[quote="Jeff_frm_Edmonds;c-2056312"]lot of interesting theories going on here. i thought the speculation about his past was a confirmed reason but it appears that's incorrect so....
i think the most obvious reason they removed it was so that people don't add him too soon. those of us that have been playing since September have a ton of extra collectables and could reroll for him in a few days.
i think this is EA's attempt at parity for the moment and if they're not saying anything different i expect Bobby Hull to be the free Legend but not be avaliable to collect until the last week of the month.[/quote]
Your explanation sux a bit. Sry to say. I mean... if you get your monthly legend soon' its because you worked your asssh off to get it. You logged many times each days. You play many times each days and your goal for this work is to GET THE MONTHLY REWArD. Now you (AS ME) had already done a lot of work and suddenly a total idiot came and make your goodie dissappear without any reason. Question: Have we really made this work just to get one of those horrible golds packs??? AbSOLUTELY NOT!!! Lack of communication on this matter make me feel like a piece of poop. Tx EA!
From what I got from EA's support, the NHL developers do not give much info to the support guys so that's why they are so quiet on this forum, EA's support forum or reddit. Or even when you contact them by phone or chat.
My assumption is that the team working on maintaining NHL 19 after the release and they are, like most business in the US short staffed and asked to work extra hours to fix the current issues.
Now Bobby Hull is NOT coming back, that was probably not the dev's decision and they had to work on this while overloaded with other game issues in HUT or other game modes.
So the lack of answer probably means that they were caught off guard and need to put time on something that was not planned at all with no resources available. And since they don't have the time to address this right now, it would look terrible from them saying that they don't have the time for it.
Not trying to defend them in any way, they should do a meeting, gather all the info they can give and make a page on HUT's home page and let us know what is going on. Even if it's not much.
The latest details are simple:
we will get a reward at the end of the month, it's not Bobby Hull and they can't say what/who it will be.
Could be... that would mean they found staff to DESTROY our doing but no-one to explain this crappy decision (that came out from a meeting). That make sense... coming from EA...
Pulling Bobby Hull because of his personal issues doesn't bother me I suppose. But I've been collecting these monthly collectibles for a 96 LW that was promised. I don't care if the 96 LW is Hull or not..It isn't hard to change it. Don't be lazy EA.
[quote="jabickel1993;c-2056699"]Pulling Bobby Hull because of his personal issues doesn't bother me I suppose. But I've been collecting these monthly collectibles for a 96 LW that was promised. I don't care if the 96 LW is Hull or not..It isn't hard to change it. Don't be lazy EA.[/quote]
Exactly! But they have enough time to come out with TOTY... Let’s GOOOOOO EA! Get on the ball....
I'd just like them to say something one way or the other. If they're going to give us someone other than Hull before the month is over... okay, just tell us that. If there won't be a replacement... okay, tell us that so we don't waste our time logging in multiple times a day for useless collectables.
I think EA could have done this in a smoother way, just fading the last tier out and not take it away completely. So the users still see, who is coming up - EA should just mention, that maybe some adjustments on the teams have to be made, to let the legend fit in and get syns.
For this I would prefer to see the last tier, EA just could put a countdown-timer on this one - just like they do with the reroll-set.
From what I got from EA's support, the NHL developers do not give much info to the support guys so that's why they are so quiet on this forum, EA's support forum or reddit. Or even when you contact them by phone or chat.
My assumption is that the team working on maintaining NHL 19 after the release and they are, like most business in the US short staffed and asked to work extra hours to fix the current issues.
Now Bobby Hull is NOT coming back, that was probably not the dev's decision and they had to work on this while overloaded with other game issues in HUT or other game modes.
So the lack of answer probably means that they were caught off guard and need to put time on something that was not planned at all with no resources available. And since they don't have the time to address this right now, it would look terrible from them saying that they don't have the time for it.
Not trying to defend them in any way, they should do a meeting, gather all the info they can give and make a page on HUT's home page and let us know what is going on. Even if it's not much.
The latest details are simple:
we will get a reward at the end of the month, it's not Bobby Hull and they can't say what/who it will be.
The Bobby Hull alumni 96 card is still visible on the Blackhawks roster. They haven’t eliminated it. I would think if there were concerns about his dubious reputation it would have been deleted. Soldier on lads. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. EA’s leadership has always been about separating customers from their money. Manipulating our passion for the games with marketing ploys.
Maybe it’s time to hit them in their wallet by complaining to the NHL about how they are treating their most loyal fans!
The Bobby Hull alumni 96 card is still visible on the Blackhawks roster. They haven’t eliminated it. I would think if there were concerns about his dubious reputation it would have been deleted. Soldier on lads. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. EA’s leadership has always been about separating customers from their money. Manipulating our passion for the games with marketing ploys.
Maybe it’s time to hit them in their wallet by complaining to the NHL about how they are treating their most loyal fans!
Of course they are silent to busy snatching people money for team of the year. Let's face it to get 70 collectables in 6 days people would have to spend a small fortune to get 3 cards that are worth nothing in 3 months lol
Well, this was confirmed by multiple sources including the support tech who answered my questions.
