NHL 25 is in trouble...

Quickly wanted to rant about the state of NHL 24 and the future of NHL 25 after the recent news we just heard from the National Hockey League when it comes to the NHL World Championship with HUT, or Hockey Ultimate Team.
Hope you enjoy and let me know your thoughts about what you would want to see in NHL 25
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Message From The NHL
1:38 The History Of The NHL GWC
2:25 Issues With HUT in the future
4:44 NHL going to 2k
5:25 What we can do to help
6:37 Outro
#nhl #hockey #nhl24 #nhl25 #chel

[@Perellzy]

*PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING* My channel is based around Online NHL content so I am covering it from the Online player’s standpoint. I also am aware that the GWC ending could be a good thing for HUT specifically, because it could make it seem less “sweaty” for new players while staying engaging. EA just has to find a balance and put some things to use that I mentioned in the video. We really just have to wait and see when NHL 25 is revealed to know what direction EA is looking to push the game in. If it looks good then I could be completely wrong in certain aspects, and I’m ok with that. Thanks

[@PatrickKendrick1988]

Good. They need to do a complete restart with the NHL series. It’s an absolute disaster

[@PowerPlayStudios]

Nhl 2k had better presentation than ea sports

[@1plex1]

EA Sports is a joke lol - nhl 14 gameplay feels more like real hockey than nhl 24 - franchise mode hasnt been touched in nearly a decade - cant edit / add your own players or teams in franchise mode - no depth in any way (pre game intro, dressing rooms, interactive drafts / trade deadlines) - HUT does not add anything to the game for 30% of players - no mini games - commentary is terrible - CPU doesnt understand hockey in any way - The game has been terrible and the exact same for the last decade and EA seems to okay with it, shameful

[@anthonypollifrone6376]

I mean you can add players BUT it sucks because you have to do it outside of the mode. Wish it was more like MyEra in 2k. You can edit players creat players do what ever you want.

[@anthonynewsome9827]

Truth 💯 been saying this for years.

[@tristancollura375]

NHL 24 was definitely not executed well, NHL 18 and 19 were executed well, they just need to use the past and present and make a game that is actually not obviously terrible, gameplay is trash, the announcing is trash, I would say the presentation is in the right direction, otherwise this series has gone down hill.

[@anthonypollifrone6376]

@@anthonynewsome9827 same if the nhl gm mode was half of what 2k MY era is. id be happy

[@codymachado]

I agree with all except that 14 feels better gameplay wise, I disagree, player control in terms of realism was probably at its peak in NHL 23, in NHL 24 they tweaked L trigger reverse skating into the zone so I'd say 23 has slightly better gameplay feel, shooting passing etc is all better than 14. I still don't understand how they don't have realistic puck physics yet though, the dead stop on netting after a snipe is lame as fuck still

[@Borodin410]

Good. HUT and online modes have ruined the game.

[@TravisCooper-hb8eu]

For real

[@Fernn7]

Ong

[@Perellzy]

The game is the same now in every gamemode, online got AI penalties now because the AI’s are supposed to take pens in franchise/be a pro 💀 EA ruined the game not online. Plus online has been available in NHL games for almost 2 decades how does that “ruin it” lmao

[@Oils36]

Just keep eashl

[@HogSZN]

​@@Perellzy EA wouldn't get away with the garbage they do if it wasn't for online gremlins like you lol

[@RyanOHara-rs9zj]

Very simple. THE FROSTBITE ENGINE IS DESIGNED FOR FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERS, NOT SPORTS GAMES. Why do you think people randomly fly 50 feet in the air in Madden? It's not rocket science.

[@mattsmith4589]

They don’t even introduce the players for a match how fucking lazy is that

[@liamcrothers8896]

This is a blessing in disguise. The rise of HUT accompanied the downfall of the game as a whole, which means that seeing that trend in the opposite direction is entirely possible. And in the long haul, if EA no longer sees this game as profitable, we'll get someone else on the licence. Or, here's hoping, competition in the marketplace. I would also argue that hockey and the NHL is no longer even in the 'Big 4' among North American sports. Game 7 is a fly-away case where nothing else was on TV so you might as well watch a game 7. NFL, NBA, MLB, and MMA are all bigger in North America, specifically the US, than hockey.

[@Perellzy]

I agree with all except for MLB, the NHL will take it over soon. Just sucks the league is so poorly ran compared to the other sports

[@thecootzi2638]

@@Perellzy as much as I would wish to agree with you I would have to disagree. With the arrival of hot stars, like Messi in the MLS and the NBA being on the rise, especially with the current recent draft, the NHL is severely falling behind the prospected players coming in are not living up to the hype anymore. You can’t base a league on one player this isn’t the early 2000s and 2010 era of NHL. You need multiple players on the majority of the NHL teams to be the stars of the franchise if not the league. That’s why hockey was so successful in the 70s 80s and 90s. In this day and age of the NHL not everybody knows everybody’s big star players. All we know is at least the top three of the prospected in the draft and the big names like Nathan McKinnon, Sydney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, whom of have carried the NHL since 2010 era.

