@ernie8401 it's tough I'm sure they want to do a better job but the resources just aren't there. That is no excuse for how many years Franchise has remained virtually identical though
YES THE GENERATED PLAYER FACE! THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR IT AND IT APPEARS FOR YOUR BE A PRO PLAYER! I was actually just talking about having the real coaches last night lol. The banner raising and jersey retirement yes! Everything you said should be added and most of them I already wanted myself. Also I think it would be cool if when signing a Free Agent you could view their awards. So let's say McDavid is a UFA and when you click on him you can see how many Art Ross Trophies, or Hart Trophies, or Stanley cups or etc he's won. Same with coaches (idk if you can already but like the Jack Adams and Presidents trophies and cups and stuff).
I'm pretty sure they show the generated faces of the coaches models like how we want it and how it appears for your player in Be A Pro. I'm always baffled why they can't do that for a player because that gives a face to your player. If you're a team like Pittsburgh that will lose Crosby and Co in about 5 years, when you rebuild, there's no identity let alone almost 15 years into the mode.
This is more about connected franchise, but I was thinking that you could create your own league with your friends and say you need at least six teams to start. That way you're not just 32 teams with six being controlled and 26 just being computers and as time goes on, maybe you add more people to the league and it grows naturally. Either with existing teams, completely created teams, or a combo.
i would like to see more mascot and jersey options and i would also like to see something like if you reach a certain millstone as a franchise like certain amount of Stanley cup wins or your the 33 team in your 10th year you unlock the ability to make a new jersey for your team
Id like a gm menu like nhl 2k with the gm office in the background, pick up the phone when trading, press conferences, interviews with gms, coaches, captain, asststans and goaltender, wayyyyyyy better commentary up to date stats and streaks about player infro etc also we need TEAM PRACTICE can manage fatigue and rust nba 2k practice mode is fun and bring back full presentation
*Team practice* , manage fatigue and rust Interviews with coach depending on your attitude answers your coach will reflect during games for instance if u have more angry answers he'll be more flamboyant or just add real coaches or custom coaches with personality abilities to see them on bench in games acting that way New live gm office background for franchise menu Headlights ect
Veteran/Rookie mentorship system like the NBA games. Rebuild the morale/chemistry system, Rebuild the coaching system, Rebuild the scouting system. Access info from past games, team/line comparisons before games. Options to line match. Options to control Time on Ice. Also better GM decision making from CPU teams. Just saw the cpu make the most insane trade for a 39 year old Crosby. It hasn't felt anything like a genuine SIM mode for many years.
Another idea I had: Have a 1/50, or at least a low odd chance that a first round draft pick (High Elite to High Franchise pot. excluded) will refuse to play for your team, making you have to trade a high quality prospect, bringing more realism and bringing situations like Cutter Gauthier, and Eric Lindros to the game.
That would be really cool, and thinking about it would bring more importance to draft interviews we're a player may tell you he has no indication of signing a contract
May I add one… make a one button trigger or something to change your backup goalies without having to go to edit lines. Something on the main UI. Been asking for years lol. Great video. Great rosters!
Alot of the things you touched on I actually mentioned in my rant on my page. As of now like you said I'm not holding my breathe on any of these things to happen
As a player who owns every single NHL game since 98, here are my responses to each add. (I am also a mainly franchise mode player) 1. The problem with adding LTIR is they would also have to add career ending injuries, and having played a different sim that had that as a mechanic, it really doesn't add anything and if anything it actually makes the game worse because you could randomly lose your best player forever, which doesn't make the game more fun it just makes you waste assets. Furthermore, if you got the option to put players on the LTIR for every injury, that would slow the game down immensely. 2. Again, with suspensions, similar to LTIR, I feel this would simply slow the game down for little to no benefit. 3. Completely agree 4. Completely agree 5. Completely agree 6. Completely agree 7. While I agree, it would just slow down the sim more. It was also featured in the other sim I played, and it was really really slow. 8. Simming an entire extra LEAGUE would slow the simming down so badly. I agree sending players down an extra level would be super valuable, but the slowness would be awful 9. Completely agree 10. Probably a minor simming issue but otherwise completely agree 11. Completely agree 12. Completely agree 13. Completely agree 14. Completely agree 15. Completely agree 16. The trade deadline minigame has really not added anything, I feel adding a free agent frenzy game would do similar 17. Completely agree 18. Completely agree 19. Completely agree 20. This would slow down the sim a lot. Almost as much as simming a whole extra league. 21. Completely agree 22. Completely agree 23. Completely agree 24. Completely agree I know you didn't ask my opinion but I decided to provide it anyway. Great vid!
