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  • RaychelSnr
    Executive Editor
    • Jan 2007
    • 4845

    #1

    NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement


    PR isn't my specialty, but here are some sample announcements Electronic Arts could have made yesterday that might have justified their marketers' month-long buildup to the "New Era" of NHL 15, which went live Monday evening...

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  • GrandMaster B
    Rookie
    • Nov 2004
    • 469

    #2
    Time for some new people to work on this game. Amazing some of these guys have lasted this long or have not moved on.
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    • RUFFNREADY
      Rookie
      • Mar 2004
      • 363

      #3
      I was warned about purchasing this game' so I waited until Black Friday, and bought it for less than $30. I was getting ready for this "New Era" stuff, and got a excited. As of right now' I am thinking of trading in the game! It wasn't worth the $30 purchase. The game is a total let down in almost all areas! This whole debacle, make me think that they shouldn't have released NHL15 on next-gen this year! I hope NHL16 is much better and more innovative than it's predecessor.
      Thanks EA, for hyping up something, for absolutely "Nothing".
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      • Vikes1
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        • May 2008
        • 4102

        #4
        Re: NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement

        At this point i'd be thrilled just to get another tuner set outta this thing. You know....something we all might benefit from.
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        • Retropyro
          Pro
          • Jul 2010
          • 796

          #5
          The entire NHL development team needs to be fired.
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          • ianlast
            Rookie
            • Mar 2008
            • 451

            #6
            Originally posted by Retropyro
            The entire NHL development team needs to be fired.
            The PR/marketing team for NHL needs to be fired more than anything.

            When you've pulled a borderline bait-and-switch on consumers with all the missing game modes, the last thing you should be doing is hyping up some useless HUT gimmicks while other areas of the game sorely need attention.

            EA seems incredibly out of touch with what their NHL consumers actually want.

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            • badazzleroybrown
              Rookie
              • May 2013
              • 223

              #7
              i like many other were so pumped that i bought it digitally to get access early, what a huge mistake
              cause i have to sell my xbox one with the game on hd to get rid of the game.

              every year they focus on game tweaks its like they want to sit there and tweak the same stuff and not work on a thing.

              i personally do not play online its for cheese play there servers suck anyways
              and all this money pit Hut modes are useless . i want to be able to play legends in my gm modes

              maybe some historical teams or the ability to create are own .
              and how about fixing goalie masks if you trade for one you get there old teams masks , why not let us import images for goalie masks so we can create and share them.
              maybe add face scan so that in are offline franchise modes we can use custom face scans where we can edit every players face and put what we want.
              i only say this cause they only add rookies never current players plus there current tech is terrible.

              and my biggest gripe realistic in game stamina and penalties im so sick of them not being a part of the game its been 5 years at least that we say something to them and they do nothing. do they not realize power plays are a huge factor in game outcomes.

              the face off system is so 3rd grade the player models are too big compared to the size of the rink and you can take a skater who is 99 speed and he can not get past the slowest player in the game skating backwards. should add a coach mode as well more camera angles. bring back the 3 stars skating on the ice after the game. adding the ability to have multple hockey players locked up against the boards.

              more and more and more penalties and types of them .

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              • MizzouRah
                All Star
                • Jul 2002
                • 8573

                #8
                Re: NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement

                Originally posted by Vikes1
                At this point i'd be thrilled just to get another tuner set outta this thing. You know....something we all might benefit from.
                For ME, anything a tuner can do is beyond what needs to happen for NHL 16 and at least I'm having good games now, so I don't want any more updates/tweaks to the game play in NHL 15.

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                • bigwill33
                  MVP
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 2281

                  #9
                  Re: NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement

                  The title of this article could've just been "NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed" and it would have been just as appropriate.

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                  • TSGuy
                    Rookie
                    • Nov 2014
                    • 282

                    #10
                    Just hope this series doesn't kill themselves like NBA Live did, it took em years and now there finally starting to get something going.

