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Old 07-05-2018, 03:31 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by ernie View Post
In the end, the NHL series doesn't sell enough copies for any company to truly care about truly investing in it...let alone a company like EA. They know they'll sell about 800k copies every year and there are unlikely to be features that truly make an impact on the sales numbers. So they are content to simply tweak what they have and have those 800k buy the game again. It's likely a nice little earner for them every year and that's about it.
This is the problem the studio faces, and why it continues to get complaints about not enough changes done to the game compared to the previous iteration. It doesn't make the amount of money the bigger franchises like FIFA and Madden makes, so they get a smaller team and budget to work it.

The NHL series can only make small gains per year overall, since they have to be more selective in where they allocate their resources, while making enough changes overall to draw enough sales for the new version. And for a game mode like HUT, they have to put focus on it since it draws in revenue. This is why a cool feature like online Franchise Mode keeps getting kept off the menu. It's a cool feature, and should get lots play if it functions properly, but it'll require a lot of work and time to do it, and they'll prefer to put it towards something they consider a higher priority presently to generate sales.
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