Thanks man! Ya, I do overall agree with you while I think alot of my suggestions would be really cool to see added, I think, the technical issue of just being able to add some of these features may be a difficult task. Still wanted to have them on the list, but I 100% can see that especially when sim speed has finally got to a somewhat decent spot haha
One thing I wish they allowed us to do inside franchise mode was to customize overalls. Most sports games have it. Yes, it's not realistic, but I love that because i'd hate to draft someone who's elite potential and just doesn't grow to anything. It's also a video game which is supposed to be fun for people. Another thing I wish they added was the ability to turn on and off the abilities regression system.
Ya honestly its an offline game mode I don't see why that would be an issue, unfortunately I don't know if I see it though especially since they won't even let us change player types in Franchise any more
Great Video and list Vasy!! I really liked the LTIR, All Star Game, Skills competition, Winter Classic ideas. Also the GM part, to be able to accept players to World Juniors or ECHL would add another layer on the Franchise mode. The Generated plater faces need to be fixed, I also would like us to be able to edit all generated players faces. Real life coaches would be amazing, and thing of all different story lines you would be able to have with that. Moving draftpicks outside the franchise mode is also a must. Merging EA roster with the one you created is not an option, if you dont want to redo everything again. The only thing I miss in your list is the possibility to manage more than one franchise at the same time, just like you can do in season mode. Hopefully some of this will be added in NHL 25!!
In NHL 17 i made a Expansion team named them the Kansas City Scouts when i was doing the Expansion draft the Canucks, Predators , Islanders somehow did a 3 team trade the Canucks had Lee , Barzal Predators had Markstrom , Mayfeild the Islanders Rinne , Forsberg i forget the defenseman from the Canucks they had and there was a couple minor leagues for all 3 teams i had to look it up
Not sure if you mentioned this but it would really good to add protected draft picks for picks that have already been traded IRL and also for picks that you trade while playing
I am big on the ECHL replacing Jr as the league they can grow in. I think if you draft someone they should be put in the ECHL until you sign them and then they are in the AHL.
I would really like for the defunct teams (Hartford, Quebec etc) to be prebuilt in create a team for Franchise mode. No roster but maybe a classic and an updated look to use them as expansion teams.
today mode: start the nhl from the time of the day, so you can get the actual stats and records of teams. i know madden, 2k, and maybe even the show have this. also player tags (which i know madden has) could add something like playoff performer or a playoff flopper, which makes players perform better or worse in the playoffs (tags can be added over time)
I think being able to loan players back to Europe would be cool and realistic, like for example Anton Wahlberg have been loaned to Malmö after signing ELC with Buffalo. There are tons of other examples like that. Instead of sending them to the AHL where they might be too low OVR. I'd rather have that than ECHL as the european leagues are likely slightly better for development than ECHL and they are already in the game and not utilized. I wish they would fix the coaches. my goalie coach doesn't want to be a goalie coach he wants to be assistant coach like wtf? the coaching system is broken and useless right now.
That would be so awesome, its one of those things if we really are trying to replicate reality that would have to be added as it is common in today's NHL
As the season goes on, there should be franchise updates to allow me to start a franchise mode at the date of whatever roster update I downloaded, or draft or trade deadline or two weeks before trade deadline or playoffs or Christmas/New Year’s.
