NHL 15 News Post

NHL 15 Might Be Missing More Than We Anticipated (XB1/PS4)

03:15 PM - September 4, 2014 by RaychelSnr

Now that the EA Access trial period has started, Xbox One players have noticed that the list of missing modes and features in next-gen NHL 15 is much larger than previously expected. In a prior interview with Sean Ramjagsingh, some of these were hinted at but not fully disclosed, but the depth of some of the gutted features seems to be larger than initially anticipated. The following items are features which users have noticed are missing while playing the early access to NHL 15 -- keep in mind this information is preliminary and some of these could actually be in the game but well hidden. With just six hours of time to test, it doesn't leave much room to explore:

Modes/Features

No GM Connected
No Online Team Play (when this is patched into the game later this year, it will use real NHL players and teams)
No EA Sports Hockey League
No EA Sports Arena
No Online Shootouts
No Live the Life
No Be A Legend
No Winter Classic
No tournaments or Battle for the Cup
No season mode (you can only play seasons in Be A GM, which is limited to NHL teams)
No NHL 94 Anniversary mode
No custom music support
No create-a-play designer
Cannot customize each team's AI
No create-a-team
No way to edit individual players
Practice mode is now limited to one skater vs. an AI goalie

Gameplay

No custom camera option
No Action Tracker replay highlights
No Top 3 Stars at the end of games.

Be A GM

Yearly draft is fully automated by the CPU
Cannot play the AHL games for your chosen franchise
Players sent down to the minors do not accumulate any season stats
No fantasy draft option
No preseason games

Be A Pro

No option to sim ahead to the next shift
You only play in the NHL; you cannot play for minor league teams
The Memorial Cup tryout period is gone. You now begin by picking an NHL team, or by letting a random CPU team draft you.
No All-Star game

Ultimate Team

Cannot play against your friends
No tournaments
No mobile app

All of the above features were available last year in NHL 14 for the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 but appear to be missing this year on the new-generation of consoles. If you have NHL 15 early access and have noticed any of these are actually in the game or if anything additional is missing let us know in the comments below.

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# 61 canucksss @ 09/04/14 05:08 PM

If you buy this game at Thanksgiving, even at $30 for a brand new game, that is counted as sales for EA right? I know its kinda hard to resist buying this game, but once you put your heart to really give the message to EA, dont buy it. Yes even pre-owned game. That way we can really "get even" with this poor effort of EA. Why reward them of $30 or even $20 for a piece of ****?

# 62 areobee401 @ 09/04/14 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by canucksss


	If you buy this game at Thanksgiving, even at $30 for a brand new game, that is counted as sales for EA right? I know its kinda hard to resist buying this game, but once you put your heart to really give the message to EA, dont buy it. Yes even pre-owned game. That way we can really "get even" with this poor effort of EA. Why reward them of $30 or even $20 for a piece of ****?

Buy a used copy a week after release. Wait for some sucker who unknowingly buys the game not knowing what EA removed. You just know it's going to happen.

Only $5 less than retail, but at least your $55 isn't going to EA.

I'm buying the game, removed game modes and all. A basic franchise mode us enough for someone like me who hasn't owned an NHL game in 5 years. I can understand the outrage though.

# 63 bad_philanthropy @ 09/04/14 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jyoung


	You can "scout" prospects throughout the regular season, but once the draft arrives in the offseason, all of your team's picks are made by the CPU. There is no special cutscene or anything. The game just goes from a blank sim screen to "here's your team's randomly generated rookies."

Which is hilarious. Why even have scouting?

Rammer's damage control over EASHL feels like a total smoke and mirrors job—giving an apology over EASHL and citing the team's passion and asking for understanding over technical challenges, and then throws in some kind of nebulous fine print about patching stuff into BaGM mode, and nothing about BAP's steps back. It leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

I don't usually get involved, let alone pissed off at this stuff, but I bought and played hundreds of hours of offline franchise/BaGM/BaP last gen. To me, this is a painful failure by developers. They should have been able to budget and plan this game around the time mandates of the higher ups. Should have just released an NHL 2K6 on Xbox 360 type of game last year, and run with that until the actual next-gen game was ready.

The product isn't finished, there has cleary been some development hell/unforeseen challenges, and now they have run out of time given to release a product. In the end, nobody at EA or the NHL series' customers are going to be happy.

# 64 actionhank @ 09/04/14 05:22 PM

It just blows my mind how this happens. The gameplay looks the same, they've cut a handful of game modes, the goalies play the same...what the hell did get worked on?
I would understand if things were the same that were actually left in since NHL14, but to have game modes with less to do than there was a year ago is mind blowing.

