This is why EA Madden allows the guaranteed item to be tradeable and/or it is a Fantasy Pack in which you can choose the item that you want.
EA NHL doesn't take this scenario into account because, well, you know.
A lot of the developers from different sports studios will get together to assess what features in their games get high praise to see if it's possible to implement in their own titles. We saw a lot of positive feedback about Squad Battles in FIFA and several studios have incorporated their own version of it in their games like Madden and NHL.
The team isn't holding out the Fantasy pack option from you all to intentionally make things more difficult. If enough positive feedback is heard around a feature like the Madden fantasy packs we will make sure it's heard in order to see if it's possible to be implemented at some point. Can't make any guarantees on it making it into the game for the current title, but perhaps the next or following one depending on difficulty of implementation and many other development factors. That is why it's important to come to these forums with feedback on positive features you like and areas of improvement. We won't know unless you tell us.
I'm sorry about the luck you had though, @jason12311. I'm a firm believe in good Karma and my fingers are crossed for you in upcoming promos.
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EA NHL doesn't take this scenario into account because, well, you know.
A lot of the developers from different sports studios will get together to assess what features in their games get high praise to see if it's possible to implement in their own titles. We saw a lot of positive feedback about Squad Battles in FIFA and several studios have incorporated their own version of it in their games like Madden and NHL.
The team isn't holding out the Fantasy pack option from you all to intentionally make things more difficult. If enough positive feedback is heard around a feature like the Madden fantasy packs we will make sure it's heard in order to see if it's possible to be implemented at some point. Can't make any guarantees on it making it into the game for the current title, but perhaps the next or following one depending on difficulty of implementation and many other development factors. That is why it's important to come to these forums with feedback on positive features you like and areas of improvement. We won't know unless you tell us.
I'm sorry about the luck you had though, @jason12311. I'm a firm believe in good Karma and my fingers are crossed for you in upcoming promos.
I got Marleau and Carter.