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Quote: Originally Posted by Hollywood88

Great read. And you touched on something that I'm surprised the masses have not picked up on. My beef is two part. First is obvious. The missing modes, the secrecy, the lies that were uttered, all in the hope that the questions would go away and you would just buy the damn game. Worst, for people who don't follow the development of games. Those people were straight up burned. But that's was EA wanted. If they truly cared about the consumer they would have put the game out at a much lower price to justify the lack of modes. Second part and this burns me more is the people who bought the game that knew it was watered down because they just had to have a hockey game. Those people are truly hurting the evolution of sports video games because they are telling EA through their purchase that they can get away with this kind of nonsense and the followers will just buy anything put out. Once you make that purchase ea wins and the sports gaming community loses. So buying it and then saying that the game is no good or boring or there's not much to do doesnt help the sports gaming market at all. You really think EA is listening. All ea cares about is reporting in their quarterly report to the stock holders that their game exceeded its sales projections. And if it doesn't and the stock price takes a dive, executives notice because it hurts then in their pockets. And thus people who make these horrible decisions get fired. If you don't like NHL15, do your part and stand up to the corporation and don't buy the game. Don't buy it when it drops in price. If you have to have it buy it used.

This is pretty much my take on EA for all of its games. Then again, I always wait for reviews first so I don't have this problem. Even though NHL 15's gameplay was perceived as quite good, and yes, GAMEPLAY IS KING, doesn't mean it didn't deserve the score it got with all the missing modes. This is why you read reviews, because you would know the gameplay isn't the problem. In a weird way, I'm not disappointed in people who bought NHL 15 because the gameplay is actually fine. Usually people buy games where the modes are present and the gameplay is bad/average just because they "need" a game for their desired sport, something I like to call the Madden problem. Of course, NHL 15 as a whole package is lacking, especially since its 2014 lmao However, I wouldn't fault a hockey fan for getting the game at a REDUCED PRICE, but even as a hockey fan, you're wasting your money getting it full price.