[@Perellzy]

Buddy the NHL is miles ahead of the MLS. European futty tho, that’s a whole different story. I do agree it is ran poorly and should be marketed better though

[@nickamazing786]

EA does not have the exclusive licensing rights of the NHL. I think making hockey video games was no longer profitable for 2K so they stopped making it after 2K11. They could make one right now if they chose to do so. I doubt they will, which stinks.

[@Perellzy]

Yea for sure to be fair thats when 2k didn’t have microtransactions or other avenues of revenue besides the games but yea I honestly doubt it would happen anytime soon

[@Almighty88842]

So I'm gonna sound like a bit of a negative Nancy but what does it benefit you, myself or any one else to help grow the game with out social's if they aren't even investing the money made back into the game? EA made 1 billion dollars last year in micro transactions alone from HUT etc. and if I'm not mistaken they made over 800 million the year before that. So my question to you is in the past 2 years have you seen anything EA has done to and for the NHL series that would justify us using our socials to grow the game to make them more money? The game is glitchy, buggy, the engine is way behind it's time and the frost bite engine shouldn't even be used really because they had plenty of time to create a new updated engine and they chose not to and mind you this is AFTER making nearly 2 billion dollars in 2 years so i can honestly say i don't get your perspective

[@Perellzy]

I really only said that so we can try and get as much viewership as possible to help the future of the ESport and the Game itself, including the game of hockey which is growing. Growing socials isn’t only helping EA it helps the community and I’m very under the notion that we all eat. The real problem with NHL specifically is compared to all the other sports games, it has the least amount of resources/funding. Which I agree is bs considering how much EA pulls in annually. My main point is I think if people promote the game more and the microtransactions less, the better for everyone. I also agree frostbite should have never been used with this game considering frostbite is fundamentally made for FPS games.

[@Kuch86]

Honestly get rid of this competitive gaming bs for nhl. All it does is promote abusing the games broken mechanics. The only thing that changes every year is what 2 same goals you can score every time. It’s a joke. X factors do not work either.

[@Perellzy]

That’s why I think 6v6 would be better for some sort of “comp scene” opposed to 1v1 with AIs out there. 1v1 is just easier to run for tournament organizers because it’s less players. Also some xfactors probably work TOO well 💀 (close quarters is fucking broken)

[@Kuch86]

@@Perellzy I agree! The 1v1 has to go. It’s just so broken. I only play online versus so there isn’t a lot of X factor players in a game but it just bugs me if a player has close quarters you should be able to score with it a variety of ways but all it does is just make “the glitch” work 100% of the time. So stupid.

[@soysaucehairdye7869]

I went back to playing NHL 19 on my xbox and have been having a great time.

[@Perellzy]

I absolutely loved NHL 19

[@TopDog19755]

Wouldn’t this be good? We don’t want HUT we want a better hockey game with effort put into gameplay and offline modes who cares about esports championships besides who watches these championships?

[@Perellzy]

The point is alot of the players that play HUT and spend money, which EA wants us to do, won’t be as inclined to grind the game because there aren’t any big tournaments. Sure the casuals aren’t affected but HUT is their money-maker gamemode and something like this could bleed into other gamemodes if the playerbase isn’t there. I know EA has the battle pass now with EASHL but I really don’t know how many people are spending money on it. Part of it actually could be good though so HUT may be less sweaty and casuals would play it more

[@TopDog19755]

@@Perellzy we want less people to spend money on ultimate team to make ea realize what we want

[@Perellzy]

@TopDog19755 yea I know, im always preaching to never spend money on microtransactions. The main issue im stating is the fact that EA needs to add more engaging gamemodes (especially in HUT) to keep people on the game, now that the big tourney is gone, most people that play HUT for that reason won’t grind it as much because there isn’t that incentive anymore. Thats my main point

[@TopDog19755]

@@Perellzy hopefully we can get GM Connected or an o Lin franchise that would be amazing I would almost not care about the gameplay at all if they brought that In

[@Perellzy]

I agree, people have been asking for it for a while at this point I think they should at least try it for a year and if it goes bad then just scrap it

[@RyanVentura604]

We need another company to make an NHL game SO badly. I play NHL 2K10 (the PS3 version) regularly on my Steamdeck and there's so many things in that game that they get right. It was slept on.

