50.43% of goalie gear is MISSING
Out of 117 active NHL/AHL goalies I’ve tracked gear of, these are the stats for pads I have: (In bold are the goalie gear sets that are not included in NHL 23.) Custom Bauer: 9 Bauer Hyperlite: 7 ...
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@MATTDALOR1AN And of course a Goalie mask creator. Maybe the devs do not know that each Goalie has his own mask design.
- That would be really sick. Even something as simple as choosing the base color, and then customizing the wires and adding logos around the helmet. Could be easy or more intricate
- @Froommey They aren't gonna let us create our own masks for the most part because somehow we would abuse it and people wouldn't be happy with a limited amount of generic options.
@MATTDALOR1AN Go look at FIFA selling like 8-10mil copies a year of pathes and making huge bank off Ultimate Team. And actually the equipment manufacturers do have the say in what of their products can be put into the game. Hell back in the day it took a bunch of work when they added Brodeur's goalie mask to the game because they had to pay person who designed it.
Hell when it comes to custom stuff there is so much red tape of what you own/don't own it's unreal. 2K got sued by a tattoo artist for having his tattoo which is on the wrestler Randy Orton in real life but apparently they also needed the artists permission to have it in the video game.
All the sports games are just a huge patch these days. You will see maybe something big every 4-5yrs. They have to charge the price because things like the NHL license alone cost like 3-4mil a year to use. Then add in the legends, other leagues, etc. It's why we pay an arm and a leg for what many consider a patch.
I'm sure one of these days we will just get Madden, NHL, EA Soccer 4ever. And it will be some subscription based model where if we want to play a year we are still spending the same amount of money anyway.I highly doubt True, etc. told EA "hey don't include our gear that could possibly influence audiences to checking out our products and buy it, thanks to it being in the game."
But you brought up a great point that I didn't discuss, @KlariskraysNHL.
DaveArt teased November 4, 2020 on social media that he's teaming up with EA Sports. It's been two years... are his masks coming in the game? That would be super beneficial to having nice looking aesthetics.
@MATTDALOR1ANIf I had to guess that deal probably fell thru seeing as EA would have to pay him each iteration to keep masks in the game. Probably an area they felt the price isn't worth a profit margin gain.
Or he created some generic ones we already got in the game
