NHL09 is the same crap as NHL 06
Wednesday, 23. July 2008, 23:47:09
NHL09 will be here in September-October timeframe as usual...
I am PC owner without any console...
So I am as many others sentenced to the OLD GEN version of this series. There are reports saying that NHL09 will be no exception. If It is true, we will get another NHL06 based game... The price will be lower than PS3 or X360 versions but IMHO still VERY HIGH for the DATADISK or NHL06 patched version....
HERE Peter Moore complains about PC gaming market which is full of piracy and decline. And that is why he is not willing to give us same quality as to the console users.
But IMHO he has forgotten several facts in his article:
1) Who has funded EA all those years during which there were no PC comparable consoles? PC users, of course.
2) Isn´t it act of piracy and cheating by EA themselves when they are just patching 3 years old code trying to sell it every year as brand new PC game? Maybe less PC gamers would be reluctant to buy NEXT GEN NHL PC verison, don´t you think? Is the level or ways of piracy nowadays so different than 3 years ago when they stopped developing the series for PC?
3) When the PC versions are so different, why I have won my FIRST NHL08 game with the score 15:3 using difficult level of gameplay and the exactly same tricks as in NHL06 and NHL07?!?!? See my yesterdays game below playing season with the FLYERS on difficult level (each period is 10min long). Wait for the final score at the end of the video....
4) There are successful PC games which have managed to avoid first most damaging piracy waves after releasing the game - Bioshock, Mass effect etc. Why do not apply it to EA SPORTS games?
I understand business rules and cost/profit ratio which is better and easier to get on consoles, but are those creator of PC version of the Assassin Creed or Mass Effect mad to do that then? No, they know the fact that if the game is good, you will get also very good money of the PC versions of these games.
NHL PC series sucks and that is why Moore cannot expect huge sales...
UPDATE: I have just installed NHL09 and played my first game on difficulty level... Again, it is the same game as in NHL 06. Even the graphics is worse because I play NHL 08 with Reebook high resolution graphic pack See the first NHL 09 video...
UPDATE March 2009 : EA sport finally decided to cancel NHL for PC after terrible NHL09. So there will be no NHL10 for PC. But on the other hand Take 2 announced that they would make NHL 2K10 for PC!!! So maybe we (PC gamers) will receive next gen hockey after long years of starving. Lets hope
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I am PC owner without any console...
So I am as many others sentenced to the OLD GEN version of this series. There are reports saying that NHL09 will be no exception. If It is true, we will get another NHL06 based game... The price will be lower than PS3 or X360 versions but IMHO still VERY HIGH for the DATADISK or NHL06 patched version....
HERE Peter Moore complains about PC gaming market which is full of piracy and decline. And that is why he is not willing to give us same quality as to the console users.
But IMHO he has forgotten several facts in his article:
1) Who has funded EA all those years during which there were no PC comparable consoles? PC users, of course.
2) Isn´t it act of piracy and cheating by EA themselves when they are just patching 3 years old code trying to sell it every year as brand new PC game? Maybe less PC gamers would be reluctant to buy NEXT GEN NHL PC verison, don´t you think? Is the level or ways of piracy nowadays so different than 3 years ago when they stopped developing the series for PC?
3) When the PC versions are so different, why I have won my FIRST NHL08 game with the score 15:3 using difficult level of gameplay and the exactly same tricks as in NHL06 and NHL07?!?!? See my yesterdays game below playing season with the FLYERS on difficult level (each period is 10min long). Wait for the final score at the end of the video....
4) There are successful PC games which have managed to avoid first most damaging piracy waves after releasing the game - Bioshock, Mass effect etc. Why do not apply it to EA SPORTS games?
I understand business rules and cost/profit ratio which is better and easier to get on consoles, but are those creator of PC version of the Assassin Creed or Mass Effect mad to do that then? No, they know the fact that if the game is good, you will get also very good money of the PC versions of these games.
NHL PC series sucks and that is why Moore cannot expect huge sales...
UPDATE: I have just installed NHL09 and played my first game on difficulty level... Again, it is the same game as in NHL 06. Even the graphics is worse because I play NHL 08 with Reebook high resolution graphic pack See the first NHL 09 video...
UPDATE March 2009 : EA sport finally decided to cancel NHL for PC after terrible NHL09. So there will be no NHL10 for PC. But on the other hand Take 2 announced that they would make NHL 2K10 for PC!!! So maybe we (PC gamers) will receive next gen hockey after long years of starving. Lets hope
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