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Would be nice to see a time sensitive game like sports games get a price breakdown near the end of the season. My disk got wrecked and refuse to pay another 100$ for a digital download when the seaso...
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Also, (although not confirmed) - NHL 24 will likely hit Game Pass for Xbox in April.
Would've like the NHL to hit the monthly free games for PSN Plus, which has never been on it. Only the other EA sports title have. Would have been good for increasing visibility and population.
NBA 2k was very popular and Soccer is.. well, soccer so it would make sense to put those on PS+ (Golf was added at some point too if I'm not mistaken?); NHL is quite niche all things considered and I doubt EA would want to waste any resources on adding that to even essential tier (though I could see them implementing a free weekend or somethingnif they made a standalone HUT game).
NHL is usually added to the EA Play vault around april/may.
Visibility and population isn't the issue as they already have a decent market waiting - the problem is none of their core base wants to play because they do nothing to fix the series
@TTZ_Dipsy wrote: none of their core base wants to play because they do nothing to fix the seriesI wouldn't say they "do nothing" to fix the series.
They introduced free agents into WoC to allow for more 6v6 games when you only have a 3-4 person club.
Regardless of my personal view of the exhaust engine, it was an effort to add something new to the META. Although I don't necessarily like it, I can absolutely appreciate the effort being put into balancing it out. The changes made to the exhaust engine post-launch have all been net positive. I find it's less impactful than it was during launch and now it seems you really need to earn full pressure. That said, the goalies losing their footing so often just because full pressure is activated still irks me. But. They're trying something new.
Although hardcore sim players hate this - making moves like The Michigan more accessible was a great idea. It still takes skill to pull off and is not something you see scored as often as the negative trolls online will tell you. It adds another exciting element to the gameplay.
Icon passing is a great addition that many people are sleeping on. It takes time and patience to get into the habit of using it and memorizing where each Icon usually is, but once you start adding this to your game, it can open things up. I think sometimes the accuracy of an icon-pass is much higher than a regular RT pass, which I believe has been addressed in recent patches. But it's another example of something added to the game to keep things fresh.
I also don't think EA gets enough credit for adding cross-play. That's a tough technological hurdle to clear for any development team, regardless of how pervasive it was throughout most AAA titles already.
- @KidShowtime1867 While it's nice that they're trying new things, I wish I could understand the thinking behind how they choose new features. There were a lot of us that could see the problems with the pressure system and making hip-checks and the lacrosse goal one-button-press action coming a mile away. And a good chunk of the post-release updates ( which I'll give them credit for, it's a nice change from recent years ) have been spent dialing those changes back to the point where they're a shadow of what they were at release.
I know it won't happen, but I'd love to see a year where they spend more time refining the on-ice gameplay and worry less about having "back of the box" wiz-bang features.
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