[Nutlaw]

"the lack of information about contract and free agent offers, the AI doing weird things unless you shut it down for every team and every level, the lack of development information..."

These are actually three of my biggest irks when playing the game in a single player league right now. The game isn't polished yet. It's difficult to tell what the AI is trying to do sometimes, and there isn't enough feedback on what is going on with players in matters like free agent offers and development information, so I never really know what they are doing either. (I just started up a league and am scared by the fact that every player I've offered a contract to so far has sent me two emails the next day: one saying that they will take the time to consider other offers followed immediately by a second saying that they will sign the contract. Will the on-line league I play in be essentially forced to throw in all of our final bids on the first day of free agency if we convert?)

Some of the new features are neat in theory, but are unwieldy (scouting, especially with limited access to averaged ratings) or detract from the game in practice (draft compensation picks, since the choice of arbitration was taken out and every poor FA pickup costs an expensive third round pick).

The game was released before it was finished, tech support only resulted in anything being fixed because volunteers stepped in, and at this point we will apparently need to throw down more money before getting some of the design flaws (we'll not call most of them bugs at this point) fixed.

I like the new game. I'm continually speaking out in front of my online league in favor of converting because I do like some of the new features. However, the experience, as a whole, has been disappointing.