NHL Community Committee

[mikeymayhem]

Im happy I made it, we now have a shot at having two NHL revamp guys make it wooo.

[EASPORTSNHL]

Thanks again everyone for participating!

We have our two winners by the majority of votes:

Oohwayy
utp102

Congrats! We will be in touch soon!

Cheers,
EA NHL Team

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by EASPORTSNHL

Thanks again everyone for participating! We have our two winners by the majority of votes: Oohwayy utp102 Congrats! We will be in touch soon! Cheers, EA NHL Team

Look, no offense, I had no idea who these posters were so I looked it up. They have three total posts combined on these boards. How is this supposed to represent the top 2 fans from the OS community? I've been around these boards in one form or another since 2002, and can recall a number of obscure users (sportsmats anyone), but these users' exploits in this community elude me.

I'm not saying the voting has been, uh, fiddled with, but let's be real here.

Can we please just send a revamped guy, bigwill33, and FlyingFinn or something?

[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

Look, no offense, I had no idea who these posters were so I looked it up. They have three total posts combined on these boards. How is this supposed to represent the top 2 fans from the OS community? I've been around these boards in one form or another since 2002, and can recall a number of obscure users (sportsmats anyone), but these users' exploits in this community elude me. I'm not saying the voting has been, uh, fiddled with, but let's be real here. Can we please just send a revamped guy, bigwill33, and FlyingFinn or something?

Maybe I'm reaching here.. but if you put both of their posts side by side, something seems fishy to me.. they both read the same, just different wording.

Can someone honestly tell me these two posters who I can't find any posting on the NHL forums beat out some of these vets at OS who are here posting each and every year on the NHL series?

[TheKid40]

If a revamped guy doesn't make the EA NHL Team, I'm going to be very disappointed. I've been checking this forum for the past 2 years or so and only recently decided to become a member of Operation Sports, and I have seen firsthand the amount of work and dedication all of the workers of the revamped team put in. Not sure what happened around the EASHL voting since I only just realized this thread, but in the future Simple Mathematics and the rest of the Revamped Team will have my vote for sure.

[bad_philanthropy]

Yeah, so it seems like Oohwayy and utp102 are buddies and just rigged the survey. Obviously they're not members of the OS community in any way. I'm fine if they want to get selected through the EA forums, but not to represent this community.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOohwayy/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/UTP102/videos

Can we just conduct our own survey with the mods here at OS?

[boxers]

Thanks for bringing this up. I just checked one of the reps and he joined in NOV 2014! I don't play EASHL but man is that a slap in the face to the OS community. Why bother posting this on here and saying that you are looking for someone to represent this community if you are going to pick 2 random guys with a Youtube channel.

I'm not saying that they aren't qualified/capable to provide useful input into improving EASHL. But for a team that has already lost a lot of points with this community, it seems like a poor idea to once again screw them.

I really did believe that the reason NHL 15 was so bad was due to a lack of resources. But now I'm starting to think it is much more likely to have been a MISallocation of resources due to bad leadership at the top.

If you know that you don't have the resources, don't try to bite off more than you can chew. If you want to rebuild your connection with the OS community, don't take 2 obviously unrepresentative representatives. Bad form EANHL, bad form.

/rant

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

Look, no offense, I had no idea who these posters were so I looked it up. They have three total posts combined on these boards. How is this supposed to represent the top 2 fans from the OS community? I've been around these boards in one form or another since 2002, and can recall a number of obscure users (sportsmats anyone), but these users' exploits in this community elude me. I'm not saying the voting has been, uh, fiddled with, but let's be real here. Can we please just send a revamped guy, bigwill33, and FlyingFinn or something?

[AdamJones113]

EA, frankly I am sickened by your choice of "OS members." In my mind, and as bad_philanthropy and boxers said, they are not members of the community.

It seems they are good friends. That may or may not be irrelevant—had I any confidence in their ability (said confidence could have been gained by actually posting well on this forum) this friendship would have been a good thing in my opinion—but it's something to keep in mind.

utp is focused on HUT. His application is ridden with contradictions, for example: "I would like to influence the competitive side of the game mode" but then closing with "I would like to just generally help make the game more fun for the casual user." I think the two are very different things and would require an entirely different server, further gashing expenses. And if the youtube part is the concern, the EA Forums filled that quota... and need I mention Johnny Superbman?

Oohwayy is also a youtuber. Again, EA Forums. While I have no quarrel with his application, I'm sure I would have endorsed it had he actually been a consistent OS member—which he is not, having ONE POST (as does utp) if we discount his double-post in this thread!

I've said my piece. I think I'm speaking for the most of the diehards here when pointing out these problems and really suggesting you add bigwill33 and/or a revamped guy as well. To not do so would be to incredibly diminish OS members' hope.