How NHL 15 Will Capture the Look and Feel of Hockey with NBC Sports Broadcast Package

[Money99]

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if the player ratings ranged from 1-100 like the old genesis games intead of like 65-100 or whatever it is they have, the game would be so much better.

i think players like shawn thornton are ranked like 70 in this game. thats nuts.
Thornton should be ranked around the 10-20 range, just as an example.

someone like john scott should be ranked in the 1-5 range.

I'd love it if they did this too. Wasn't it Baumgarnter who was ranked a 1 or 2? He was horrific.

I can't recall where I read this, but I believe it was the NHLPA that prevented any of their players from being rated that low.
That's fine. But make a person with 55 hands, feel like they have cement in their gloves.

But this is a topic I've wasted so much breath on I don't want to do it again.

EA may have been forced to give the CPU boosts in prowess to bandage the poor AI.
With this new hardware, there's no excuse. The CPU should never, EVER, get a boost for anything.
We should finally see true intelligence which would finally make the attributes valid.
No more need to give goons the vision of Gretzky.

If they still can't provide that, then all these fancy graphics and arena's won't make a lick of difference.

[SpectralThundr]

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I'd love it if they did this too. Wasn't it Baumgarnter who was ranked a 1 or 2? He was horrific.

I can't recall where I read this, but I believe it was the NHLPA that prevented any of their players from being rated that low.
That's fine. But make a person with 55 hands, feel like they have cement in their gloves.

But this is a topic I've wasted so much breath on I don't want to do it again.

EA may have been forced to give the CPU boosts in prowess to bandage the poor AI.
With this new hardware, there's no excuse. The CPU should never, EVER, get a boost for anything.
We should finally see true intelligence which would finally make the attributes valid.
No more need to give goons the vision of Gretzky.

If they still can't provide that, then all these fancy graphics and arena's won't make a lick of difference.

I can't find the link now, but it was indeed the NHLPA stepping in some years ago about attributes being too low. EA would never come out and say they were contractually obligated to skew the ratings scale but it wouldn't shock me if in order to carry the NHLPA seal and thus the actual players that they be ranked on a scale of say 50-100 rather than 1-100. Much like in Madden now in order to have a players actual tats they need waivers signed by the players themselves due to past lawsuits. Again people often just don't realize the legal mumbo jumbo involved with having rights to certain leagues or player unions represented in game.

[Splitter77]

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I can't find the link now, but it was indeed the NHLPA stepping in some years ago about attributes being too low. EA would never come out and say they were contractually obligated to skew the ratings scale but it wouldn't shock me if in order to carry the NHLPA seal and thus the actual players that they be ranked on a scale of say 50-100 rather than 1-100. Much like in Madden now in order to have a players actual tats they need waivers signed by the players themselves due to past lawsuits. Again people often just don't realize the legal mumbo jumbo involved with having rights to certain leagues or player unions represented in game.

are you serious??
did they really make a complaint about attributes being too low??

[SpectralThundr]

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are you serious??
did they really make a complaint about attributes being too low??

They did, in response to Baumgarnter being rated 1 over all, I think it was NHL94 or 95. High Score Productions which was an internal team at EA at the time was the developer. Players complained to the NHLPA and they weren't happy about it. I had read an article years ago with sources, can't for the life of me find it now though unfortunately.

[Money99]

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They did, in response to Baumgarnter being rated 1 over all, I think it was NHL94 or 95. High Score Productions which was an internal team at EA at the time was the developer. Players complained to the NHLPA and they weren't happy about it. I had read an article years ago with sources, can't for the life of me find it now though unfortunately.

I remember reading that as well.
I think Shawn Chambers was rated a 1 or 2 as well. In fact, IGN did a whole article about it and even had video of them trying to score a goal with Chambers. It was really funny.

But to answer your question Splitter77, the NHLPA were the ones that stepped in and forced EA to make sure no NHL player was ranked below a certain grade.