NHL 17 Q&A - Skating Improvements, Crease Battles, EASHL, Creation Zone & Much More

[DJ NEO]

Quote: Originally Posted by TDKing

No GM Connected 😢. I don't care about hot dog prices. They're bringing back net battles lets see how that works out. Still stuck with stock builds in EASHL. Madden had a big turnover in staff it may be time for NHL to do the same. We need a New vision for the game I think Sent from my VS985 4G using Tapatalk

The lack of vision or ideas is not the problem I think

[Moose24x]

Quote: Originally Posted by Freakywwe

Why post anything if you're just going to complain? Obviously you'll never be happy with the product so why bring everyone else down?

Unless you're suggesting they'll never improve the actual hockey portion of the game in meaningful ways, I don't know why you'd say I'll "obviously never" be happy. They've added a lot of fluff that doesn't have anything to do with playing hockey. If they said they had done just ONE out of: totally revamped player ratings to have great separation, introduced a defensive skill stick, added different skating styles so that not all players look and act the same, totally revamped player development so that players improve/decline more realistically over a long career, totally revamped scouting and the annual draft, totally revamped the trade deadline or annual free agency, I would be posting about how excited I am. They didn't do any of these things that are relevant to hockey. They've added hot dog prices. Why do I care about the team's financials and keeping the owners happy? I care about building and managing a winner ON THE ICE. I don't care about what we pay our equipment manager.

[Caniac94]

Quote: Originally Posted by Moose24x

Unless you're suggesting they'll never improve the actual hockey portion of the game in meaningful ways, I don't know why you'd say I'll "obviously never" be happy. They've added a lot of fluff that doesn't have anything to do with playing hockey. If they said they had done just ONE out of: totally revamped player ratings to have great separation, introduced a defensive skill stick, added different skating styles so that not all players look and act the same, totally revamped player development so that players improve/decline more realistically over a long career, totally revamped scouting and the annual draft, totally revamped the trade deadline or annual free agency, I would be posting about how excited I am. They didn't do any of these things that are relevant to hockey. They've added hot dog prices. Why do I care about the team's financials and keeping the owners happy? I care about building and managing a winner ON THE ICE. I don't care about what we pay our equipment manager.

This is one thing that annoys me. EA have put all this time and effort into little things that I'll quickly get bored with. Be it visual elements like the crowd or the arena (which we don't really see in detail anyway) or having to manage little finances or dealong with player morale. Come to think of it there seems to be little to no attention payed to what's actually happening on the ice. Don't get me wrong, the things mentioned above are nice for their respective game modes but please, please get the gameplay down FIRST then incorporate more features into game modes. Gameplay is the most important thing here and it has been the same for years. Player separation is the biggest thing for me. I wish they could focus on that at least and I'd be happy.

[asu666]

I am excited for the Owner features making it into the game. NHL 16 is solid and a lot of fun, so NHL 17 is at the top of my wish list.

[Caniac94]

One more thing (it's late and my thoughts are starting to mesh):

I am excited about 100 point sliders. Hopefully this allows for more flexibility in tweaking the game more to my taste. I really think that's a huge step forward (assuming the sliders actually work).

[Honome]

No defensive stick is totally inexcusable. I guess this will be the year i'll skip NHL at launch because i am sure gameplay changes will be minimal from all that I'm reading.

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[HartmanTeets6]

Create a team vs. relocation. Obviously the relocation only has 15 cities, and he said for Franchise mode. Is everyone thinking that means our created team, can't be played in franchise, but that we'll have to relocate? I was looking forward to creating a new team, sub them out for a crappy, existing team, and play that way.

[wheels2121]

I agree. I want to put Hartford and Quebec in for Florida and Tampa. Why bother creating a team if you can't play them in the league?