NHL Series from EA is a Model for Post-Release Support

[nyj721]

maybe the guys behind this series should be given the keys to ea

[LuGer33]

Great read, and very true.

[H to the Oza]

I never noticed how all the cover athletes wear red jerseys

[johnnydangerously]

@ H to the Oza

And their teams all start with "C". Odd!

[bowlerguy92]

Accept for the fact that: Chat still hardly works online (three years in a row), you lockup if you idle anywhere in the online section of the game, you don't get credit in ranked games if the team quits even 1 second before the game ends, the "pro shop" sometimes takes minutes to open, and player cards don't unlock correctly online resulting in pointless play working towards nothing. Thanks EA, you guys do provide great support.

[aBiNeR1]

Curious, is EA Sport's post-release support supposed to be a model for sports gaming or the gaming industry as a whole?

[acarrero]

EA's Fight Night 4 also had great post-release support. I have not played the NHL series, but Fight Night had numerous patches where they clearly listened to the OS community making changes to gameplay, they had numerous add-ons (like new boxers, though you had to pay for most), and included features like boxershare which added to the experience. EA is doing a good job of post-release support with some of its titles and it's a great new thing for gaming.

[jyoung]

I believe Fight Night was an EA Canada project, too.

The Canada teams seem to do the best out of all the EA dev. groups.