Franchise Mode Sucks - NHL 24

They need a complete overhaul. nothing works. What EA doesn't understand : making good franchise mode will bring fans from others sports.

I love GM mode, even by how shitty it is , I couldn’t imagine how much fun I would have if they would actually put effort into it. It would be so awesome

Franchise mode is stuck in a hamster wheel, they need a massive overhaul, not just to the offline modes, but to EA Sports as a whole

EA spent time developing the ability to manage hot dog prices and upgrade the parking lot. I don't have any hope they'll ever take the game mode seriously.

Despite the lack of features and improvements, Johnny's GM mode commentary's still go hard even after years of watching!

EA ruining franchise mode in yet another sports game

Ive went back to NHL 12 for this year. Its crazy how much better the sim is in a game thats over 10 years old

Could you imagine custom draft classes in NHL? I'd never put the game down.

Who else would like to see John play an older nhl gm mode. Just on stream. Nhl 13 gm mode was a masterpiece

Amen, Franchise mode has always been my fav mode but the level of neglect by EA in recent years has ruined it. If anything there are more glitches than last year's game.

You're 100% correct. I got so sad thinking about what NHL could be if they offered all the same features 2k has lmao. It'd literally be my favorite game of all time and I'd never get tired of playing it. Unfortunately, I don't think EA will ever implement these changes. At this point, I wish someone would just mod the game so it worked the way I wanted. I'd actually pay somebody to do it.

Says a lot about Johnny still being able to give us great GM mode commentaries throughout the years with such a subpar game.

Brooo! If I could go back and relive the wings dynasty of 90’s and 2000’s I’d never put the game down. That would be such a phenomenal addition

don't know if anyones mentioned it yet but I love what Tougie's been doing on his Twitch channel going back through all the franchise mode games from NHL 11 onwards and seeing the experience is like comparatively, feels fresh and nostalgic and I've been loving watching the streams/YT vids he's been doing. Reminds you of the good/bad of each version

EA has neglected franchise fans for far too long. Jonny is spot on with nba2k, imagine nhl with these options?? All the legends, different era's to play franchise in. Im not a huge basketball guy, but i grew up in the jorden era, and i have a blast reliving/rewriting history.

EA has terribly neglected the game modes that don't make a profit for them in all of their games since probably 2012 or so. What I would like to see from a NHL series Franchise Mode is to have the ability to start as the GM at a Junior, College (because of NIL NCAA teams should be included in the game), or European team and make your way up to be the GM of an NHL team similar to if you started at a small school in NCAA Football or a League 2 (or similar) club in FIFA. International Management should be possible for the bigger international tournaments. For Be a Pro I think you should be able to start as a 15 year old in AAA, get drafted into the CHL, or choose to play in college or Europe, represent your country in international tournaments such as the World Juniors, World Championships and Olympics (give it a generic name), and get drafted to the NHL based on how you played for 4 seasons, or go undrafted and play elsewhere.

Imagine being able to have Joe Pavelski teaching a young forward how to tip pucks and giving the kid the "tip master" badge... ugh EA

Tendencies is something ea needs to bring in too. If you’ve ever watched a cpu vs cpu game every player plays the same way it’s just a letter of how well they’re able to do those. Yes there’s pass/shoot bias and attributes and xfactors change it slightly but it gets very boring and would help with the randomizing of xfactors for new players

Well, FHM10 will be announced in a few hours. More than enough of a franchise mode, that game.

What's sad is that 2k franchise mode is still very broken but it's way more complete than NHL it's just wild