I never thought of that, but it's a great idea! I'd love to be able to start my franchise at a different point depending on whats happening with the real NHL
Also raised the banner when won the Division and the Conference...only Stanley Cup Banner is sucked...wish the whole all time list of every team...players trophies, coach records, team trophies, records of every single season and playoffs in franchise, u can play in a season with more than one GM at the same time or u can play as player for a team and coaching another and so on...two different videogames...one for off and one for online...
love this video but sadly dont think we will get any new presintation stuff ever since hut started hosting the gaming champions ship thats all they care about but involing franchise mode i wish gm connected was back i love online franchise on madden and i bet i would have lots of fun with it in nhl
I would love being able to create own mask for custom teams. It's annoying that when I start season, goalie has a default grey mask unless I remember to switch it to something more fitting. And it's annoying to use masks that don't fit your team's colors and style
I get that this type of video is all the rage for anyone in the EA sports franchise community. My question is: do we really think they ever consider anything in these type of vids?
Honestly probably not, but who knows I like to put something like this out like once a year. If we never ask, then we will definitely never get. I totally get that most likely the right people will never see this though!
I think a better solution to having the ECHL would just be the ability to loan players out, whether it be to the ECHL or to one of the European leagues. If they perform well, then they'll grow, similar to what you mentioned for free agents. lIf you had that, then your idea with loaning players for World Juniors would just be the same thing. I think you could definitely take the World Juniors another step forward, speaking of which. It's arguably the biggest international tournament in the world, it would be cool if prospects could have a really good tournament and go up in potential and/or draft stock if they're undrafted. The way prospects develop is so stale, they could definitely add something to liven it a tad. Also, side note, the reason they don't have coaches in the game is because a coach is removed from the NHL Coach's Association as soon as they're fired, so EA would have to remove them immediately and roll out a new roster or else they'd be vulnerable to a lawsuit. I think they should either let you customize them or just have static builds. That way at least if you start a FM you're not randomly getting a terrible coach that completely tanks your season or a great coach that makes you a playoff team when you want to tank.
Ya that 100% could work, honestly just having a non-roster spot for all these loans could fix so many situations and add a ton of depth to the mode! Oh I see that makes sense as regard to no having IRL coaches in currently. Still would be cool if they could contractually find a way to make it work with all coaches atleast when the season first starts
The sad part about this is. That i am sure they will talk about adding AI features to their production etc., but can not add any or very limited portions of this. I think about 15-20 of the things you mentioned here are easily doable for almost any company of EA NHL scale, but they just will say "resources" are not sufficient, whilst raking in all of the HUT resources year over year lol. I don't want to villainize that community (HUT), but the one and only reason why we don't get these features is because of HUT. if people stopped engaging with HUT they will either shutdown the game or force them to make FRANCHISE, BE A PRO, and potentially EASHL (because it is essentially a live service) much better.
Ya that's the unfortunate thing, all these offline modes that we all love are the ones that don't make EA money outside of the initial game purchase. At this point with the monetization of a HUT or EASHL will always be their focus cause of all the extra money they are brining in
I think generated player faces, a live world, a gm tracker, more expansion, and a longer time then 25 years would make the mode so much better, players are generated from every league in the draft and the NCAA isn’t needed with the USA leagues
I would love to see more depth in general for contracts. Oh I'll just offer this guy money and wait for a yes. Oh I'll offer this UFA a contract and he'll tell me no when he signs with a different team. Some players dont want to sign in canada, or with a division rival, or maybe they want to come to a roster thats ready to compete for the cup. Its shouldn't just be about contract dollars.
