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PhantomlWarrior
Seasoned Newcomer
2 months ago

NHL 25 hut rewards

Just making sure EA knows how bad they dropped the ball with hut rewards,  and hopefully there going to fix it quickly …. Can anyone confirm ? The mode is dying before it starts 

  • TTZ_Dipsylet me try to help. First, let me say that I have purchased every nhl game since nhl94 and im a huge fan of the game.  I also became a fan of the hut game mode when it started back in nhl11.  I always buy the  early access version and I have played every beta.  Nhl25 gameplay is great ! I love it so far and I love the changed that you did to the franchise mode.  The problem has been for the HUT gamemode. The whole hut community and myself are really disapointed right now. There is a lot of issues. 

    They changed the way we get our rewards. The idea is that they would removed the weekly reward from hut rivals and hut squad battle, and replaced it with a new xp progress path. We were all happy to hear that we would finally get instant rewards instead of having to wait to get our rewards at 17H00 PM on tuesday and wednesday. it was a good idea. But with the new system at the moment, instead of receiving approximately 10 packs per week that contains about 60 players,  we are now receiving maybe 8 players per week. The whole xp progress path at the moment is not fun. In example, you need to play approximately 2.5 hours ( if you win) to go to the next tier.  But you already see that the reward will be 3 bronze player that won’t play in your team.  So you look at the tier after that would require you to play another 2.5 hours, and you see that the reward will be 2000 coins.  We all have plenty of coins. The tier after, another 2.5 hours of playing gives you a silver player 76 overall that you know won’t play in your team. So just looking at the xp progress bar, the player already see that he needs to play 15 hours of winning games before getting a small small small chance of getting a player good enough to play in his team. It makes no sense. I have never seen a broken progression system  like that in any other good video games.  In summary, theres not enough feeling of any progression or satisfaction progressing the xp path.  

    One of the best part that players enjoyed playing hut game mode was opening packs. Why ? Because of the dopamine rush it gives to our brain.  Even if you knew that the packs wouldn’t have a good percentage of getting you something good, you still had a small chance ! It was also fun to open multiple packs all at once because it gives you the impression that you had more chance.  But with the new xp progress path, most of the packs we obtain, we already know it will be a 76 overall 77, 78 etc... So before opening the pack, you already know that the player wont play in your team. Its very boring especially when you have multiple packs like that to open. Give us an open all button maybe ? We should be excited to open every pack. But thats not the way it is so far this year.  

    We need something realistic to constantly chase for. At the moment we can’t even dream of getting good players that we could make with the sets because we all know it will be impossible with the amount of reward that we are getting this year. 

    In my opinion, the xp progress path shouldn’t be the main source of rewards. The xp path should be a bonus. 

    in summary, i am worried that we won’t be able to find an online hut game in 3 weeks because no one will play the game mode because the way it is right now, hut is no longer a fun mode to play.  Please, pass this message to the dev if you can. We would like to at least know if they are aware and if they acknowledge that there is an issue with the hut game mode.  Im sure they will see in their stats that the number of hut hours played per players has dropped significantly compared to the same period last year. They will probably see the packs sales go down also because less players are playing. Most of us did not even spent our 4600 pts that we received for preordering the game. This is crazy !  They need to understand that players will buy packs if they enjoy the game mode and having fun grinding it. Not the other way around ! It should not be that you need to buy packs to start enjoying the game mode.  thank you !

     

     

    • xXCaSeY's avatar
      xXCaSeY
      New Novice

      Yea it's terrible. I bought the game early and grinder all week on the first week too get the "bonus" packs. Then you guys have me bronze 64 overall players. We're not getting enough players to fill sets And build our teams. Then you guys make rivals the least efficient way to earn xp. You earn the most xp by playing squad battles against the computers and I would be ok with that if it had rewards. So now I have to play 4 minute periods against a computer to get to the next tier which is only 2000 coins which won't even buy me a 72 overall player because your market is completely trashed because nobody is getting decent players in packs. You are being very greedy with your rewards I'm at the point where I'm debating on whether it's even worth the time anymore.

      • aliens360's avatar
        aliens360
        Rising Novice

        Exactly ! I even took a week of vacation like I do every year.  I was  shocked when I realized that I had nothing left to grind after 2 days. I was hoping that on Friday I would be happy with the new xp path and event. Oh boy I have been disappointed ! Your correct. The fact that you get more xp playing SB on superstar 4 min than Rivals 3 min is really bad.  Especially considering the fact that we win 97% of SB games.

        Also, I feel like that the win or loss doesn’t really matter anymore.  The only advantage of being good and win most your game is that you can get your reward faster. Your not getting more or better reward, your just getting the same reward as everyone else but faster.  but if you finish the path faster than everyone else, it also mean that you wont have anything more to grind untill they release another xp path. This is another big problem with hut this year

  • forget the title of his video lol. But if you listen to that youtuber video, you will get a good pulse of what the community is thinking right now.  He will also probably explain it better than me in my previous post. Start the video at the 1min30 sec mark.

    https://youtu.be/Q8b4cFVZJfs?si=6umqFs2hZbnmKG9e