NHL 25 Official Franchise Trailer | Deep Dive

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We’ve been asking for editing players since they removed it in 2021. Crazy how 4 full years later and we still don’t have it. I’m positive we can’t edit them still since they definitely would’ve highlighted that in their video. 
the conversation engine looks sooooooo annoying and tedious lol. 
that’s why the won’t give us more than 25 years as a GM, it’ll take 25 years IRL to get through the conversations. 
as usual, a neat idea but not great implementation.. way too heavy on it. 
there’s tons of new menus, some that are kind of insignificant in my opinion so if the menu responsiveness is as slow as it has been for decades, franchise mode is gonna be even more of a chore. 

We cant even blame lack of effort. I assume it was quite a bit of work to get all these conversation choices added to the game, but I’m betting it would’ve been a lot easier to just open up editing and leave the new conversations for the no trade clauses/contract negotiations. 

I’ll still give them kudos for the idea they were going for, though. 

Wow this looks impressive. As a person who only plays franchise it looks like i have a reason to purchase again. First time in 2 or 3 years for me.

some questions that werent covered.

1. Has the scouting mechanism improved? Or scouting in general? 
2. will scouts and other coaches grow in ratings over time?
3. has the draft changed? Like will scouts update your draft board? Will scouts make better recommendations?
4. will player contract demands be reasonable. Like a player with a decent rating but no NHL experience not ask for $8m?
5. will hiring and firing coaches be easier
6. Can u scout further in advance than upcoming draft? Example will we start receiving reports for how the 2026 draft is shaping up while in 24/25 season.
7. can we assign players to echl? I hate having a glut of players in AHL. Would rather some play in echl or send european ones back to europe for a season.

overall though it looks very impressive. Good job so far. 

I have a couple of questions after watching the deep dive video. 

1- Can I turn off morale like previous games? (I still feel EA’s morale engine is not perfect, for example when the morale lost told me Casey Cizikas, Matt Martin and Cal Clutterbuck all disliked each other even though they played on the same line for almost a decade)

2- Can I fully edit my strategies regardless of the head coach? I’ve been asking for a couple seasons since it’s been taken away and I saw it was grayed out yet again before you had to go in to talk to the head coach to change

3- Does everything have to be conversation based? Feels too tedious and long for someone like myself who plays every game to have to do in between games

4- will the CPU AI logic actually sign their RFA’s and also will there be more realistic contract negotiations? Prior games had players asking way too much money for roles they were not filling.

They deserve a pat on the back for actually putting some effort into the mode (not devs fault for lack of effort, that comes from management and what they’re told to work on) 

I don’t really care for the conversation system as we all know how it worked before in past years and how.. bad it was. If it’s better, then I’ll insert my foot in my mouth. But as of now, just to edit lines seems like a chore. Changing playing position/style looks like a chore/gamble. Is it locked to one player per offseason? It’s a step in the right direction at least… 

just miffed that they did all this work, which is appreciated (time will tell how well it actually works out though), and they hardly did anything we’ve asked for, for years. We got goalie widget which is a huge W. Contract revamp is awesome  

but like everything that was implemented, I’m hesitant to jump for joy since they’ve promised they’ve worked on the AI GM’s/trade logic etc quite a few times before and it’s still as awful as ever  

this revamp is a big make or break moment. 

also having an answer to the question “why can’t we edit players / edit strategies anymore” would go a long ways for trust. It’s been 4 years now of constant dodging/ignoring those questions from tons of us players 

That’s something I was wondering myself. 
I always turned off morale because of how bad the morale system was for years. 
will it still allow us to talk to players about contracts? 
Can we talk to coaches about changing player types/positions?

lots of questions about that. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if they removed the option to turn off morale so we have to focus on their conversation engine just like they took away our ability to edit players to force us to use their X factors and dual position system 

I am reserving judgement for when I have played a bit. The changes look interesting and I am happy with how much work they put into it. Will be interesting to play with and see if its clunky or if they are impactful changes.