@VasyRosterUpdates The thing too is EA has already done that in older FIFA games with Messi And Ronaldo where neither will sign for The Opposing Club (Barca and Real Madrid)
Oh wow, haven't been big into FIFA myself didn't know they actually had that in their games. Hope that can be moved to NHL in situations where it makes sense
Every game EA makes seems to go above and beyond, then there's NHL. I feel like this is just a game that gets roster updates and maybe a few visual things every year. Maybe a control change if we're lucky. This game is just not important for them to develop. Every NHL game since 2015 has been a copy paste, with some minor UX, graphics, and roster changes
I just wish that GM Firing could be turned on while owner mode is off. It makes no sense that GM Firing can only happen if you're also acting as owner. Its never made sense.
Nice list! Currently franchise mode is extremely stale and boring. It feels like a dead world, unless you larp and create your own stories. I would love NHL 25 on PC with mod support, the possibilities would be endless...
Cap in the game needs to be fixed if you are against the Cap it's fine . where i have the problem is say i trade some players then say i have a 5 mil Cap space when trading or signing a players it would tell me i only have anywhere from 4 mil to 4.5 mill Cap space. Me i would love maybe cut scenes of players getting a C or A on their Jerseys . Speaking of Jerseys maybe a way to edit a Home & Away & Alt's in franchise or maybe in Franchise have it you can pick a old Home & Away & Alt and modernize them in the new fantantics look alot of the teams over the years update their old like in Adadis design like Hurricanes Whalers Jerseys over the years also would real coachs
100% agreed, especially being able to customize your teams jerseys. Maybe after winning a cup your allowed to rebrand or even just get a extra jersey slot!
@@VasyRosterUpdates I just posted on another YT nhl channel, that something is rotten in NHL series when old NHL games like 14 and 15 (legacy) feels more like a simulation of hockey than NHL 24... :/
In fifa it’s possible to become a national team coach while having your normal team. It would be fun to have something like that so you also look at drafting more. Like I take Ottawa and Germany and then trade for jj and reichel and try to draft as many German players as I can
deadass think nhl fans could make a better game than ea
There's an app on phones called Hockey League Manager that has no gameplay and is just menus but is better than NHL 😂
Fr. The nhl ea devs have the easiest jobs ever. They basically just reskin the game every year.
@ernie8401 it's tough I'm sure they want to do a better job but the resources just aren't there.
That is no excuse for how many years Franchise has remained virtually identical though
@@VasyRosterUpdates yup I only play franchise and be a pro been the same for years
@thehomieeugene6709 ya its exactly the same since NHL 21 I believe for BAP, I get maybe not doing something huge every year but thats not acceptable
YES THE GENERATED PLAYER FACE! THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR IT AND IT APPEARS FOR YOUR BE A PRO PLAYER! I was actually just talking about having the real coaches last night lol. The banner raising and jersey retirement yes! Everything you said should be added and most of them I already wanted myself. Also I think it would be cool if when signing a Free Agent you could view their awards. So let's say McDavid is a UFA and when you click on him you can see how many Art Ross Trophies, or Hart Trophies, or Stanley cups or etc he's won. Same with coaches (idk if you can already but like the Jack Adams and Presidents trophies and cups and stuff).
There's just so many small things that all together would immensely improve the mode!
Agreed, I wonder if the developers even like hockey.
Ya it's tough, I'm sure they want to make this game great but it seems like EA doesn't want to give them the resources
I'm pretty sure they show the generated faces of the coaches models like how we want it and how it appears for your player in Be A Pro. I'm always baffled why they can't do that for a player because that gives a face to your player. If you're a team like Pittsburgh that will lose Crosby and Co in about 5 years, when you rebuild, there's no identity let alone almost 15 years into the mode.
@noahcaplan7681 Exactly. Plus when I was talking about the coaches I was asking for the real coaches to be in the game
I think they should definetly make Free Agency more interactive kind of like how they made the trade deadline better
100% agreed! Would be awesome to see
I think NHL 14 had and a few other games around that time had the banner raise in your first regular season home game after winning a cup
*Team Practice* in franchise mode
Is a must for me
Nba 2k be a pro practice mode is so fun
This is more about connected franchise, but I was thinking that you could create your own league with your friends and say you need at least six teams to start. That way you're not just 32 teams with six being controlled and 26 just being computers and as time goes on, maybe you add more people to the league and it grows naturally. Either with existing teams, completely created teams, or a combo.
