Friend was saying to me that it doesn't matter how you handle prospects or how they perform they all have a set rating they will reach regardless. Is that true? Kind of takes any fun out of it
There's no way to prove it, but in previous games there were specific prospects who'd boom or bust regardless of what you do.
In 15, Curtis Lazar despite being 4* potential barely or never grew. Morgan Reilly would hit 90 like clockwork on every GM mode play through (I've done dozens).
I don't know if they've changed this so that every NHL player has an exact potential they hit, but I doubt it because later on in the game you get drafts that are all computer generated prospects that don't exist, and GM modes can go 25 seasons long, so I doubt they'd pre-program that many prospects.
A big issue with prospects is that growth is broken in the game, so I could see a motivation to pre-program guys as a quick fix. Certain stats don't grow, while other stats mutate to insane levels. If you play a 10 year GM mode, it is pretty normal for almost every computer generated player to have 4.5/5 star shot, 4.5/5 star skating because player growth is broken.
With that said, I think introducing morale was a waste of EA's resources when prospect development/scouting, which is the most important feature in a franchise mode is completely broken/boring, and they'd be better served to fix the bare bones of GM mode before adding new features that might at EA's pace they develop features in GM mode at need years of tweaking as well.
