T1K
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As primarily a HUT player, this summary is concerning. I might just stick with 24 when I have the itch to play.EA SPORTS NHL 25 HUT Deep Dive Blog
Even HUT somehow got worse. The more i read this the more it sounded like they just ripped off MUT which is really bad news for the player.
- Player overalls have been deflated (again) and as an added bonus, gold players "start" at 80 overall. I know EA too well, their claim of "now you'll get to see players from all over!" is code for "we're watering down our already shitty pack odds with even more junk." Madden pulls the same shit with dudes no one heard of being "elite" cards
- Streamlined rewards are a good thing on paper because the game had essentially turned into a hamster wheel for a lot of people. Getting rid of it WOULD be a good thing if they're going to offer a replacement for all the rewards lost from weekly squad battles/rivals. Spoilers: they won't
- Seasons model sucks. MLB The Show already has been doing this for the past couple games and people hate it. Forces people to continuously grind for new cards (even with SDS being much more player friendly) and in a lot of cases will force you to stop using some of your favorite players because of an arbitrary window. EA doesn't outright mention it here admittedly, but that's the conclusion pretty much everyone jumped to
- Cards going from NO-SELL to BND f***s over no money spent players hard. No sell could still be used as fodder for sets/upgrades and is generally how the sickos who played no money spent made their progress. BND means bound, means that card is bound to your account like a bad case of herpes. Once you got it, you can't get rid of it.
- Wildcards is a cool concept, but is probably just going to play out as a lesser version of house rules from MUT.
- day one $100 CAD packs. I thought blizzard selling a mythic gun skin for 53 was the biggest crock of shit i've seen this year, it took a total of 24 hours for that to be topped.
The only positive HUT thing I’ve read is that the PS and Xbox auction houses are now combined. That’s a big plus obviously, but EA has been pumping the micro transactions each year for the smallest overall upgrades. Frankly I’m exhausted.