Keep up the amazing hockey videos
Thanks very much appreciated it!
i would like to see more mascot and jersey options and i would also like to see something like if you reach a certain millstone as a franchise like certain amount of Stanley cup wins or your the 33 team in your 10th year you unlock the ability to make a new jersey for your team
Love those suggestions, would love to see them added as well!
Id like a gm menu like nhl 2k with the gm office in the background, pick up the phone when trading, press conferences, interviews with gms, coaches, captain, asststans and goaltender, wayyyyyyy better commentary up to date stats and streaks about player infro etc also we need TEAM PRACTICE can manage fatigue and rust nba 2k practice mode is fun and bring back full presentation
*Team practice* , manage fatigue and rust
Interviews with coach depending on your attitude answers your coach will reflect during games for instance if u have more angry answers he'll be more flamboyant or just add real coaches or custom coaches with personality abilities to see them on bench in games acting that way
New live gm office background for franchise menu
Headlights ect
Veteran/Rookie mentorship system like the NBA games. Rebuild the morale/chemistry system, Rebuild the coaching system, Rebuild the scouting system. Access info from past games, team/line comparisons before games. Options to line match. Options to control Time on Ice. Also better GM decision making from CPU teams. Just saw the cpu make the most insane trade for a 39 year old Crosby. It hasn't felt anything like a genuine SIM mode for many years.
Something like that would be awesome, the more in depth they can go the better!
Another idea I had:
Have a 1/50, or at least a low odd chance that a first round draft pick (High Elite to High Franchise pot. excluded) will refuse to play for your team, making you have to trade a high quality prospect, bringing more realism and bringing situations like Cutter Gauthier, and Eric Lindros to the game.
That would be really cool, and thinking about it would bring more importance to draft interviews we're a player may tell you he has no indication of signing a contract
It would have to be like 1/100 or 1/200 because it really isn't that common
May I add one… make a one button trigger or something to change your backup goalies without having to go to edit lines. Something on the main UI. Been asking for years lol. Great video. Great rosters!
Thanks so much much appreciated! Totally agreed, alot of the time its those small UI elements that would be so nice to see improvements to
Alot of the things you touched on I actually mentioned in my rant on my page. As of now like you said I'm not holding my breathe on any of these things to happen
Ya same here unfortunately, maybe we can get one or 2 smaller additions, will have to wait and see
@@VasyRosterUpdates do you think we can make a collab video?
@Almighty88842 Down the road, I'd potentially be open to that, but I haven't really been looking at colabs at least at the moment
As a player who owns every single NHL game since 98, here are my responses to each add. (I am also a mainly franchise mode player)
1. The problem with adding LTIR is they would also have to add career ending injuries, and having played a different sim that had that as a mechanic, it really doesn't add anything and if anything it actually makes the game worse because you could randomly lose your best player forever, which doesn't make the game more fun it just makes you waste assets. Furthermore, if you got the option to put players on the LTIR for every injury, that would slow the game down immensely.
2. Again, with suspensions, similar to LTIR, I feel this would simply slow the game down for little to no benefit.
3. Completely agree
4. Completely agree
5. Completely agree
6. Completely agree
7. While I agree, it would just slow down the sim more. It was also featured in the other sim I played, and it was really really slow.
8. Simming an entire extra LEAGUE would slow the simming down so badly. I agree sending players down an extra level would be super valuable, but the slowness would be awful
9. Completely agree
10. Probably a minor simming issue but otherwise completely agree
11. Completely agree
12. Completely agree
13. Completely agree
14. Completely agree
15. Completely agree
16. The trade deadline minigame has really not added anything, I feel adding a free agent frenzy game would do similar
17. Completely agree
18. Completely agree
19. Completely agree
20. This would slow down the sim a lot. Almost as much as simming a whole extra league.
21. Completely agree
22. Completely agree
23. Completely agree
24. Completely agree
I know you didn't ask my opinion but I decided to provide it anyway. Great vid!
