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

[FanSinceWayBack]

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

How did you guys get EA NHL division to put team play back in the game? Im trying to do something similar with Madden, as they have taken team play out as well.

EA has a monopoly and it would be super cool if they didnt rub it in our faces. This is 2014 and a new era of consoles just came out. STOP TAKING MODES OUT OF THE GAMES!!!

[ChubbyBanana]

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

NHL Moments is a useless game mode they could have spent that dev time on GM Connected or EASHL honestly.

Pretty much we've learned everyone plays different parts of the game, and that having as many options available as possible is the best solution to make everyone happy.

I for instance enjoy NHL Moments, but I wouldn't say I'm in the majority.

[drog1602]

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

Pretty much we've learned everyone plays different parts of the game, and that having as many options available as possible is the best solution to make everyone happy.

I for instance enjoy NHL Moments, but I wouldn't say I'm in the majority.

For me, it was how they implemented this game mode. It should have been made part of BeAGm, BeAPro, and Season modes, then as you play those modes the moments would activate if you were in a position to challenge that moment.

As it stood as a stand alone feature, it was just ok. IMO

[statnut]

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

Pretty much we've learned everyone plays different parts of the game, and that having as many options available as possible is the best solution to make everyone happy.

I for instance enjoy NHL Moments, but I wouldn't say I'm in the majority.

NHL Moments is fun for what it is, a few minutes of play, but when it's one of like six game modes, it's kind of a problem.

[statnut]

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

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.

If they came out and said they were charging $40 for it or doing a bundle for $90 with both the current and next-gen games included, I'd buy it. But $60 for a stripped-down game just isn't right.

At the end of the day though, everyone's entitled to do what they want with their money.

[ChubbyBanana]

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

Guess I'm glad I have Best Buy gamers club unlocked then. With that discount and some coupons it makes the feature stripped version feel a little less.
I get what you're saying guys. If I had been a huge eashl guy I'd be disappointed

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[statnut]

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

Guess I'm glad I have Best Buy gamers club unlocked then. With that discount and some coupons it makes the feature stripped version feel a little less.
I get what you're saying guys. If I had been a huge eashl guy I'd be disappointed

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I have it too and I still will wait for it to drop lower. Maybe $30.

And it's not just EASHL. Two of the three game modes I spent the most time playing the last two years (GM Connected being the other) have been axed. Tough to justify the money.

[Gerg04]

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

Guess I'm glad I have Best Buy gamers club unlocked then. With that discount and some coupons it makes the feature stripped version feel a little less.
I get what you're saying guys. If I had been a huge eashl guy I'd be disappointed

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Yea well that deal is good regardless. In reality it's still too much because this game should not be $60, period.

It's not about whether you or I play the game modes that are in or out. It's that they've admittedly omitted game modes when they have had more time than anyone to develop on next gen and still charge full price that is the problem.

[EliJ27]

Someone PLEASE tell me you can still create players in this game though, like single player, be a gm and so fourth. I like the customization aspect of games and really i feel like a lot of people should feel this way, it gives you a sense of control over your game that you pay $64.19 for.... I know a lot of people are fed up with EA and they know that too. So with that being said I can't imagine EA would want to open up that can of worms if they took that out.

[spidertour02]

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

NHL Moments is a useless game mode they could have spent that dev time on GM Connected or EASHL honestly.

Actually, I find it to be a fun way to kill a few minutes while I'm waiting for something/someone.

Also, one has nothing to do with the others. NHL Moments doesn't require anything special other than changing a few digits in the starting conditions and finding a good header image. It probably takes them a handful of weeks of dev time, tops. (This is especially evident based on the fact that they easily add more during the season.)

[mtoo22]

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

Wouldn't it be better to put out a beta of sorts and push back release (Hardline) than to push out a half finished product that will be a disappointment from the get go. Take a page from your own parent company EA, and push this thing back. I understand there is a season coming up. But you have a whole generation to build on. Not just one years worth of game.

[MASCAR22]

Perhaps I'll just wait until the game gets put in the "Vault".

lmao....true.

[htskr21]

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.

I stand corrected with regard to EASHL and the micro transactions. It wasn't really the point I was trying to make, however. To your point, I would assume HUT would be far easier to program into the game than EASHL, meaning fewer resources/less expense for EA Sports. Combine that with HUT's potential revenue, the return on investment would make HUT the slam dunk choice for the company to include, if they had to choose. (Which they did.)

[Stormyhog]

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

It all has to do with trying to get sales across the board. If people really want the modes missing from PS4/XboxOne then they'll have to get both versions. I just don't by into there limited time & resources lingo they throw out there. While they're cutting stuff why don't they cut the price of the PS4/XboxOne versions. I didn't think so.

[Arrowhead21]

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

It all has to do with trying to get sales across the board. If people really want the modes missing from PS4/XboxOne then they'll have to get both versions.

not really, EASHL will still be booming on NHL 14