NHL Community Committee

[HouseKeepinItReal]

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Eashl and the Nhl series needs to create a realistic hockey experience. The AI needs to look less robotic.No more sticks hiding/ghosting through boards or other players. Hardcore hockey fans deserve better. There should be lines in EASHL. For each position you create 4 players or 3 depending on defense. The goalies need work. The game speed needs to be turned down.

More player editing. Body types, long legs/arms. small frame/big broad frame.

More ratings. Back-hand shot. Backwards skating.

No more backhand shots where the player's stick is out in front of him and he does not even properly corral the puck or even load the shot just sort of backhand snapper Mcwrister topshelf cheese from the toe of the blade.

better match-making in the eashl lobbies.

eashl SHOOTOUTS for OT.

dynamic ratings and ability to max out.

ability to vote people out of lobbies for inactivity and just plain immaturity.

eashl goalies need to be able to control their sticks, lay them down, and even have the ability to lose their stick. they need more animations and save types.

personally i don't even want to help out in any direct way as i doubt i'll have any lasting effect. I just hope EA sports dies out and makes way for a new game altogether. hockey fans deserve better. Basketball and Baseball fans got it best.

Edit: This being said. The gameplay for next gen has stepped it up a lot and I have enjoyed my experience so far. so good luck to all those who apply. be sure to mention the above.

[tbayjordan]

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I haven't played much EASHL but I have played every version of NHL since I owneda Sega Genesis. I think it's a great mode to get together and play in a league with friends and all. But, what about the rest of us who don't care for online play and HUT? Are we left out in the cold? Don't we get a say in how to make this game better?

Why do I feel that this game's future is going to be completely tied up in online play and all the offline modes, that have made it the best hockey game ever, are just never going to come back?

I'm hoping that NHL 15 is suffering from lack of offline features such as Fantasy Draft, Edit Player, Tournament Mode, Live The Life, Creat-A-Team, GM Mode (controlling AHL games), Custom Music, and Winter Classic just because of the transition to next gen consoles.

If this is not the case maybe 2K Sports should come back and show you how to make a hockey game fun again. 2K was an ok game, never as smooth as EA, but they had a ton of more fun options than EA. Like the Legends teams. I had such high hopes when EA introduced this feature with the 100 year Montreal Canadians team a few years back. My hopes were quickly dashed when this team was taken out the next year, but it was replaced by a Legends Teams. This Legends team including 8 or 9 HOF players and then just a bunch of current players thrown in. Ok, it was a good start. Nthe following year EA announced a new crop of legends. I was excited. Then disappointed when these new Legends replaced the ones from last year. WTF? Why can't they just make real legends teams.

Take the Original Six teams and give us all time teams with the. Even charge us extra for them. Something like $4.99 a team or all 6 for $24.99. We know that EA is all about the dollars at this point (pre orders, HUT, and Season Ticket). If you want our money, actually give us some value for it, not just a game that is practically a Beta version and then "content updates" that add in game modes that should have already been there on release day.

If you want to "add new modes" why not do something crazy and actually add them. Why not an All Star Skills Competition. Who remembers the early versions of NHL? I believe it was 96 or 97 where EA had a skills competition in the game. Mit had Accuracy, Breakaway, Puck Relay, etc. why can't we do this now with "super superior next gen consoles"?

Why can't we add new leagues to the game? I live in Canada and I would love to see the USHL, ECHL, or even the NCAA added to the game. Why not? More and more players come from these leagues.we should be able to play them.

Roster sharing would be awesome too. I notice in EA's Madden franchise there is a community option where you can download other people's rosters. Why doesn't EA do this for all their sports games?

Am I the only one who notices this stuff? I don't care if I can play online? With next gen gaming you have to pay every month to play online now anyways, and for me it's not worth it. Give us our game back, or a partial refund for a partial game. I love the NHL franchise and it's the only reason I still play video games into my thirties. But I'm not too crazy with the way things are going. Please EA fix our game, not just online play.

[Gotmilkman24]

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As a co-creator of the Revamped Rosters, my number one game mode is Be A GM. I would absolutely love to be a member of the Community Committee. However, for this first EASHL meeting, I feel that other members of our OS community would have more constructive input than I would. Diehard EASHL fans should be the ones considered here.

If there is a future meeting regarding rosters or BaGM, I will want a spot at the meeting very badly. I could provide a wealth of impactful and game-changing ideas and guidance for both of these topics. I hope the OS community will back me if these meetings occur as I am confident that I could make an enormous impact on these two areas.

This guy for sure hands down.

[CupCrazyManiac]

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Johnny Superbmen was at Community Day in 2013. He didn't save the game any more than the rest of us did.


The community days for every EA Sports game seem like more of a PR stunt than anything that actually improves their games to a significant degree.

