Time For A New Hockey Game
Just got beat my a brand new team with lessor players that his 83 Dougie Hamilton and his Tyler Myers were faster than my Connor McDAvid and my Dylan Larkin. I just don't know what to say anymore. I...
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As I'm sure has been said on these forums before, EA does not have an exclusive contract with the NHL to make ice hockey video games like it does with the NFL.
Any other developer could make a deal with the NHL for licensing rights. That it hasn't happened in the decade since 2K stopped making their NHL game would suggest that either the NHL's asking price is too high or the estimated revenue versus cost of developing a game is too low.
It's unfortunate that EA has used it's place as the only option for gamers in the hockey space to pump out iterations of the game in the past few years that has pivoted away from simulation hockey to some sort of arcade hockey that is more concerned with deke moves and licensed pond hockey wear than anything else.
@QUIETLIFE68 It's unfortunate that EA has used it's place as the only option for gamers in the hockey space to pump out iterations of the game in the past few years that has pivoted away from simulation hockey to some sort of arcade hockey that is more concerned with deke moves and licensed pond hockey wear than anything else.
Totally agree with that and I think a lot of people feel the same way. It's like they make this game now to please a small group of people. Why, I don't know but the gameplay of this game has nothing to do with real hockey. If you’re an experience hockey player and NHL23 is your first experience, forget how you learned to play hockey if you want to win games.
@Raven969 wrote:@QUIETLIFE68 It's unfortunate that EA has used it's place as the only option for gamers in the hockey space to pump out iterations of the game in the past few years that has pivoted away from simulation hockey to some sort of arcade hockey that is more concerned with deke moves and licensed pond hockey wear than anything else.
Totally agree with that and I think a lot of people feel the same way. It's like they make this game now to please a small group of people. Why, I don't know but the gameplay of this game has nothing to do with real hockey. If you’re an experience hockey player and NHL23 is your first experience, forget how you learned to play hockey if you want to win games.
Nailed it. There's nothing hockey about this hockey game anymore except for the aesthetics. They watered the gameplay down to cater to a bunch of people who promote their packs on yt. The rest of us don't matter. We provide video after video, year after year, only to have the same problems for 3,4,5 years in a row. They can fix these things. It's a choice not to. We've seen them make amazing hockey games. The talent is there. It's the ones making the calls who are ruining this game...or should I say franchise because every game since 14 has been a disaster. 8 years of below mediocre games in a row. Maybe it's time to stop saying they listen, and actually start SHOWING they listen because at this rate, by NHL25, they'll have driven a majority of their customers to the point of saving their money for games that actually show some effort put into them.
