NHL 15 Post-Launch Content Update

[DirtyJerz32]

Sooooo what this tells me is yes, they're committed to bringing us a full featured game. It also tells me that they're releasing an unfinished product for $60.

[bad_philanthropy]

I've been playing the series since NHLPA, and invested most of my annual gaming hours into gen 3 offerings from '07-14 in the offline dynasty and Be a GM.

I understand you have to be very careful with what you say about anything, really, but is it the team's intention to achieve as deep an experience in Be a GM, BaP, and EASHL as on gen 3, or might we see a new direction of more simplified gameplay modes?

[EASPORTSNHL]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

What was the reason Madden and FIFA were able to port non-gameplay offline mode features to gen 4 and NHL wasn't? I understand M25 and FIFA were sort of "cross-gen" games, but what made NHL the exception in the inability to port functioning offline GM and BaP modes as a holdover before a more robust experience could be implemented in future iterations? I can understand the technical problems of implementing EASHL into new tech, and getting up to 12 users playing at once, but why did the offline modes take such a hit as well? Additionally, such standard features in sports games like player editing.

We had a very legacy codebase which made it difficult to add new game modes features. A big part of rebuilding the offline modes that made it into 15 was rebuilding the code base so that we are set up to build bigger and better features on this generation in a more efficient manner because of a better technical base. (apologies for the run on sentence)

-rammer

[BoostedStig]

How about an update to include the United Center? I mean really, the Blackhawks are only one of the best teams in the league, from the 3rd largest city in the country.

Think about that, Chicago is a huge market to sell games to, why not bend over backwards to get it done?

Considering the cost of tickets to Blackhawks games, with 2 cups in the past 5 years, have skyrocketed both through the box office and even more so in the aftermarket. Those of us who live here would love to see the inside of a stadium that not all of us can afford game tickets to every season. It would be absolutely sick during the intro to be able to have the camera pan past the "Welcome to the Madhouse" signage inside the arena.

I know there are licensing issues, I get that. I'm just hoping it gets done for NHL16. I'm sick of this 'Chicago Stadium' where they only blow the airhorn twice instead of three times for a Hawks goal.

[nattylite29]

If we start a GM mode once the draft is patched in will that existing save be able to support the updated draft patch

[angelstrout]

Is season mode going to be added, this is another mode that a lot of people are asking for. In essence until EA gets all the modes in the majority of us won't purchase.


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[EASPORTSNHL]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

I've been playing the series since NHLPA, and invested most of my annual gaming hours into gen 3 offering from '07-14. I understand you have to be very careful with what you say about anything, really, but is it the team's intention to achieve as deep an experience in Be a GM, BaP, and EASHL as on gen 3, or might we see a new direction of more simplified gameplay modes?

Great question...you will see depth come back in each of those modes. The simplification was simply due to time.

-rammer

[rynecandy]

I'll wait for a store to have it on sale for $40. I feel comfortable paying that amount for the game that took so much out, whether or not, it was warranted. Feels like EA was patting their own back saying how they didn't want to rush out a next gen game and have it lacking, and that is what they did (even w/ the extra year).