November 2018
Signed three players and traded two leaving just four unsigned prospect. No change; keeps spinning "simulating". If I hit the circle, it just says "finishing..." Stuck on July 10 but played four seasons.
December 2018
C'mon EA, fix the damn game or give me my $65 god damned dollars back.
December 2018
Also have this problem. I tried to get rid of unsigned players as mentioned in this thread and still couldn't get past July 4 and sometimes July 3 after hiring new scouts. I tried many, many things to make it easier on the game (offering only two FA contracts, signing/trading unsigned, doing any combination of things on separate days so i could baby the game along) and nothing worked.
This is just season 1 for me and I played about 70 reg season games + the playoffs. If this doesn't get fixed soon I'm done with NHL. I was enjoying everything and worked hard at it, but to just have none of it matter is pretty devastating. NHL are the only games I play anymore made by EA. Please get this right or I'm done.
December 2018
January 2019
The same thing is happening to me. Did you ever resolve this? If you didn't I feel your pain. If you did could you tell me how?
January 2019
My franchise is stuck on June 27, 2020. When I click on Advance Day, it just has an infinite loop of it simulating. It seems stuck. I also have a pile of unsigned free agents, would that have anything to do with this? I've tried signing them all, but still nothing.
January 2019
Mines July 6, no matter what won’t go past it
January 2019
I eventually found a way, but I cant guarantee it will work for everyone.
Originally I had drafted 11 players in the draft, even after signing and trading that number down to 3 it still wouldn't work.
I had a save before the draft and only drafted 6 players, then signed 2 of those guys. This fixed that freeze.
Afterwards I kept getting freezes if I offered more than two FA contracts or more than 4 scout contracts.
So I made it through the offseason. Funny thing is I worked so hard making it work that I got burnt out and dont even want to play anymore.
Hope this helps!
January 2019
January 2019
Great info, thank you. I gave up and started another franchise lol. I still have the save from the old one and it happened right after I had offered a couple different free agents. So that actually does make a lot of sense.
After the initial one I've made a habit of saving different before & after files in the off season whenever an event happens and I haven't had the problem in my new franchise and I am 5 years in now.
But I will definitely test this out in my new franchise and see if I can make my way through a glitch created by this.
Thanks again bro!