NHL 11 Roster Update #2 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[TNKNGM]

It looks like every goalie with Vaughn V4 pads has a black stripe down the outer front of the pad.

UGH!!!!

[tinpanalley]

I can not believe we're talking about a stripe on the side of goalie pads and how that's not authentic. All the power to you guys, but I just can't believe that's what's being discussed.

[Fiddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by tinpanalley

I can not believe we're talking about a stripe on the side of goalie pads and how that's not authentic. All the power to you guys, but I just can't believe that's what's being discussed.

ea showed off all the new goalie equipment this year, at the very least they could of got the NHL goalies correct out the gate.

[crazycanook]

Have to agree. God, so the goalie has a black stripe.. yeesh.

I would love to see exactly how much you guys actually look at that. I mean aren't you playing the game?

I may get like a 3 second look every game at a goalie.

Oh well, to each his own I guess.

[Fiddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by crazycanook

Have to agree. God, so the goalie has a black stripe.. yeesh. I would love to see exactly how much you guys actually look at that. I mean aren't you playing the game? I may get like a 3 second look every game at a goalie. Oh well, to each his own I guess.

yes, to each their own.. but, ea markets the game as the most realistic representation of the NHL. so when they fail to make the goalies look 100% realistic, they fail..

[xx19kilosoldier]

Quote: Originally Posted by crazycanook

Have to agree. God, so the goalie has a black stripe.. yeesh. I would love to see exactly how much you guys actually look at that. I mean aren't you playing the game? I may get like a 3 second look every game at a goalie. Oh well, to each his own I guess.

Ok lets forget about the equipment for a second a realize all the important NHL team assets that are left out of the AHL this roster update. Im not even talking fringe prospects but blue chip core future NHLers no where to be found. EA has really dropped the ball in the offline franchise aspects of ALL their games in lieu of making the most money they can off micro transactions and the online community.

Its sad, and the franchise/offline demographic is pretty tired of them at this point.

[Agent NXS]

Quote: Originally Posted by xx19kilosoldier

Ok lets forget about the equipment for a second a realize all the important NHL team assets that are left out of the AHL this roster update. Im not even talking fringe prospects but blue chip core future NHLers no where to be found. EA has really dropped the ball in the offline franchise aspects of ALL their games in lieu of making the most money they can off micro transactions and the online community. Its sad, and the franchise/offline demographic is pretty tired of them at this point.

At this point, I'm almost starting to wonder if we should be pointing our fingers at the big wig's within EA who make the hiring/funding decisions within each department. I know that EA Vancouver had some lay-offs within the last few months(EA claimed it was normal seasonal lay-offs), so it's possible that EA's NHL development team didn't/still doesn't have the manpower/funding to fix all of the issues post-release with offline and online modes.

GM mode is broken, the rosters still aren't up to par with what EA claimed they would be, EA's servers are still crap, the playoffs in HUT/EASHL are still having a lot of problems, etc etc etc...and while all this is happening, EA is getting a large revenue increase over NHL 10 because of all the micro-transactions in HUT.

I could understand all of these issues taking a long while to fix if this was still NHL 10, but with NHL 11 having a large increase in revenue because of micro-transactions, you would think that EA could better fund the NHL development team so that these issues could be fixed in a more timely fashion.

[kestrel]

Quote: Originally Posted by xx19kilosoldier

Im not even talking fringe prospects but blue chip core future NHLers no where to be found.

Might we be able to assume for a moment that these players, like the Boston prospect mentioned who is playing for Providence, haven't been made members of the PHPA yet (whatever that process might be). Last year, they mentioned that they couldn't add players to AHL rosters unless they were members of the PHPA. It could simply be that their hands are tied, though it would be nice to hear this from them.