@rsandersr47We all dream of a better reality for our beloved games, but we also need to accept the reality that is front of us. Do I think NHL 23 is a great game? It's average at best with lots of things that need changed and I'm only talking from an EASHL POV on this. I've said the changes and such I have wanted. I'm gonna wait for NHL 24 to showcase what they are bringing to the table to see if it fits MY needs. If I feel I'll get another 200+hrs of enjoyment out of the game then I will buy it Day 1. If a game doesn't meet my standards then I simply don't buy it. No one is forced to buy a product they don't like to, but instead they choose to. Like you want some story to go with your created player in the EASHL and I respect that, but for me that isn't my desire. I just want better gameplay and more than anything I want them to give me 120fps/2k or even 120/1080 graphic mode on the next-gen systems. I want the product I'm actually controlling to be the best experience because that is what I am playing 500+ games of. For me a story just falls flat and would probably not get changed yearly.
Also your suggestion of charging to increase your player slightly to start. Thing is that money would go into investor pockets and not back into the game. Just like the Ultimate Team money made. It doesn't get funneled back into the game how you would want it to. There was an article years ago that said how that type of money goes into funding new projects, marketing, and most of all investors. Games for the most part are based on the actual amount of units they predict to sell in certain periods of time. We have CEOs of companies making too much money for doing next to nothing when the real talent making the games goes underpaid and underappreciated
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1677158387417595904
People love to praise the NBA 2K series, but if you go and check out their reddit and such they aren't happy either. The PC version still isn't getting the next-gen update. So they getting a copy n paste of the current version with roster changes and missing features. Then their new addition The City for the created player stuff. Yeah check out the reaction to that here.. https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments/14tf9ti/is_the_city_the_worst_change_that_2k_has_ever/
@KlariskraysNHLYeah I knew what the copy and paste comment was suggesting. I just wanted to point out how EA is worse in this department as all their games are cut and paste and they don't have a PC version at all.
My suggestion was to show ways NHL could make more money and you said it wouldn't help the game but now we're talking about NBA making more because they sell more copies? I guess I just dont understand how both of those can work.. personally I say NBA is better because it makes more money.. but it's also making so much because it's a lot better. Look at NHL vs NBA sales since NBA 2K started making games and how the gap just keeps growing. It's clear the company invests in their game. They're also okay with taking a year off if people are upset enough (see WWE 2K)
