Maybe it’s time to rethink yearly releases
So for years I’ve been a believer in sports games needing more than a 9 month dev cycle. This year though, with the smaller dev team for nhl, it’s obvious there just isn’t enough time to actually mak...
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Well if that’s the case then it’s a 1 time buy for the offline modes anyways which works out cheaper for offline players when compared to them spending $80+ a year for a mode that doesn’t change for 5+ years at a time.
If EA wants to sell their offline modes each year, then they would have no choice but to put time and effort into it, or why would you pay it again?
Like common, if EA released Be a Pro, next year, the exact same as it’s been the previous 2-3 years, would you buy it? No there would be no point, because it’s literally identical
@TITAN_NHL wrote:Well if that’s the case then it’s a 1 time buy for the offline modes anyways which works out cheaper for offline players when compared to them spending $80+ a year for a mode that doesn’t change for 5+ years at a time.
If EA wants to sell their offline modes each year, then they would have no choice but to put time and effort into it, or why would you pay it again?
Like common, if EA released Be a Pro, next year, the exact same as it’s been the previous 2-3 years, would you buy it? No there would be no point, because it’s literally identical
Going by that theory why do people buy it now? The subtractions and additions each year doesn't balance the books at all.
- @DeMiGoD1988 well they don’t. Sales are steadily declining every year since NHL 15.
@Greyinsi wrote:
@DeMiGoD1988well they don’t. Sales are steadily declining every year since NHL 15.And unfortunately there's a direct correlation to the subtractions to the game. If it makes less money and less revenue then there will be less resources are given to the development team and therefore the product won't stand up to expectations every year as a result.
- @DeMiGoD1988 yes that’s true. But you can also look it other way around; less focus on delivering quality game = smaller sales. The lazy copy-paste cycle started after horrible release of next gen NHL 15.
@Greyinsi wrote:
@DeMiGoD1988yes that’s true. But you can also look it other way around; less focus on delivering quality game = smaller sales. The lazy copy-paste cycle started after horrible release of next gen NHL 15.Well NHL 15 was a legacy edition of NHL 14, on ps3 and xbox 360 it was literally called NHL Legacy but it was the same game as 15 just leas graphics and such. If any game was a copy/paste it was 14 to 15. They literally didn't upgrade a thing.
The rest have had subtractions and additions done to them so although similar they're not a copy/paste
