The bad news? The sign-up is already closed. The good news is it will run from noon PST on July 28 until 11:59 p.m. Will NHL 17 improve upon that shaky step back? It won’t be long until we find out.įor the second year in a row, EA is offering a sneak peek of its new hockey game in the form of a public beta. This sent producer Sean Ramjagsingh to the Globe and Mail to apologize, but many weren’t having it, and the hashtag #NHL15problems briefly trended. Owing to time constraints imposed by developing the game for the next-generation PS4 and Xbox One consoles, EA simply left many of the legacy features out of the new iteration.
The NHL franchise’s worst moment was its infamous NHL 15 debacle. That’s a big number, but it pales in comparison to EA’s FIFA franchise, which sells more than 8-million copies every year, mostly outside of North America, of course.
Today, it sells about 600,000 copies a year, most of them in North America. Since the demise of the NHL 2K series, Electronic Arts is the only game in town when it comes to the National Hockey League.
The result is predictable: everyone ends up with twelve dollar beers. It’s a dance similar to that of a pre-arranged fight between two highly paid goons on a Saturday night at the Air Canada Centre. Then they shrug their shoulders and buy it. Or grumble that the online play is laggy and disconnects too much. They complain the poke check or the one-timer is too effective. Others say it is too realistic and needs to be more fun (remember when you could make Wayne Gretzky’s head bleed, for instance?). Some grouse that the gameplay has become too “cartoonish”. EA Sports NHL series, entering its 26th year (now 53 year-old Glenn Healy was the original cover boy), is the franchise Canadian gamers love to hate.Įvery year, Electronic Arts trots out a new version of video game pro hockey they promise is the best ever and every year certain fans complain they are paying $69.99 for a mere roster and jersey update.
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