NHL 25 Presentation
There is absolutely no way the "blog" EA released today is our official deep dive for presentation right? It was 3 mini paragraphs and barely went in depth.
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Thank you for your honest answer.
Let's hope for the best. Hope, as they say, dies last)
EA devs already done a lot of work with the faces this year, for which special THANKS. You've also done some work on the franchise (the idea of grudge-match and adding statistics for all games is very good, the introduction of additional correspondence is questionable, it's better to add a good player editor in any case)
Bring back a full-fledged presentation and a number of players, including myself, will be grateful to you and will leave this issue alone)
Usually the “have to wait and see” is a closing statement which can usually be read as “probably not gonna happen, let’s leave it at that”
it just has to be seen as open ended (it could happen) because of politics and EA’s super secrecy of not allowing any type of information to be declassified lol
with the direction of the NHL series past few years, I doubt it’ll be back anytime soon especially considering the poor buggy performance of the game and its code that hasn’t gotten any better despite the yearly installments
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
The reason I say we'll have to wait and see is for multiple reasons. It's never because I'm saying it's probably not going to happen. We have to set expectations here. We can't say anything that can be taken as a promise that something is coming when there's no official confirmation. Also, there are of course times when we have a planned announcement. Such as when we're ramping up to launch and are trickling out information. I can't announce anything early so that is always a wait and see kind of situation.
When it comes to something that isn't in the current game and is a very big addition, like full presentation, that is another wait and see situation. It's entirely possible that could return at some point in the future. I would never say never when it comes to this. There is obviously a lot of interest in full presentation coming back. I'd absolutely love to see it happen. There's just nothing to report on it currently. You all are more than welcome to discuss it, but we won't be able to say definitively whether or not it's happening.
Any explanation why NHL games dont have a face generator for the Randos inserted each year? But every other EA game has it? You dont see silhouettes in Madden, CFB and FC
like full presentation, that is another wait and see situation. It's entirely possible that could return at some point in the future.
Whenever people say things like "EA is always removing things and adding them back" - these are the kinds of things they're referring to.
- EA_Aljo
They also say we advertise these as new. As if they were never in the game before. When features return, they're normally different than the previous iteration. Regardless, they are also often things people requested we return so I'm not quite getting why this is so negative. Other than, it shouldn't have been removed to begin with. A lot of those legacy features didn't make the transition to the Xbox One/PS4 version. Some were added over time, some may still be added in the future. Features are added/returned based on priority. Which is also based on community feedback as well as our own vision for the game.
There's also only so much that can be done year to year. We need to be flexible with long term plans so we can react to community feedback, new technology, changes in vision, etc.
