NHL 15 Hasn't Updated Its Player Ratings Since Launch

[tyler289]

Pretty much par for the course for these guys.

[addybojangles]

But people asked for IMPROVED PRESENTATION so they focused their time on that.

/Sarcasm

After putting nearly one thousand games into both NHL 13 and NHL 14, news like this makes me very glad I voted with my wallet and skipped this year.

What an embarrassment.

[DJ NEO]

Quote: Originally Posted by addybojangles

But people asked for IMPROVED PRESENTATION so they focused their time on that. /Sarcasm After putting nearly one thousand games into both NHL 13 and NHL 14, news like this makes me very glad I voted with my wallet and skipped this year. What an embarrassment.

Well they claim many things, but reality is different.
The presentation basics are almost identical to lastgen, except replays are glitchy.

[MannTooth24]

I didn't buy NHL this year for the first time in years because of the no EASHL deal. Instead of spending time on a roster update for NHL 15, I would rather them focus every minute on NHL 16, and making sure that they release a real, complete game next year.

[Simple Mathematics]

Oh Revamped Rosters..... I miss you.

[bukktown]

I wouldn't say that they are too late to update the ratings at this point in the season, but if they haven't by game 42 then I will be less forgiving.

[speels]

I always find the rating adjustment just causes more problems. They do tend to increase people that are playing well, but they leave players who are having a bad year at their original rating anyway so you just get higher ratings overall.

Of course edit player and total team control would be the best, but we don't have them and there's no plans to add them so let's just let that one go for now.

Me and my buddies have a ball hockey group and we always have a get together around Christmas to have some beers and play some Sega Genesis hockey. This year we picked up NHL 97 for the Genesis and we were messing around with it and I started looking at the rosters and found them quite interesting.

NEW YORK RANGERS
|
| Even-Strength - 5th | Power-Play - 5th |
| Penalty Killing - 14th | Goaltending - 7th |
____|_____________________________________________ ____________________________
Pos | # | Players | Overall |
C | 11 | Mark Messier | 87 |
C | 12 | Ken Gernander | 67 |
C | 13 | Sergei Nemchinov | 75 |
C | 27 | Alexei Kovalev | 87 |

RW | 16 | Pat Verbeek | 75 |
RW | 18 | Bill Berg | 67 |
RW | 22 | Shane Churla | 71 |
RW | 37 | Daniel Lacroix | 67 |

LW | 9 | Adam Graves | 80 |
LW | 15 | Darren Langdon | 64 |
LW | 17 | Jari Kurri | 70 |
LW | 20 | Luc Robitaille | 75 |
LW | 24 | Niklas Sundstrom | 73 |
LW | 32 | Sergio Momesso | 74 |

RD | 23 | Jeff Beukeboom | 68 |
RD | 25 | Alexander Karpovtsev | 68 |
RD | 33 | Bruce Driver | 71 |
RD | 55 | Marty McSorley | 70 |

LD | 2 | Brian Leetch | 83 |
LD | 4 | Kevin Lowe | 66 |
LD | 5 | Ulf Samuelsson | 74 |
LD | 6 | Doug Lidster | 66 |

G | 35 | Mike Richter | 81 |
G | 30 | Glenn Healy | 71 |

Sorry it's not lined up better, but you see the point. The range on a good team like the Rangers is 66 to 87. Lemieux was highest at 100 along with a couple others, but the guys that weren't great were rated as such Gtrezky was only an 88 because of his decline in skills by then. Most teams in 15 are 80-100 now and that is the problem. I just wish when EA updated the rosters they would use this wider spread like they used to and make the 3rd and 4th liners play just like that.

[Moose24x]

This is a real big problem in my life right now. I actually went and created new versions of Forsberg and Lehtera and moved the originals to national teams because they stand out as the most egregiously mis-rated players to me, but I can't do that for every guy like Hayes and Duclair on my Rangers or guys like Mirco Mueller who is playing regularly for SJ but is something like a 69. In the baffling - literally probably my biggest gripe with any game I've played this decade - absence of the ability to edit players, the LEAST EA could do is update the ratings now that we can see which rookies are sticking around, which young players have taken steps forward and which older players have declined.