Thanks man! Ya, I do overall agree with you while I think alot of my suggestions would be really cool to see added, I think, the technical issue of just being able to add some of these features may be a difficult task. Still wanted to have them on the list, but I 100% can see that especially when sim speed has finally got to a somewhat decent spot haha
Jersey retirements and college players are by far my biggest wishes
Would absolutely love both as well!
One thing I wish they allowed us to do inside franchise mode was to customize overalls. Most sports games have it. Yes, it's not realistic, but I love that because i'd hate to draft someone who's elite potential and just doesn't grow to anything. It's also a video game which is supposed to be fun for people. Another thing I wish they added was the ability to turn on and off the abilities regression system.
Ya honestly its an offline game mode I don't see why that would be an issue, unfortunately I don't know if I see it though especially since they won't even let us change player types in Franchise any more
Great Video and list Vasy!!
I really liked the LTIR, All Star Game, Skills competition, Winter Classic ideas. Also the GM part, to be able to accept players to World Juniors or ECHL would add another layer on the Franchise mode.
The Generated plater faces need to be fixed, I also would like us to be able to edit all generated players faces.
Real life coaches would be amazing, and thing of all different story lines you would be able to have with that.
Moving draftpicks outside the franchise mode is also a must. Merging EA roster with the one you created is not an option, if you dont want to redo everything again.
The only thing I miss in your list is the possibility to manage more than one franchise at the same time, just like you can do in season mode.
Hopefully some of this will be added in NHL 25!!
Thanks man very much appreciated! Ya thats actually one I missed would be nice to have the ability to control more then 1 team in Franchise!
In NHL 17 i made a Expansion team named them the Kansas City Scouts when i was doing the Expansion draft the Canucks, Predators , Islanders somehow did a 3 team trade the Canucks had Lee , Barzal Predators had Markstrom , Mayfeild the Islanders Rinne , Forsberg i forget the defenseman from the Canucks they had and there was a couple minor leagues for all 3 teams i had to look it up
Not sure if you mentioned this but it would really good to add protected draft picks for picks that have already been traded IRL and also for picks that you trade while playing
That would be amazing to have, its so common in IRL NHL so definitely something we need down the road!
I am big on the ECHL replacing Jr as the league they can grow in. I think if you draft someone they should be put in the ECHL until you sign them and then they are in the AHL.
I would really like for the defunct teams (Hartford, Quebec etc) to be prebuilt in create a team for Franchise mode. No roster but maybe a classic and an updated look to use them as expansion teams.
That's would be awesome to see!
today mode: start the nhl from the time of the day, so you can get the actual stats and records of teams. i know madden, 2k, and maybe even the show have this. also player tags (which i know madden has) could add something like playoff performer or a playoff flopper, which makes players perform better or worse in the playoffs (tags can be added over time)
I would love to see all this!
I think being able to loan players back to Europe would be cool and realistic, like for example Anton Wahlberg have been loaned to Malmö after signing ELC with Buffalo. There are tons of other examples like that. Instead of sending them to the AHL where they might be too low OVR. I'd rather have that than ECHL as the european leagues are likely slightly better for development than ECHL and they are already in the game and not utilized.
I wish they would fix the coaches. my goalie coach doesn't want to be a goalie coach he wants to be assistant coach like wtf? the coaching system is broken and useless right now.
That would be so awesome, its one of those things if we really are trying to replicate reality that would have to be added as it is common in today's NHL
As the season goes on, there should be franchise updates to allow me to start a franchise mode at the date of whatever roster update I downloaded, or draft or trade deadline or two weeks before trade deadline or playoffs or Christmas/New Year’s.
