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jimmarshall
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6 years ago
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Will NHL 21 Come Out For PC?

it's about time we all got an NHL title back on PC. if Madden can come back so can that.
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    TTZ_Dipsy
    6 years ago

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TTZ_Dipsy
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6 years ago

@EA_Aljo 

You're right, calling it a carbon copy is a bit of a stretch, and the team can definitely make great strides like with NHL 20's speed system and continuation of 19's defensive tweaks, but I personally think EA would receive much less flak if they released yearly (or just constant update) patches to a base "EA's NHL" like the community has been requesting instead of full price releases; You can get away with making us pay for them, sure, (though you make enough money in HUT not to but this is beside the point), but I think $30 or $40 is much more reasonable.

As for resolving issues.. it's been near 10 years for basic left right left dekes on goalies to be fixed, 5 years since defensive shot and pass blocking were tuned, and 3 years since the horrid rebound cheesers were toned down. I appreciate all the changes to skating/agility and especially poking, but there are some, what I'd call game-breaking problems that are low priority


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NateDZD
6 years ago
@TTZ_Dipsy wrote:


I personally think EA would receive much less flak if they released yearly (or just constant update) patches to a base "EA's NHL" like the community has been requesting instead of full price releases; You can get away with making us pay for them, sure, (though you make enough money in HUT not to but this is beside the point), but I think $30 or $40 is much more reasonable.

Could you imagine EA missing out on the opportunity to take 60$ USD from people every year?!

I'm with you though, this would go a long way to making fans happy. While EA are releasing annual "full" versions of their games, Konami just announced that instead of a full new version of eFootball PES for the 20/21 season, they're releasing a 30$ update to eFootball PES 2020 while focusing their development team's attention on the 2022 release. There's no way we'd see that kind of thing with FIFA. One can dream though.

I for one believe that these sport games would be much improved by the publisher doing something like that. I'd happily purchase a 30$ update to NHL 20 that does little more than refresh a few things, patch some bugs, update rosters, clean up menus, and change player models. Especially if it meant that NHL 22 would be a truly creative upgrade worthy of a 60$ price tag.

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