More arenas to NHL 25

Hi there, @petteri54 

Thanks for the input on arenas. Appreciate it 🙂

Tampere new "Nokia arena" is called "finnish Madison Square Garden". (Source)  This arena is home arena of Tappara and Ilves teams. It's also nowadays unofficial home arena of Finnish national team.

Model even few smaller generic stadiums to the game. Example many finnish Liiga arenas are with 4000-5000 capacity small arenas. In FC24 there is approximately 30 generic stadiums but in NHL only 2.

Realistic arenas = Better atmosphere.

@EA_Aljo 
May I ask why in the game home arena of Switzerland, Canada and USA national teams are generic EA Sport Arena? The game would already have the arenas of Bern, Ottawa and Washington, the capitals of the countries. Why you can't use those arenas also for national teams?

@petteri54 

I'm sorry to say, I don't have any information on that.

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@petteri54 wrote:

@EA_Aljo 
May I ask why in the game home arena of Switzerland, Canada and USA national teams are generic EA Sport Arena? The game would already have the arenas of Bern, Ottawa and Washington, the capitals of the countries. Why you can't use those arenas also for national teams?

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@petteri54This is very good question.

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@petteri54 wrote:

More arenas to NHL 25. Example these:

• Tampere Deck Arena "Nokia Arena" in Tampere, Finland
• Globen in Stockholm, Sweden
• Helsinki Ice Hall in Helsinki, Finland
• Scandinavium in Göteborg, Sweden
• 02 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic

On March 7, 2024 Metro published this article: https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/07/ea-thinks-ai-can-double-audience-make-games-quicker-develop-20422613/ 
"According to him it has previously taken six months to build a 3D stadium model for a sports game, but by using AI they’ve already been able to get that down to six weeks, and they think they can get that down to as little as six days in the future."
Hopefully we will see more stadiums in NHL game too?

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@petteri54@EA_Aljo
These arenas should be added to NHL 25
- Nokia Arena (Tampere, Finland)
- Gatorade Center (Turku, Finland)
- Helsinki Halli (Helsinki, Finland)
- Helsinki Ice Hall (Helsinki, Finland)
- Globen Arena(Stockholm, Sweden)
- Scandinavium (Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Malmö Arena (Malmö, Sweden)
- O2 Arena (Prague, Czechia)
- Uber Arena [formerly Mercedes-Benz Arena) (Berlin, Germany)
- Lanxess Arena (Cologne, Germany)
- SAP Arena (Mannheim, Germany)
- Swiss Life Arena (Zürich, Swirzerland)

Put in all Swedish hockey League arenas!

I also think it should be possible to choose the arena you play in when doing a quick match ad in ea fc so we can play with any team in any arena that is in the game.

As mentioned by the OP, it takes a lot of time and resources to put together a 3D model of an arena, but hopefully in the future it might be more feasible.