I never thought of that, but it's a great idea! I'd love to be able to start my franchise at a different point depending on whats happening with the real NHL
Also raised the banner when won the Division and the Conference...only Stanley Cup Banner is sucked...wish the whole all time list of every team...players trophies, coach records, team trophies, records of every single season and playoffs in franchise, u can play in a season with more than one GM at the same time or u can play as player for a team and coaching another and so on...two different videogames...one for off and one for online...
They should bring back the be a pro stick felx options an the curves. Like the ol days
I totally forgot that was even a thing haha
You have the best rosters in NHL
Thanks man! 💙
I really hope Ea makes it so you can put your roster on Xbox and PlayStation
That would be huge, really hopethat comes next year
f they still do old gen, pls cross gen 🙏
@@jacobfilicetti5805 I’m not too sure but I have a feeling Nhl 25 won’t be on the ps4 and Xbox one but who knows
love this video but sadly dont think we will get any new presintation stuff ever since hut started hosting the gaming champions ship thats all they care about but involing franchise mode i wish gm connected was back i love online franchise on madden and i bet i would have lots of fun with it in nhl
Ya unfortunately I do totally agree with you! Hopefully atleast next year we'll get that GM Connected mode back, if not forsure for the year after!
I know it won’t happen but it will be cool if they put the ECHL in the Franchise Mode who ever nhl has a affiliation with
I would absolutely love to see that to! Maybe one day!
I would love being able to create own mask for custom teams. It's annoying that when I start season, goalie has a default grey mask unless I remember to switch it to something more fitting. And it's annoying to use masks that don't fit your team's colors and style
Ya absolutely, that would be really nice to see added. There current options are definitely not great
I get that this type of video is all the rage for anyone in the EA sports franchise community. My question is: do we really think they ever consider anything in these type of vids?
Honestly probably not, but who knows
I like to put something like this out like once a year. If we never ask, then we will definitely never get. I totally get that most likely the right people will never see this though!
There should be something like team builder for cf25 (College Football 25)
I do agree, overall I don't hate what we currently have but it can definitely be expanded!
I think a better solution to having the ECHL would just be the ability to loan players out, whether it be to the ECHL or to one of the European leagues. If they perform well, then they'll grow, similar to what you mentioned for free agents. lIf you had that, then your idea with loaning players for World Juniors would just be the same thing. I think you could definitely take the World Juniors another step forward, speaking of which. It's arguably the biggest international tournament in the world, it would be cool if prospects could have a really good tournament and go up in potential and/or draft stock if they're undrafted. The way prospects develop is so stale, they could definitely add something to liven it a tad.
Also, side note, the reason they don't have coaches in the game is because a coach is removed from the NHL Coach's Association as soon as they're fired, so EA would have to remove them immediately and roll out a new roster or else they'd be vulnerable to a lawsuit. I think they should either let you customize them or just have static builds. That way at least if you start a FM you're not randomly getting a terrible coach that completely tanks your season or a great coach that makes you a playoff team when you want to tank.
Ya that 100% could work, honestly just having a non-roster spot for all these loans could fix so many situations and add a ton of depth to the mode!
Oh I see that makes sense as regard to no having IRL coaches in currently. Still would be cool if they could contractually find a way to make it work with all coaches atleast when the season first starts
The sad part about this is. That i am sure they will talk about adding AI features to their production etc., but can not add any or very limited portions of this. I think about 15-20 of the things you mentioned here are easily doable for almost any company of EA NHL scale, but they just will say "resources" are not sufficient, whilst raking in all of the HUT resources year over year lol. I don't want to villainize that community (HUT), but the one and only reason why we don't get these features is because of HUT. if people stopped engaging with HUT they will either shutdown the game or force them to make FRANCHISE, BE A PRO, and potentially EASHL (because it is essentially a live service) much better.