The developers did not give much details, all we got so far is, again... Bobby Hull is not coming back and we will get a reward so we need to continue collect the monthly's collectibles.
Well, this was confirmed by multiple sources including the support tech who answered my questions.
The developers did not give much details, all we got so far is, again... Bobby Hull is not coming back and we will get a reward so we need to continue collect the monthly's collectibles.
fair enough but i'm sticking with my guess that they took out the final set to avoid him getting on rosters too soon. my money says it will be Bobby Hull and we can collect the last week of March.
the 1st couple month's EA was giving us 2 Gold Plus packs by mistake and they ended up revising it to only give 1. my source in Burnaby told me when i was up at the World U20s that EA made a few boo boos with the free legends sets from the start and one was they only intended 1 gold plus pack.
after the roll out of the reroll monthly collectable in Decemeber they discovered that the free legend was also being collected too soon and those that got the game for the holidays had been complaining they were going up against Mikita after only a few days. i played against Stastny on Feb 4th so i'm guessing, as you noted before, they were busy doing the server switch and that stupid reset to beta tuner and never got around to correcting the legend sets until this week.
i also would not be surprised if someone(s) out there doesn't have him on their roster already since Stastny and Mikta were collected in the 1st week of those months. we'll see in a couple of weeks what we get but i'm guessing it's Hull.
Still missing and it’s mid-month. The March collectibles only go up to 65, with no redemption option for a player card. Was it supposed to be a 96 Bobby Hull? Finally, a player other than a centre and it disappears.
@Jetset95 Where did you get that EA is going to make a legend available for redemption of March collectibles? The only thing I read was they we will be able to redeem our monthly collectibles for a reward. To my knowledge, one ever said it was going to be a Legend card.
Jetset95 wrote: “If it's the reason we're all talking about I don't blame EA for not entering the debate and just doing a good job to put a player that we should look up to into the set. Be patient - EA say we'll get a player and it's free so when, where and who shouldn't matter.”
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i think the most obvious reason they removed it was so that people don't add him too soon. those of us that have been playing since September have a ton of extra collectables and could reroll for him in a few days.
i think this is EA's attempt at parity for the moment and if they're not saying anything different i expect Bobby Hull to be the free Legend but not be avaliable to collect until the last week of the month.[/quote]
Your explanation sux a bit. Sry to say. I mean... if you get your monthly legend soon' its because you worked your asssh off to get it. You logged many times each days. You play many times each days and your goal for this work is to GET THE MONTHLY REWArD. Now you (AS ME) had already done a lot of work and suddenly a total idiot came and make your goodie dissappear without any reason. Question: Have we really made this work just to get one of those horrible golds packs??? AbSOLUTELY NOT!!! Lack of communication on this matter make me feel like a piece of poop. Tx EA!
My assumption is that the team working on maintaining NHL 19 after the release and they are, like most business in the US short staffed and asked to work extra hours to fix the current issues.
Now Bobby Hull is NOT coming back, that was probably not the dev's decision and they had to work on this while overloaded with other game issues in HUT or other game modes.
So the lack of answer probably means that they were caught off guard and need to put time on something that was not planned at all with no resources available. And since they don't have the time to address this right now, it would look terrible from them saying that they don't have the time for it.
Not trying to defend them in any way, they should do a meeting, gather all the info they can give and make a page on HUT's home page and let us know what is going on. Even if it's not much.
The latest details are simple:
Exactly! But they have enough time to come out with TOTY... Let’s GOOOOOO EA! Get on the ball....
For this I would prefer to see the last tier, EA just could put a countdown-timer on this one - just like they do with the reroll-set.
how do you know it won't be Hull?
Maybe it’s time to hit them in their wallet by complaining to the NHL about how they are treating their most loyal fans!
Agreed. All these post and they are silent.
Well, this was confirmed by multiple sources including the support tech who answered my questions.
The developers did not give much details, all we got so far is, again... Bobby Hull is not coming back and we will get a reward so we need to continue collect the monthly's collectibles.
fair enough but i'm sticking with my guess that they took out the final set to avoid him getting on rosters too soon. my money says it will be Bobby Hull and we can collect the last week of March.
the 1st couple month's EA was giving us 2 Gold Plus packs by mistake and they ended up revising it to only give 1. my source in Burnaby told me when i was up at the World U20s that EA made a few boo boos with the free legends sets from the start and one was they only intended 1 gold plus pack.
after the roll out of the reroll monthly collectable in Decemeber they discovered that the free legend was also being collected too soon and those that got the game for the holidays had been complaining they were going up against Mikita after only a few days. i played against Stastny on Feb 4th so i'm guessing, as you noted before, they were busy doing the server switch and that stupid reset to beta tuner and never got around to correcting the legend sets until this week.
i also would not be surprised if someone(s) out there doesn't have him on their roster already since Stastny and Mikta were collected in the 1st week of those months. we'll see in a couple of weeks what we get but i'm guessing it's Hull.
Jetset95 wrote:
“If it's the reason we're all talking about I don't blame EA for not entering the debate and just doing a good job to put a player that we should look up to into the set. Be patient - EA say we'll get a player and it's free so when, where and who shouldn't matter.”