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                    • Pezell04x
                      MVP
                      • Apr 2010
                      • 2907

                      #11
                      Re: NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement

                      The problem is that there seems to be zero direction with the NHL series. With the NBA 2K series, there was some direction. The MyCareer was better this year than last and you could see improvement. There is no improvement with the Be A Pro in NHL 15 this year. In fact, it is worse than its last generation counterpart. There's so many mistakes in a game that supposedly had a two year cycle and now the support from EA is gone.

                      While Madden continues to update its roster weekly, the NHL team hasn't done it once this season. There seems to be zero support outside of new ways to spend your money. If this is what NHL games are going to become then I don't think I can support this franchise, this team and this publisher. I just can't do it anymore.

                      I passed on 15 because EASHL was my thing. Outside of Be A GM, where I barely made it past the all-star break, EASHL is where I spent all of my time. Hours and hours on a Friday night dumped into 3v3 or 4v4 with my group of friends.

                      Even if EASHL does return in 16 (and I would be surprised if it didn't), I don't know if I want to back a team that doesn't seem to really care about the product they are putting out. I am not a guy who wants to see people lose jobs but the product has become stagnant and a once innovative title is slipping into below average territory.
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                      • Majingir
                        Moderator
                        • Apr 2005
                        • 47739

                        #12
                        Re: NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement

                        Unless EA fixes up their games big time or I just get real stupid/desperate to play a new EA NHL game years from now, I won't ever be buying a EA Sports NHL game again.

                        I've been playing NHL video games for 15 years now and at one point, EA Sports was even my fave company out there, but that has quickly changed and now I hate EA Sports almost as bad as I hated THQ(thankfully THQ is dead now).

                        They just refuse to fix some of the major gameplay problems in the game(too few penalties,too many passing issues,CPU gets so many rebounds/rebound goals,puck control for the users are horrible,and sliders in general are broken), and instead just focus their time/effort on HUT and all these stupid gimmicks. And have that horrible PR guy who dodges more questions than a politician and acts more annoying that pushy commission salesmen. He's even blamed the CUSTOMERS for why certain issues occur in the game, instead of trying to fix some issues,he said it was because of how people play the game, as to why some things do(or don't) happen....Just amazes me the types of things they do at times/lengths they go to in order to defend their mistakes.
                        Last edited by Majingir; 12-09-2014, 03:43 PM.

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                        • mjarz02
                          Rookie
                          • Jul 2009
                          • 434

                          #13
                          More than likely the team is spending their time on 16. It doesnt make financial sense to put any more work into 15, since most have declared it a disaster.

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                          • Majingir
                            Moderator
                            • Apr 2005
                            • 47739

                            #14
                            Re: NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement

                            Originally posted by mjarz02
                            More than likely the team is spending their time on 16. It doesnt make financial sense to put any more work into 15, since most have declared it a disaster.
                            And people have said that about NHL15 when NHL 14 was out. And about NHL14 when NHL13 was out. And about NHL13 when NHL12 was out.......You get the point.

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                            • mikey87
                              Rookie
                              • Oct 2012
                              • 134

                              #15
                              Re: NHL 15 Leaves Fans Disappointed Again with Overhyped 'New Era' Announcement

                              Originally posted by Majingir
                              Unless EA fixes up their games big time or I just get real stupid/desperate to play a new EA NHL game years from now, I won't ever be buying a EA Sports NHL game again.

                              I've been playing NHL video games for 15 years now and at one point, EA Sports was even my fave company out there, but that has quickly changed and now I hate EA Sports almost as bad as I hated THQ(thankfully THQ is dead now).

                              They just refuse to fix some of the major gameplay problems in the game(too few penalties,too many passing issues,CPU gets so many rebounds/rebound goals,puck control for the users are horrible,and sliders in general are broken)
                              Just like they refuse the make player attributes affect anything. I like playing "coach mode" and I really can't see any difference between John Scott and Nathan Gerbe... And that is why I don't play their games anymore, NHL 13 was so bad that I couldn't persuade myself to buy 14 or 15.

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