[drog1602]

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If its not too late, I would like to put my name into the hat.

1. How long have you been playing EASHL? What is your favorite part about the mode?

I have been playing EASHL since its inception in 08. To me the EASHL is much more than a hockey game, its the social aspect that draws me to this game mode. That is where I would bring my focus to this series and committee. This game mode is about friends and peers.

2. As part of the NHL Community Committee, what part of the mode would you like to directly influence?
As per question one, I would want to influence the social aspect of the game and team building.
3. What makes you the ideal candidate for this committee?
I am a long time user/player, hockey fan, video game fan and a Canadian. Living in Edmonton, long winters and hockey go together.

Thanks for the opportunity
Drog

[Simple Mathematics]

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This guy for sure hands down.

Thanks a lot man.

[actionhank]

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Thanks a lot man.

I'd second that vote, easy. You and BigWill33 could bring a lot.

[Fiddy]

Re: NHL Community Committee

Simple Mathamatics and BigWill..

Id love to throw reasons why I should be considered, but deep down I can't be construtive enough. LOL. Too many years of the same stuff gets me boiling under the surface. Ha.

[emericaridr11]

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funny that Fiddy has last comment, cause I would go with a Vet like him
GO FIDDY!!!!

[mikeymayhem]

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I truly hope either a revamped guy or a slider guru gets the call from EA.

[bwiggy33]

Re: NHL Community Committee

funny that Fiddy has last comment, cause I would go with a Vet like him
GO FIDDY!!!!

Agreed. Throw Shogun into that list as well, as long as he gets a case of beer with it to. With all of the editing Shogun and SimpleMathematics (and the rest of the Revamped team) have done they spend time trying to fix the areas that EA fails to improve. Just based off the man hours of editing that's reason enough to send them. I'm probably like Fiddy though. If I talked to those developers I may have a tendency to go awol if they say something I don't like. That's not my personality at all but this game has frustrated me to no end that it's just hit that point.

[mikeymayhem]

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No update on this whole thing yet hey?

[FBeaule04]

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1. How long have you been playing EASHL? What is your favorite part about the mode?

I played EASHL from it's arrival in NHL 09 and stopped with NHL 13. My favorite part about the mode is that it's just make the game of hockey plain fun when you play with the right people. EASHL is just the kind of mode that has the most ressemblance with the tournaments we had in the basement when we we're 10-12 guys waiting in line to play next.

Last few years though, I've been playing more with making 6 clubs with the best players in the NHL and playing every game while taking a schedule of a 6-teams NHL season of the 50's. With the best players in the game, NHL 13 and 14 were more enjoyable than most modes we're there was shortcomings.


2. As part of the NHL Community Committee, what part of the mode would you like to directly influence?

If I was on the committee, I would like to have a say on AI and the way the game plays overall. My main grief about the EASHL is that it rewards people playing cheap hockey while people trying to play real hockey suffers because the game punish them for not playing "arcady" hockey. There's now way it should be easier in this game to deke out of it's skates a d-man then past a softie behind the goalie with another deke while scoring on a 2 on 0 is tough like crazy because every goalies act like they are made of rubber.

3. What makes you the ideal candidate for this committee?

I'm not an ideal candidate, not even close and I won't pretend it's the case. I understand the pressure of selling a game and that the market for hockey is smaller than it is for football or soccer, but there's something wrong with the NHL game for last few years.

On the other hand, I've been following hockey since I'm 4. I watch every type of hockey, NHL, AHL, CHL, US College Hockey, etc. I attend Quebec Pee-Wee Tournament every year since 1988 to watch the young stars of tomorrow. International hockey is also on the list. Watching Spengler Cup, IIHF Junior Tournament, World Championship. In may, I'll be in Quebec for the Memorial Cup.

Will I pretend I know hockey more than most people? No, I won't say that. What makes me different from most people who watch hockey is that I don't watch the game for the spectacular plays or a team winning. I watch for the details, things I've never saw and the system use by teams to get an edge.

I can't help myself hitting my head on the desk when playing Be A Pro as a D-Man and see for the last three years simulating for next shift and my guy jumping on the ice while we don't have the puck and it's in our own zone. Just that part makes me wonder what the hell is going on in Vancouver for this thing to be there.

Like Fiddy, I won't say I'm an ideal candidate for this committee because this game provided me too many frustrating moments for the last few years to make me as objective I could be, although I'm only hoping that NHL gets back to what it has been for me when I was younger, a way to get me smiling and have fun with friends.

[AdamJones113]

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FYI They closed the parallel thread on the EA forums.

[EASPORTSNHL]

Re: NHL Community Committee

Thanks to everyone who submitted an application!

Voting is now open, check out the original post.

Cheers,
EA NHL Team