I really enjoy this game and I have almost all the other manager game made by this company. Definitely some of my favorite games I’ve ever played. However, I have 1 fix that I’d like to point out. Whenever you try to edit lines or move a player to a different line, it causes the players on the bench to start getting minutes in the game. Any adjustment from the auto lines means that you will have 6 different lines all playing. This can be somewhat annoying when trying to maximize points and build the best lines and team.

My qualm with this game more than any other is balancing of the AI teams. I’ve played I don’t know how many seasons in this game, spend countless time crafting the perfect team of players under the cap with chemistry of 90+ overall of 95+ with no gear, coaching styles all matched, just to eventually be beat by worse teams with less chemistry and talent just because they are able to have gear that gives the 10 attribute points all across the spectrum for every player. Meanwhile best we can do is 3 attribute points for 5-6 attributes, without paying for the 5, which is still half of the AI gear. It’s a sly way to go about the game and move people into paying for gear which probably wouldn’t help a whole lot anyway. No reason a team that is less talented by a long shot should be able to immediately bump each player’s attributes across the board by 10. It’s sneaky, and quite ridiculous. The most the AI should have is the max of what we have of 5.

The game is somewhat entertaining for the first 20 seasons of your team, until AI opponents start to build superteams that you can only compete with by paying money. I spent loads of time perfecting my team through trades and drafting and barely navigating the cap, just to find out I got fired from my position because the owner drops his goals for the only apparent reason of missing them prior. On top of the fact that I was fighting with less than $1 million of cap every year, the new GM to take over dropped it by over $40 million, with out cutting anybody! The game is blatantly lying about other teams caps as many of them sit over the actual limit to gain a higher edge than what should be possible on you. Overall good experience until the pay to win section came in, would not recommend buying unless you plan to drop money on it.

I like the game but this is not as good as the others. I have all of the Ultimate GM games and buy the premium for all of them. They are all great but I don’t understand why on the hockey one you can’t make player for player trades? You can only trade players for draft picks or draft picks for other draft picks. I end up with so many draft picks that I just end up trading them for fewer higher picks the following draft because there’s no way to draft that many players. Why can’t I trade one player for another? Make the point system like in the football one so we have the option to trade for better players already in the league to help our teams. I’m not sure why you would change anything from the other GM games you make. They are great…this one is getting frustrating.