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Old 08-21-2014, 10:48 AM   #233
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Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

For me the EASHL was the only reason that myself and three other teammates played this game. There is zero resaon to purchse NHL15, even if they did patch it. Its too little too late.

When they do bring back the EASHL it had better exceed my expectations, not be a rehash of what we currently have (though I have little faith this will happen).

The way that EA SPORTS has handled this whole situation, has really left a bad tatste in my mouth and I sense that it has done severe damage to NHL series with other customers as well.

At this point I think we need a new game and new team that can start fresh and build back some of its damaged reputation. Perhaps the EASHL could be released as a stand alone product.

I wonder about the future of this series, it smells a lot like the demise of the 2K hockey game.

We all saw this coming.

I guess when you build from the ground up every year, you remain in the basement!

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Old 08-21-2014, 11:28 AM   #234
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I apologize if someone has already made this point. Electronic Arts is first and foremost, a business. In order to remain in business, you have to turn a profit. (At least over the long term.) The NHL team's allotment of resources (staff, equipment, travel, oversight, etc.) would be based both on historical profit (or loss) numbers from previous year(s), especially the numbers following the first launch of the NHL series on PS3 and an extrapolation (best guess) on potential profit with the next-gen console. I firmly believe Sean and anyone else on his team truly do want to produce the best possible product but they are only human. They have to sleep, take vacations, get sick and are some days more (or less) productive than others. Same as any of us.

Everyone is correct in stating that HUT made it in solely because it generates revenue for the NHL title and other modes do not, (at least in a measurable way.) In order to increase the revenue and therefore, the resources that the development team is given in the future, the title must make money, plain and simple. Whether or not that is fair to the consumer or not, well there's only one way to really make your voice heard and that's not to buy the product. Of course, if enough people did that, EA's most likely response wouldn't be to pour more resources into NHL 16' because they feel bad for us, it would be to pull the plug on the product when their deal with the NHL runs out. Much like MLB 2K and EA's subsequent silence on producing a baseball game for next-gen consoles. As a side note, Major League Baseball, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Old 08-21-2014, 11:47 AM   #235
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Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

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I wonder how the only mode that was able to sneak in was Ultimate team?

Parents beware! do not allow your children access to your credit card # and expiry- EA will drain you of money you have not earned yet by selling your kids virtual baseball cards. The humanity of it all!
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Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

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I apologize if someone has already made this point. Electronic Arts is first and foremost, a business. In order to remain in business, you have to turn a profit. (At least over the long term.) The NHL team's allotment of resources (staff, equipment, travel, oversight, etc.) would be based both on historical profit (or loss) numbers from previous year(s), especially the numbers following the first launch of the NHL series on PS3 and an extrapolation (best guess) on potential profit with the next-gen console. I firmly believe Sean and anyone else on his team truly do want to produce the best possible product but they are only human. They have to sleep, take vacations, get sick and are some days more (or less) productive than others. Same as any of us.

Everyone is correct in stating that HUT made it in solely because it generates revenue for the NHL title and other modes do not, (at least in a measurable way.) In order to increase the revenue and therefore, the resources that the development team is given in the future, the title must make money, plain and simple. Whether or not that is fair to the consumer or not, well there's only one way to really make your voice heard and that's not to buy the product. Of course, if enough people did that, EA's most likely response wouldn't be to pour more resources into NHL 16' because they feel bad for us, it would be to pull the plug on the product when their deal with the NHL runs out. Much like MLB 2K and EA's subsequent silence on producing a baseball game for next-gen consoles. As a side note, Major League Baseball, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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This holds no merit when EASHL also has micro transactions which makes them a lot of extra cash, 2nd most to HUT .

So if its all about the money they should have just put in an NHL season mode ,EASHL and HUT.
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EA were deleting comments and even relevant questions regarding GM connected yesterday on there own forum.....really dispicable practice imo.

That's their actual practice ever since. I know some were not polite and really deserve to be banned. But its different if they cannot take any criticism and have the arrogance of not improving the game and expect us to be silent about it.


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Anyone buying this is a part of the problem, no way should it be 60 bucks, or it should have been delayed until 2016. EA has a monopoly on hockey and no competition, this is what you get......
THANK YOU. I know the hockey fanatics need our fix, so those guys with X1 and getting the chance to play ahead of time can really do BIG FAVOR to this community. See what's in the game. If Only presentations, crowds and arenas are new and no improvement in gameplay, Live a life, BaGM etc, then we can say....no to 15 and a probable in 16.
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Old 08-21-2014, 05:46 PM   #238
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Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

While I understand the disappointment in modes that were in previous versions not being there the game does what I want it to. NHL Moments, Exhibition, Vs 1v1 Offline, and Be a GM.

I think however you guys saying I'm "not a real hockey fan" or "I'm contributing to the problem" for planning on buying a game that fits my needs is ridiculous though. It'd be like if I said you were crazy to like EASHL and play it all the time.

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While I understand the disappointment in modes that were in previous versions not being there the game does what I want it to. NHL Moments, Exhibition, Vs 1v1 Offline, and Be a GM.

I think however you guys saying I'm "not a real hockey fan" or "I'm contributing to the problem" for planning on buying a game that fits my needs is ridiculous though. It'd be like if I said you were crazy to like EASHL and play it all the time.

Just my thoughts.
I think the main point is they're stripping out features of the game and charging full price. Play all the game modes or not, it's the principle here.

I could be happy with only having online vs as I play that mostly. But I still dabbled in other modes, specifically EASHL. On the contrary some people only play EASHL.

The point is to each their own. And everybody has preferences on what mode they play. So to skip a year, (unlike Fifa, NBA etc) and still have features removed just tastes bad to us faithful fans/buyers of the game. Look if you can't get everything working properly fine, but don't admittedly remove features and charge full price. EA would never drop their price we know that. Again it's the PRINCIPLE.

And for what its worth, anybody telling you what to do with your money or "how much of a hockey fan you are" you should just ignore, bc that's straight troll speak.
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Old 08-21-2014, 06:22 PM   #240
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NHL Moments is a useless game mode they could have spent that dev time on GM Connected or EASHL honestly.
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