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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@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.
@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
I had ideas where EA did contests to design some jerseys/emblem/goalie mask/equipment from the community by giving us a template. They pick like 3 winners each year and add their mask/jersey/Emblem/ goalie mask/ gear to the game.
Give the grand prize winner(s) a free copy, HUT points, name in credits
2nd and 3rd get a free copy with less hut points.
They pretty much create for EA to own the creations. That way it stays in game and get the community involved in the best way.
@KlariskraysNHL wrote:I had ideas where EA did contests to design some jerseys/emblem/goalie mask/equipment from the community by giving us a template. They pick like 3 winners each year and add their mask/jersey/Emblem/ goalie mask/ gear to the game.
Give the grand prize winner(s) a free copy, HUT points, name in credits
2nd and 3rd get a free copy with less hut points.
They pretty much create for EA to own the creations. That way it stays in game and get the community involved in the best way.
Morally a bad idea. You are asking for people to be low paid contractors for EA and most of them to put in the work for nothing - because their entry isn't accepted.
They either need to make it so you can upload all you want for offline use and require a whitelist request to use online or they need to pay employees or professional contractors to design them. But if EA is taking ownership of the art rather than letting it be uploaded by users (2K definitely had it in the past year's WWE title), then they need to pay people properly for it. I personally favor the open content solution and online players will just have to suck it up.
@KlariskraysNHLwhy not just sign him to a multi-year deal to have his masks in the game? Year-by-year makes no sense
Literally just give me a bunch of masks with a bunch of lines on them that I can colour in and I’ll be happy.
@MATTDALOR1AN wrote: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.
It's probably just the direction of the market. These companies know that it has very little advertising appeal but they can charge licensing fees to include their equipment because it means much more to EA to have it in the game than to them. EA isn't willing to pay for all those versions.
