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Latest NHL 15 Roster Continues Season-Long Trend Of Lackluster Updates

10:38 AM - March 9, 2015 by Steve_OS

Two big-name, high-potential players, Tyler Myers and Evander Kane, began a month-long, league-wide trading frenzy back on February 11. It took Electronic Arts until March 7 to finally get that big-time Winnipeg/Buffalo trade (along with the 44 other transactions made since then) into NHL 15.

A few minutes, however, is all that it took for the company's Twitter account to tweet out a picture of Kane and Myers in their new uniforms, right after that trade became official.

Read More - Latest NHL 15 Roster Continues Season-Long Trend Of Lackluster Updates (Written by Jayson Young)

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# 21 G_e_e_z_e_r @ 03/14/15 09:52 PM

Anyone who thinks they are working hard on 16 is a lot more optimistic then me. Isn't that what they said when they skipped next gen for 14? Then they release a game with two game play modes...lol

When 6 of the 10 touted features for 16 are...Zamboni racing, big head hockey, Hut web app, Hut play a friend, Hut Manager tasks and Hut online tournaments i have no faith in 16 being any good.

The only thing that will save video game hockey is if a new game enters the picture. EA is only interested in Hut.

# 22 jpollack34 @ 03/14/15 10:57 PM

I don't get it. You have this whole passionate hockey community (which seems to be getting smaller because people are increasingly pissed off) ready to contribute and customize the game for you and yet you remove editing and modding features. The whole industry is moving in that direction and they just refuse to change their model. Makes no sense whatsoever. From a business perspective especially. Hello... Your losing fans!

# 23 hydroshubong @ 03/15/15 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by jpollack34


	I don't get it. You have this whole passionate hockey community (which seems to be getting smaller because people are increasingly pissed off) ready to contribute and customize the game for you and yet you remove editing and modding features. The whole industry is moving in that direction and they just refuse to change their model. Makes no sense whatsoever. From a business perspective especially. Hello... Your losing fans!

They don't care, they just want to keep those who play HUT!

# 24 actionhank @ 03/16/15 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by hydroshubong


	They don't care, they just want to keep those who play HUT!

Sadly, this seems to be the way things are heading. I know the development team gets a lot of flak, but there's only so much they can do when the EA execs are telling them to focus on HUT because it makes them money. It's hard for a game mode like Be a GM or any of the others to compete for attention when they can make so much off of advertisements and HUT card packs.

I would love if they would just make HUT a separate game entirely, and focus a group only on the online and offline gameplay modes left over. The Show has proved what dedicated fanbases can do, and more importantly what a good development team can do. It's such a letdown to see multiple livestreams that end up being multiple hours in length, where the developers sit down and play the game showing off their new improvement and taking questions from the community, then thinking back to the NHL15 release that was possibly the least involved release they've ever had. No real gameplay footage (which seemed to be understandable when the leaked gameplay did come out, many suddenly stopped looking forward to the release) and an almost complete lack of communication from the development team in the weeks leading up and following the release.

I'm hoping that the EA team has just shifted full gear into NHL16, and that's why pretty much all that comes out of the NHL social media is promotional material for HUT and pointless questions about who everyone thinks will do what. I'm really hoping that NHL16 is a great bounce-back title, and we get the customization and gameplay that we had, and have been asking for. I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic. I was so excited for NHL15, and spent the months before release looking for PS4 sales so i could grab a copy on release day, but as information started to come out from channels other than EA, it started to look like it wasn't going to be much more than NHL14 with a shiny coat of paint (in my opinion).

I'm going to follow development as best i can, and keep posting here because of the great community, but if NHL16 ends up being a flop, I will probably just write off the NHL series all together. Here's hoping they prove me wrong.

# 25 Beukeboom_23 @ 03/17/15 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by G_e_e_z_e_r


	Anyone who thinks they are working hard on 16 is a lot more optimistic then me. Isn't that what they said when they skipped next gen for 14? Then they release a game with two game play modes...lol When 6 of the 10 touted features for 16 are...Zamboni racing, big head hockey, Hut web app, Hut play a friend, Hut Manager tasks and Hut online tournaments i have no faith in 16 being any good. The only thing that will save video game hockey is if a new game enters the picture. EA is only interested in Hut.

This right here.

# 26 bayareasports89 @ 03/17/15 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by G_e_e_z_e_r


	Anyone who thinks they are working hard on 16 is a lot more optimistic then me. Isn't that what they said when they skipped next gen for 14? Then they release a game with two game play modes...lol When 6 of the 10 touted features for 16 are...Zamboni racing, big head hockey, Hut web app, Hut play a friend, Hut Manager tasks and Hut online tournaments i have no faith in 16 being any good. The only thing that will save video game hockey is if a new game enters the picture. EA is only interested in Hut.

That's the problem with the EA NHL series. They have become way more Arcadish in their thinking. Once I saw the 3 on 3 hockey feature on the cover of NHL 12 I knew this series was going to get really bad when it comes to simulation hockey. I have always been able to get good sliders to make the game good playing 20 minutes periods but the last two games NHL 14 and 15 have been unbelievably bad when it comes to true simulation hockey. I still bought the last two games because I love hockey and I only play be a gm but I don't see myself buying NHL 16 unless they tune the game to play like a simulation out of the box. This development team is running this series into the ground. It shouldn't take 4 or 5 months to tune the game for 20 minute periods. Hockey isn't a sport that is played in 10 minute periods it is in fact 20 minute periods so tune the game for the real life period length! It's sad that EA doesn't try to put effort into their game because it could bring so many young fans to the game of hockey if they just put effort into the game. Back in the day I used to play hockey games like face off, 2k, and others and it made me fall in love with the game of hockey because they were so awesome. Especially face off. That is still my favorite hockey franchise even after all these years I still miss features that were in that game. If I was the NHL I would sue EA for the misrepresentation of their game because I'm sure that there is numerous others that would get into hockey if a hockey video game was so much like the real NHL because not everyone can afford to go to a NHL game which I'm sure got many of us hooked on Hockey. I live in San Diego as well so being the only one that loved hockey., hockey video games got me hooked on Hockey just as much as going to the games growing up.

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