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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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.
@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.