[@adamguthrie2370]

All we need is ea step down making hockey games every year and have 2k to take over .thats the way I think

[@Sabrinaionescu20]

Don't worry if you ever play nba 2k24 like i do, they got 100 overalls in the MyTeam mode and are only gambling in packs. And believe it or not it's the worst 2ks ever made. I have no hopes for 2k25 but guess what? We all say were not gonna buy it, You're buying it lmao

[@Perellzy]

Yea I know 2k got its flaws similarly to EA, especially in the past couple years. I would just like if 2k had the NHL licensing again along with EA so that there’s some sort of competition and people could choose whichever game they like. And that’s also true people will never truly “boycott” or stop buying the games

[@Clinton-nt6qp]

Competitive seasons for sure would be the way to go. Hockey ultimate team should be something we can build our ultimate team. I wish you could build the players you like especially if it’s team based. Everyone has a favorite team but with the way it is now you can honestly only have less than a handful of players that are usable. The rest of the players don’t have speed, off/def awareness and or stick checking (not that pokes work) wtf! The base icons was great, but then EA HAD TO ,,, repeat HAD TO (loud) make €€€NEW¥¥¥ icon cards 96 goalie 90ov+ cards so everyone runs to the store. I had one dude do circles around my guys … wtf

[@user-wd4zc3py4w]

Bad news? It’s great news. Now we don’t have to spend 79.99$ of shit product. EA SPORTS you get great graphics but you pay extra if you want to make your own team better with Hockey ultimate team because that’s what they care about is money from the consumer.

[@ShaggyGamerDudeTTV]

Perellzy is an absolute LEGEND

[@Perellzy]

Shaggy the goat

[@GankBott3M]

To be honest 2k is going in the same direction currently with their sports games as EA, so it probably won’t be much better, just think about the equivalent to NBA’s my player being in chel and how Grindy that is minus spending hundreds to max your character out, it’s potentially gonna be similar to how it’s going now, but only time will tell I guess.

[@Perellzy]

Agreed

[@Andrew-ub6ky]

NHL 11 was the first year for HUT and it was the best one

[@OSUbeatsmich]

New fan to hockey here ( I’m a caps fan), just like other sports, I usually get the video game that goes with it. but I’m wondering if I should get nhl 25 being I haven’t heard good things about it.

[@Perellzy]

If you want to play an NHL game i’d wait for NHL 25 instead of buying NHL 24, unless you have gamepass which you can play it for free

[@OSUbeatsmich]

Ok sounds good, thx for responding so quickly 😁

[@MyqGG]

I think this calls for some 6v6 HUT games / Shots & Blinkers per eashl goals🎉

[@Perellzy]

You had me at blinkers 😎

[@ghislainlussier8546]

People are undermining the game by encouraging the purchase of garbage packs for HUT. If no one bought their microtransactions and only supported the game for what it’s meant to be-an NHL showcase-they would have to focus on gameplay and realism. There’s so much unexploited potential out there, just by selling copies every year. Just make it fun and competitive for everyone.

[@noslipups3657]

I think EA still has the potential to make great games but they'd have to double or triple the amount of people they have working on these games to really get things done n even then they may have to skip a year still to catch the game up

[@jjs9913]

To be honest the World Champjonships are a fucking snooze fest....games ending 5-4 with shots on goal 10-8....the fact a player can posess the puck for 5+ minutes in the off zone passing around to look for 1 shots is terrible a d the defense can do nothing about it...strats dont work barely at all the game needs major work but EA doesnt care because you get the same 1% who drops 5-10k each on packs yet complain about the game...its not just hockey though Madden console and mobile are horrible for the same reason...no matter how bad the game is people spend boatloads of cash on micro transactions because they just need to have the best players available.

[@Perellzy]

Game is a product of the game

[@Azgoon69]

The fact that you only talked about one game mode and see this as the end of the franchise proves how the rest of the game is f*cking embarassing Also who are you considering casuals ? Are those who play this game every day either 1v1 online or franchise mode considered "casuals" because they never spend a single dollar on HUT ?

[@Perellzy]

I never said its the “end of the franchise” and I talk about Online because that’s what i make my content off of and what I care about the most. I don’t care much for offline gamemodes personally, so yeah its a big deal for me and others that play online, that’s why im covering it. I’d consider casuals people who play the game casually every now and then, are newer to the game, or maybe don’t have as much time on the game. Also I don’t think spending money on the game has anything to do with whether someone is a casual or not. I don’t spend money on the game but I don’t consider myself a casual, however I know people who have spent money but barely play the game.

[@kaiosun]

pve is casual

[@templeislandriven]

wen NHL on PC.

[@richmello2710]

EA Sports, It's all the same.

[@owsowmuskwanaistus9213]

that looks like ps 4 graphics

[@Perellzy]

Technically they are, it’s NHL 19 on xbox one

[@Jacko0_0]

This game still exists? I played till nhl16. And HUT mode was garbage. Yall buying online digital cards every year?😅😅😅😅😅😅 Yikes

[@Perellzy]

I ain’t buying shit brother. I used to, but not anymore. Ill never promote another microtransaction from EA again

[@Jacko0_0]

@Perellzy Thank God for that! Hope more like you emerge I'm still upset BTW. Nhl is all I used to play. Greedy loser corporations are the reason this world is in the state it is today.

[@Perellzy]

Yea for real it’s screwed up

[@joshbradfield629]

Franchise mode is the only mode for me. Just add a little bit extra to it and I’m happy

[@Clyde_Frog]

This game is not hockey it's figure skating with sticks, how can anyone play this crap