EA's Priorities
Rather than taking the True Broadcast thread off topic, I thought it best to create a new thread for this. @EA_Aljoyou were talking about different teams within the NHL team working on different a...
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EA_Aljo
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@VeronicatheCD wrote:
You stated that you, yourself, are unconcerned with presentation. You only care about the gameplay being authentic - and I am guessing that the majority of the dev team feels just like you do. They don't care about presentation - they probably don't care about offline play. They are creating a game that simply fits their needs and they don't have the perspective that a lot of your customers have.
That is my personal feeling. It has absolutely nothing to do with how everyone else feels. I was just using myself, a fan of the game, as to what my personal priorities are when someone commented that the game was ruined for everyone because of the changes to presentation. What I personally like about the game does not speak for everyone here. I get into some very competitive gameplay so I'm not noticing presentation as much due to my immersion in the actual gameplay. For example, I turn off all the music, I skip cut scenes and the commentary is turned way down. I like to focus on gameplay alone. I barely even touch my EASHL player other than the actual build.
We all have different likes and dislikes. Please don't assume that everyone here feels the same as I do.
Thank you for all the feedback. I just wanted to clear this one part up.
- @EA_Aljo While your personal preferences may not necessarily reflect upon the dev team - the direction of the game points in that direction and you struggle to get them to give answers; I'm sure you lack the power to single-handedly direct game development. Therefore, your preferences must be common among the dev team or with whomever is in charge.
I had assumed that of the team before you mentioned your preferences. Your sharing your preferences were just a point to tie to, not something I've built my understanding of the dev team upon.- EA_Aljo
@VeronicatheCD wrote:
@EA_Aljo While your personal preferences may not necessarily reflect upon the dev team - the direction of the game points in that direction and you struggle to get them to give answers; I'm sure you lack the power to single-handedly direct game development. Therefore, your preferences must be common among the dev team or with whomever is in charge.
I had assumed that of the team before you mentioned your preferences. Your sharing your preferences were just a point to tie to, not something I've built my understanding of the dev team upon.I'll say it again, my preferences are my own and do not reflect the dev team at all. You're certainly entitled to your assumptions, but they are simply not true.
- @EA_Aljo Again, the preferences of the dev team are pretty obvious. They reflect in the game. If the dev team or whoever is making the decisions would care about presentation they wouldn't have removed full presentation, for example.
Literally every single NHL game from the last 20 years have superior presentation to NHL 23. The presentation in the NHL 2k games from the early 2000's are so much better than EA's NHL games of today it's laughable. The people who made those games cared about presentation. EA clearly don't.
- @EA_Aljo Yeah but if there were people on that dev team who actually cared about presentation then the game would have decent presentation.
The presentation in NHL 23 is probably the worst presentation I've ever seen in any sports game. A LOT of people seem to agree.
So the preferences of anyone with any influence whatsoever at EA NHL are pretty obvious.
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