From Reddit: EA intentionally removed “full presntation” this year

[Cycloniac]

Re: From Reddit: EA intentionally removed “full presntation” this year

https://www.reddit.com/r/EA_NHL/comm...nse_to_nhl_23/

For the people speculating it would be added after the trial. Confirmed by the EA community manager. It’s out by design this year and probably not coming back.

This combined with strategies being removed from franchise, I am out this year. Have fun boys

If this is true...yeah, I think that's the nail in the coffin for me.

Can't get the game this year guys. It's just too many drawbacks.

[Therebelyell626]

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If this is true...yeah, I think that's the nail in the coffin for me.

Can't get the game this year guys. It's just too many drawbacks.

I’m there to honestly. What blows my mind is even in my most wildest assertions, I for the life of me cannot even come up with a reason these decisions were made. You could argue, “well, they’re trying to save money”. No… no…. No. They could literally just use the broadcast package from last year and it wouldn’t cost them a dime of money or any additional resources.

Let’s be honest. EA is a profit driven company. There is zero financial incentive for them to remove something that would cost them exactly zero dollars to produce this year. Removing it adds nothing to their bottom line, other than some fantasy they may have that everyone will all of a sudden drop all offline modes and start dropping money in HUT if they are just not fun to play.

My second theory is that one of these new “presentation overlays” or “team intros” (all six of them lol) caused some type of catastrophic bug to occur with the broadcast package from last year. At which point the logical thing to do would be to remove the new fluff, and not the overall broadcast package. But EA wouldn’t due this because in their warped mind they probably feel it’s best to sale “them” on something NEW even if it is incomplete, then to not have anything to sale “them” on at all.

Now let’s get back to “team intros”. There are 6 of them in the game out of 32 teams. This is absolutely crazy. Can you imagine if maddens big selling feature last year when they implemented team momentum and home field advantage only applied to 6 of the 32 teams???? People would have been completely outraged. The difference is EA knows they can stick it to the NhL fan base without as much as a whimper.

Thirdly, to all of you people claiming EA Vancouver is a small development team. They are not. EA Vancouver is also responsible for producing FiFa which is the highest selling sports title in the world. The NhL team may be small, but they have the money and resources to insure that a major back of the box selling feature not only works, but is available to all 32 teams instead of 6.To give them a pass because of a “small team” is absolutely absurd. They simply do not care and have showed each and every one of us that this year. Not only to they not care, they are willing to use underhanded tactics, and strategic wording in their marketing materials to intentionally mislead the fan base and sale us a bill of goods.

It’s just so sleazy and disgusting

[tyler289]

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Honestly my theory is someone ****ed up and accidentally deleted the cutscenes from the game and Rammer said screw it, the only people who will care will just yell into the void. It's honestly some of the grossest stuff I've seen from a professional development team. The clever wording is the cherry on top.

[BannaCricket]

Re: From Reddit: EA intentionally removed “full presntation” this year

I wish they would stop releasing new versions of the game every year, and just make roster updates. This game is dying a slow death.

[Travolterjohn]

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https://www.reddit.com/r/EA_NHL/comm...up_game_intro/

Stanley Cup Presentation NHL 15 which was one of the worst games of this series compared to NHL 23

[BenVenom]

Re: From Reddit: EA intentionally removed “full presntation” this year

Has anyone simmed to the trade deadline to see if the trade deadline feature is still there. Wouldn’t be shocked if that was removed also

[swatkins1978]

Re: From Reddit: EA intentionally removed “full presntation” this year

Still can’t believe there is no all star experience and Winter Classic.

The WNBA franchise experience, one I play myself, is the 4th or 5th priority for 2K, and it is more immersive.

MLBTS even let’s you play with the Field of Dreams.

Sad.


-SW

PS5: swatkins1978

[sadler]

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Has anyone simmed to the trade deadline to see if the trade deadline feature is still there. Wouldn’t be shocked if that was removed also

Still there

[Instant C1a55ic]

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So....you're saying stay with 22 then?

Cause i was just about to buy 23 until I went through this thread.

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[Travolterjohn]

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So....you're saying stay with 22 then?

Cause i was just about to buy 23 until I went through this thread.

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I will stay with 22. Will buy 23 in a used market later, so EA earns nothing from me. Last year did the same way.

[onlybygrace]

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Thats too bad because the game is actually pretty damn good and I hated 22. Loving this one so far.

[Cubfan]

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Gotta hand it to EA, they find the most tone deaf dev teams to make their games.


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It’s not the developers it’s marketing making the call.

[Head Coach]

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I like playing all 82 games myself and I was using Franchise mode to do it.
But since you cant change strategies you definitely cannot play a whole season yourself.

On season mode you CAN change the strategies so I will have to use that but it does not have all the features and things you can do each game on Franchise mode.

If you like playing your games Franchise mode is irrelevant now.

[Slickster1]

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You can still change stratergies on the set up screen just before you go to game start which i find ok as i might want to play a different style against different teams.

[larma]

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This did it for me. I'm lost for words on how amazingly stupid this decision is.

I cancelled my preorder and will probably skip this year altogether.