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They haven't bothered to tweak how bags work because it incentivizes users to play more games. With how builds work this year, I wouldn't be all the surprised to see arena/team customization packs you can buy with real money hit the market in '27
I mean if thats true, its completely absurd thinking on their part. If anything, its making me (someone who hasn't played NHL in 15 years) not only want to stop playing, but also not buy next years.
Like what a slap in the face, me and my club played over 60 games in club finals, finished top 500, 2 championships, and we legit got doo doo for our drops. Why would we want to continue playing at this point?
Do you know if you get better drops when you get to division 1 or after you prestige the club? Thats the only thing I can think of at this point. Really hoping they tweak the drops, there has to be some sort of reward for the clubs that are playing a lot of games and do decent in club finals
- TTZ_Dipsy16 hours agoLegend
My teams have never been relegated, we've beaten the top 10, and topped leaderboards throughout the years and I can confirm that regular bags (bronze/silver/gold/ONES/Threes) are random. (Specialty/marked bags like Olympics, the Army, gear collabs will obviously have specific stuff)
I believe arenas are unique in that they unlock in sequential order at set team levels and this can go far into Prestige(s) - This can be good or bad depending on how hard you lean into authenticity but it definitely sucks for teams like mine who have a very specific look/style and are forced to play in horrendously garbage arenas for a huge period of time (funny thing is, they even reduced the number of awful Junior stadiums like the 4-plex since it was causing nothing but problems but there is still so much more to go).
60 games is a ton to current players since the game is so bad but yeah, in the grand scheme of things that's just a drop in the bucket for a competitive game so it'll take a bit for your team to get something nice to look at. Player unlocks have much more randomness to em though so at least your own create a player can potentially look nice early - Just be careful: your entire team might get reset back to black and white default anyway (sometimes permanently too!) and they don't know how to fix it.
Edit - Ah, i read that as 60 games total but whatever, the point still stands: the current unlock system just isn't fun. My team actually didn't even make it to 60 total games before quitting this year lol; you missed out on NHL '14 and I liked I think 20 or something, but not much else in those 15 blessed years off - they've just made me more and more bitter thinking back to what we had before
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