No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

[Pezell04x]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

[riichiieriich]

Moving my pre-order money for NHL and FIFA to Destiny and NBA 2K. It just blows my mind how the past generations EA Sports has managed to take away key features from their sports games and sell them at a full game price. They do not deserve my hard earned money.

[Pete1210]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

I'm moving my preorder to Far Cry 4

[bluesfan13]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

This sucks as I was really looking forward to this game more than any of the others (I guess mostly because of presentation). On the plus side my roommate is getting this one, not me, but it's still very annoying. I wasn't super active in EASHL, but every few weekends my buddies and I would get on there and have fun for a few hours. Very dissapointed in this.

[fiddlerpaul]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

This really puts a ton of pressure on the gameplay demo to release next week. If the core gameplay that they seem really proud of is broken or not as innovative as they claim, this could set the franchise back for much longer than just this year. As a die hard hockey fan, I'm really hoping that the gameplay really is as good as they claim.

Totally right on that.

[canucksss]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

Why does EA use the same excuse every year "We didn't have enough time" or "we built from the ground up" its the samething every year. EASHL to be honest was the only game mode I ever played on NHL so guess I wont be touching this game.

You know why they kept using these phrases....because they think that their consumers aqre stupid and no knowledge of hockey....bunch of kids who are only after scoring so much goals in a game.

All I've seen from them is 1 step forward but 3 bstep backward.

[Inhocmark]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

This is the ultimate catch 22 for NHL fans. If we don't buy the game, then EA has grounds to make the NHL team even smaller and if we do buy the game we're telling them we'll buy a half baked product.

I have no clue what I'm going to do. I skipped last year's game when I went Next Gen and missed my Hockey fix. I think this is going to come down to the Demo for me. If the game players awesome then maybe Be A GM will give me enough bang for my buck.

[mjarz02]

I was planning on buying this game but the comments from the producer have me worried. I think I'll go with fifa instead. I can see NHL getting a price drop a few months after release and I will want to see what gets patched in. I'm not big into EASHL but I like having the option to play, it's definitely disapointing.

[jkalnin]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

This is the ultimate catch 22 for NHL fans. If we don't buy the game, then EA has grounds to make the NHL team even smaller and if we do buy the game we're telling them we'll buy a half baked product.

I have no clue what I'm going to do. I skipped last year's game when I went Next Gen and missed my Hockey fix. I think this is going to come down to the Demo for me. If the game players awesome then maybe Be A GM will give me enough bang for my buck.

Don't buy it right away to send the message, just wait until they add OTP support as promised. Then go buy it at a reduced price saving you money while only half screwing EA. Message sent, hockey fix covered, win win.

[Ctez32]

I'm pretty angry about this, I mean I have been looking forward to this game since I got my ps4 in feb, and now tht they took away a lot of the modes I feel like it's not worth 60$. So I'm gonna preorder something else bc I don't want to waste money on a HALF-ASSED game

[juice2142]

pre-order cancelled.... what a drag. didn't look that impressive from the videos anyway. Too many people on the ground during play. Big hits are not that common

[juice2142]

also, what the guys said above. make them walk the walk and put in OTP before purchasing. This will be a $40 game by Xmas if sales are as down as I am expecting.

[Madwolf]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

I definitely think the game should have a price reduction given the lack of important features.

For me I'm going to buy the game, because I've always gotten the most enjoyment out of BaGM Offline and Connected.

It is however, incredibly disappointing to see that BaGM connected isn't in, because I was really looking forward to playing the game with my friends this year, and now that's obviously not going to happen, which makes me incredibly sad. I hope we can have multiple teams in Offline BaGM so I can play when my buddy comes over.

Losing EASHL REALLY hurts. I was stoked to play it this year, and it's probably the biggest disappointment for me in this whole process.

It all hurts worse knowing that HUT is in. It's hard to convince myself that HUT didn't get in just because it makes money post release.

[Inhocmark]

Re: No EASHL, GM Connected, OTP, or Live The Life in NHL 15 on XB1/PS4 (Interview)

I definitely think the game should have a price reduction given the lack of important features.

For me I'm going to buy the game, because I've always gotten the most enjoyment out of BaGM Offline and Connected.

It is however, incredibly disappointing to see that BaGM connected isn't in, because I was really looking forward to playing the game with my friends this year, and now that's obviously not going to happen, which makes me incredibly sad. I hope we can have multiple teams in Offline BaGM so I can play when my buddy comes over.

Losing EASHL REALLY hurts. I was stoked to play it this year, and it's probably the biggest disappointment for me in this whole process.

It all hurts worse knowing that HUT is in. It's hard to convince myself that HUT didn't get in just because it makes money post release.

I actually find the reasoning on HUT credible. It's really a skin of a default mode whereas OTP/EASHL is a different experience. What I don't get is that FIFA was able to incorporate their version directly into 14. Both games are built on the same campus. So why was the experience that the FIFA team had last season not shared with the NHL team? I get that ultimately the NHL team is going to have a lot less resources than the FIFA team but still...For a generation of console whose main raison d'etre is social gaming and online play, this seems like a cardinal sin.

[kerosene31]

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I've bought every NHL game at launch since 07. Actually other than a few of the years before 7 I've bought the game since it existed.

I am definitely skipping this year. I only played a little EASHL and online GM, but I'm still not buying.

The NHL series went downhill as soon as the competition was gone. That's just the sad truth. Fifa still ends up getting improvements every year. Funny how that is the only game that has competition.

Sadly I will still buy Fifa this year most likely.

What offends me most is the lousy excuses for cutting these features. I love how "nobody played online GM"... year because it was horribly buggy. Fix it and people might play more. That was a great mode as you know who your online opponents will be and don't have to deal with the masses.

Also I wouldn't buy the game just so they don't cut down on the hockey dev team for next year. When Tiger Woods golf started going south they took a year off and hopefully will come back with a much improved game.

The whole push for Ultimate Team in games is terrible. Pay to win schemes are horrible. You either have to play hundreds of hours or pay through the nose to be good.