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**NHL 15 thread** Part III

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blueliner18

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The only time that I ever played HUT, is in the demo. That's it. Why waste the time "trying" to obtain the players you want? When you can just play season or franchise with your favorite team... I don't have the patience for all that line chemistry and contract crap, I just want to play a hockey game that is as close to the real thing as possible!!! That's why gameplay matters to me and I could care less about half-baked game modes.
 
blueliner18

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blueliner18 said:
The only time that I ever played HUT, is in the demo. That's it. Why waste the time "trying" to obtain the players you want? When you can just play season or franchise with your favorite team... I don't have the patience for all that line chemistry and contract crap, I just want to play a hockey game that is as close to the real thing as possible!!! That's why gameplay matters to me and I could care less about half-baked game modes.
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I mean I get it... some people like that stuff, just voicing my views.
 
bigwillie

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I loved HUT at first. It was basically a dream of mine playing NHL games growing up as a kid. But the market is absolutely ****ed. You have all these players from all over the world but every team you play is nothing but NHL superstars. And to get ahead you either have to dump a ton of time into collection farming or spend real world money.
 
ORLY

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I think people hating on HUT are missing the point of it.

The fun comes from slowly bettering your team, and always trying to upgrade each position so you can have an edge on your opponents. Yes you don't get to use your favourite players right away, but the mode rewards you for sticking with it until you get the players you want, that every other person can't just use at anytime. Buying and flipping cards is also addicting.

I like EASHL more, but HUT is my second favourite. Especially if you're a decent online player. It's satisfying winning tournaments with your custom team.
 
matt1396

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ORLY said:
I think people hating on HUT are missing the point of it.

The fun comes from slowly bettering your team, and always trying to upgrade each position so you can have an edge on your opponents. Yes you don't get to use your favourite players right away, but the mode rewards you for sticking with it until you get the players you want, that every other person can't just use at anytime. Buying and flipping cards is also addicting.

I like EASHL more, but HUT is my second favourite. Especially if you're a decent online player. It's satisfying winning tournaments with your custom team.
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This. 1000 times this. That and building my team that way are the major draws of HUT for me. The only time I will spend money on that mode is when I get the Ultimate Edition of the game, other than that I probably won't spend a penny on it.
 

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Sadly, HUT and the rest of the UT game modes are the reason why sports games are still around. NHL 15 doesn't produce enough profit to actually develop games every year. It really isn't worth it for them without HUT. The UT's generated 280M last year and that is almost complete profit because there really isn't much of a cost to produce these virtual card packs.

It would make sense that they cut one of or both of GMC/EASHL to get more people to focus on HUT and minimize their development costs. The amount of sales they would lose would probably be made back in card packs in HUT from all of the GMC/EASHL players who had nothing but HUT to play.

EA will always try and make HUT their biggest thing. Even look at what 2k did when they eliminated game modes and made their version of HUT even bigger on NBA. Thats where the profit in sports gaming is. It wouldn't shock me if NHL would be barely staying alive without HUT.
 

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ORLY said:
I think people hating on HUT are missing the point of it.

The fun comes from slowly bettering your team, and always trying to upgrade each position so you can have an edge on your opponents. Yes you don't get to use your favourite players right away, but the mode rewards you for sticking with it until you get the players you want, that every other person can't just use at anytime. Buying and flipping cards is also addicting.

I like EASHL more, but HUT is my second favourite. Especially if you're a decent online player. It's satisfying winning tournaments with your custom team.
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that's fine and well if you can't cheat your way into a better team. Kids with no moral compass just buy and buy until they have the best team and EA makes money. You're being suckered into paying them more.
 
Deku

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bigwillie said:
I loved HUT at first. It was basically a dream of mine playing NHL games growing up as a kid. But the market is absolutely ****ed. You have all these players from all over the world but every team you play is nothing but NHL superstars. And to get ahead you either have to dump a ton of time into collection farming or spend real world money.
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Not really. If you are really good at working the market, you can make good profit off of that. You don't have to do either of those things. Collections really help though.
 
Cousin Eddie

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I liked Hut a lot more when training cards lasted forever, but contracts went up. I used to make teams which were symbolic to me and it was much more fun. For example I once made a team of all Newfies. I know what you're thinking, there's only like 5 in the NHL. But I used junior kids and some guys from european leagues and just added +5 training cards to them. I also made a team canada world junior team, and a team of my favorite Avs players and Prospects.

Now with training cards expiring, it makes it worthless to train these guys. I cant afford to keep up with it so the only way to keep up with everyone else was by having NHL stars which I refuse to do. Because of this I no longer play HUT.
 
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Maple Leafs said:
Sadly, HUT and the rest of the UT game modes are the reason why sports games are still around. NHL 15 doesn't produce enough profit to actually develop games every year. It really isn't worth it for them without HUT. The UT's generated 280M last year and that is almost complete profit because there really isn't much of a cost to produce these virtual card packs.

It would make sense that they cut one of or both of GMC/EASHL to get more people to focus on HUT and minimize their development costs. The amount of sales they would lose would probably be made back in card packs in HUT from all of the GMC/EASHL players who had nothing but HUT to play.

EA will always try and make HUT their biggest thing. Even look at what 2k did when they eliminated game modes and made their version of HUT even bigger on NBA. Thats where the profit in sports gaming is. It wouldn't shock me if NHL would be barely staying alive without HUT.
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Good luck to EA trying to guide everyone into playing HUT. That gesture alone will be a big turn off to gamers. People will just switch over to offline modes or 1v1 versus again, like in years past, rather than feel forced into playing a weird, gimmicky, unrealistic game mode that costs money to be any good!

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You have complete control in HUT... you do start with random bad players, but then you can buy whoever you want by saving up pucks (in-game currency)
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If it were in some way realistic, and not a clear gimmick to take people's real dollars I'd be more of a fan. The fact that it's based on cards and 'contracts' that don't even last very long... where is the stability? I want to build a franchise, not a bunch of mercenaries I swap out every 4 games etc.
 
ArGarBarGar

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PatriceBergeronFan said:
If it were in some way realistic, and not a clear gimmick to take people's real dollars I'd be more of a fan. The fact that it's based on cards and 'contracts' that don't even last very long... where is the stability? I want to build a franchise, not a bunch of mercenaries I swap out every 4 games etc.
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You are aware that you can keep a player card and play with him for an infinite number of games as long as you have contract cards. Even those aren't that expensive if you know how to shop the market (even playing games you still make enough to get those cards).

Besides, every year there has been a glitch where you don't even need them.
 
ArGarBarGar

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1. Jerseys look so unnatural
2. Skating looks a lot more fluid
3. Doc sounds super weird with the pre-recorded audio
4. Looks like only two players end up celebrating with each other, while the rest skate away. Not that much better than what we have.
 
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