franchise nut, it's stories like this that have caused me to avoid the online aspect of NHL 10.

Yes, I know it can be rough, but this is by far the best gameplay experience you'll find in a sports video game. Nothing comes close to a legit game of NHL 6v6.

[JMBOO]

6v6 is definitely the way the devs intended this game to be played online, as you can't glitch a human goalie.

True on the patches, although, the games you mentioned are not year to year, releases, so, they should have multiple patches.

Also, patching is not just as simple as a company seeing something that needs to be fixed and patching it. The company has to get it approved by Sony/Microsoft and then they can release the patch. This is where a yearly release suffers and why you usually only get 1 or 2 patches for titles such as this.

At least one good thing for NHL is that the game has a fairly in-depth tuner set which the devs can change at any time and do not have to wait for the OK from Sony/Microsoft. I actually think they made 1 patch and 3 or 4 tuner set changes, which is really not bad if you think about it.

[milesizdead]

Yup, new tuners help a lot.
The one in January practically removed the toedrag, or at least made it a lot less efficient...