# 65 Splitter77 @ 09/04/14 05:25 PM

but they have all 4 officials on the ice!!
what a joke.

i probably will get nhl15 for ps3 if there are improvements

# 66 MavsUCCB @ 09/04/14 05:27 PM

Congrats on making Madden 2006 EA. You did it again.

# 67 drich @ 09/04/14 05:33 PM

I can't cancel my preorder

# 68 Detroitfan4life1993 @ 09/04/14 05:37 PM

EA Sports It's not in the game?

# 69 believeinnow @ 09/04/14 05:39 PM

It does suck about some of the stuff, they did announce a lot of these weeks ago: http://www.easports.com/nhl/news/2014/nhl-15-game-modes-xbox-one-ps4

Also, we can't really say they 'had two years'. They were making NHL 14, so they only really had one year to shift from PS3/360 to PS4/XB1. I agree, the lack of modes hurts, but isn't it all about the product on the ice anyway?

# 70 Yundtder @ 09/04/14 05:39 PM

Ok... Wow. I may miss this in the answers or somewhere but, please clarify that all of this is ONLY XB1 and PS4, and that 15 for 360 will be normal...

# 71 brandon27 @ 09/04/14 05:40 PM

Amazing... I dont even know what to say.

It's an absolute shame they can release this game, this empty, at full price still. Just ridiculous really.

I was buying, even through all of the previous news of stuff left out because it didnt effect me. However, Be A GM is still there. I still do like to play a hockey game, but the fact I cant draft my own team... as the GM... is pretty ridiculous.

I'm going to play the trial when its done downloading (10% left or so), and its going to really have to blow me away to prevent me from cancelling my preorder and buying it new, day 1. Madden is still going strong for me, Destiny is out soon, Forza Horizon 2... I can wait on this half game until I can find it used or on ebay for cheap. Unless it blows me away, I'm certainly not paying full price for it.

EA has alot of explaining to do IMO. They had 2 years to work on this. It's unacceptable.

# 72 Tatz666 @ 09/04/14 05:42 PM

I'm an offline guy so as long as be a pro was good, I was good too. Now seeing that you can't sim in game, plus memorial cup to determine your draft spot, along with other omissions, I have no choice but to cancel my preorder and wait for either patches or a significant price drop. I can't see spending 60$ on an incomplete game. So disappointing because the demo had me pretty fired up. Guess we'll see how it all plays out next week

# 73 Simple Mathematics @ 09/04/14 05:43 PM

I am canceling my pre-order. I wasted an absolutely incredible amount of time on the revamped rosters and they will not even be possible. I will return next year if we can edit players. An absolutely massive disappointment.

# 74 gopher_guy @ 09/04/14 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by canucksss


	If you buy this game at Thanksgiving, even at $30 for a brand new game, that is counted as sales for EA right? I know its kinda hard to resist buying this game, but once you put your heart to really give the message to EA, dont buy it. Yes even pre-owned game. That way we can really "get even" with this poor effort of EA. Why reward them of $30 or even $20 for a piece of ****?

The game will be worth $30. The second I see it on sale for half price I'm for sure buying it.

They'll see all the cancelled pre-orders, and they'll for sure notice it if people buy it at $30 instead of $60.

# 75 sweetjones @ 09/04/14 05:45 PM

hmmm! I see people on facebook saying this is the full game but not full access.

IDK...I dont see the devs having time to write up code for a timer to block features and and unlock the game at midnight of 9/8.

# 76 ericromain @ 09/04/14 05:46 PM

Yikes that's an ugly list. Action tracker is a huge loss, and i'll miss custom music. Actually my wife use to flip a lot of cards on the HUT app, she enjoyed doing it, That's going to hurt my progress.

# 77 MavsUCCB @ 09/04/14 05:53 PM

It's pretty sad when I'm reading about the Tecmo Bowl 2015 rom and it looks like it has more features than NHL 15

# 78 Panther84 @ 09/04/14 05:53 PM

Look on the bright side boys by NHL 18 those will all be back! SMH someone at EA has to take accountability and get fired! this game should be priced at $29.99 since it's missing half a game.

# 79 EliJ27 @ 09/04/14 05:54 PM

wow...What did you even work on for two years?

# 80 spidertour02 @ 09/04/14 05:57 PM

You guys know that I have been one of the more positive guys on the board with regards to the game, and I still planned to buy it. But this ... holy sh!t.

This is a joke. What were they doing all this time? Why bother to get AHL teams if you can no longer use them in Be A GM/Pro? What's the point of scouting if the draft is automated? How the heck are we supposed to play Be A Pro without being able to Sim to Shift? This game is broken and unfinished.

I would LOVE to hear Rammer and Co. try to spin their way out of this. It's garbage. GARBAGE.

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