Ya that's the unfortunate thing, all these offline modes that we all love are the ones that don't make EA money outside of the initial game purchase. At this point with the monetization of a HUT or EASHL will always be their focus cause of all the extra money they are brining in
I think generated player faces, a live world, a gm tracker, more expansion, and a longer time then 25 years would make the mode so much better, players are generated from every league in the draft and the NCAA isn’t needed with the USA leagues
Totally agreed! Alot of the time its just some of these smaller additions that can really help the mode feel fresh!
I would love to see more depth in general for contracts. Oh I'll just offer this guy money and wait for a yes. Oh I'll offer this UFA a contract and he'll tell me no when he signs with a different team. Some players dont want to sign in canada, or with a division rival, or maybe they want to come to a roster thats ready to compete for the cup. Its shouldn't just be about contract dollars.
Totally agree with you it should be way more into the decision then just the $ amount!
@VasyRosterUpdates The thing too is EA has already done that in older FIFA games with Messi And Ronaldo where neither will sign for The Opposing Club (Barca and Real Madrid)
Oh wow, haven't been big into FIFA myself didn't know they actually had that in their games. Hope that can be moved to NHL in situations where it makes sense
Every game EA makes seems to go above and beyond, then there's NHL. I feel like this is just a game that gets roster updates and maybe a few visual things every year. Maybe a control change if we're lucky. This game is just not important for them to develop. Every NHL game since 2015 has been a copy paste, with some minor UX, graphics, and roster changes
You should rename this video, "Things we will never get."
Haha honestly, you're not wrong!
I just wish that GM Firing could be turned on while owner mode is off. It makes no sense that GM Firing can only happen if you're also acting as owner. Its never made sense.
That would be a really nice QOL fix, would love to see that to!
literally just make franchise mode like myleague in 2k and i’ll be hyped
Thats would be amazing haha! 2K had some awesome features
Nice list! Currently franchise mode is extremely stale and boring. It feels like a dead world, unless you larp and create your own stories. I would love NHL 25 on PC with mod support, the possibilities would be endless...
Thanks man! Ya completely agree I would love to see the game on PC!
If I download your roster and make a player do it effect your team roster in NHL 24 ?
It should not at all, anything you add will just be added on top of the roster I've put out!
@@VasyRosterUpdates if I make Amanda Kessel would she be on your roster or no ?
@sniperwolfpackhockey8359 yes 100% if you made her you'd have her plus anyone I already made!
@@VasyRosterUpdates She would be on your team roster also
@@VasyRosterUpdates are you gonna make the IIHF women worlds for 2024 ? Because I can
Doesn’t LTIR already exist? If a player is injured, I don’t think their salary counts towards the cap
I think it still does, if a star player goes down I personally don't recall seeing large amounts of cap space then
Cap in the game needs to be fixed if you are against the Cap it's fine . where i have the problem is say i trade some players then say i have a 5 mil Cap space when trading or signing a players it would tell me i only have anywhere from 4 mil to 4.5 mill Cap space. Me i would love maybe cut scenes of players getting a C or A on their Jerseys . Speaking of Jerseys maybe a way to edit a Home & Away & Alt's in franchise or maybe in Franchise have it you can pick a old Home & Away & Alt and modernize them in the new fantantics look alot of the teams over the years update their old like in Adadis design like Hurricanes Whalers Jerseys over the years also would real coachs
100% agreed, especially being able to customize your teams jerseys. Maybe after winning a cup your allowed to rebrand or even just get a extra jersey slot!
2K was the best
Custom. Music.
God I wish this was on PC I know for a fact this would all have been mods already
100% the possibilities would be endless with all the mods people would create!
I have a question
Forsure man!
we won't see 1/5 of this unfortunaetly :(
Not for a very long time if ever anyways!
@@VasyRosterUpdates I just posted on another YT nhl channel, that something is rotten in NHL series when old NHL games like 14 and 15 (legacy) feels more like a simulation of hockey than NHL 24... :/
@fv7669 absolutely agree with you, there was just something about those older titles that I really miss!
In fifa it’s possible to become a national team coach while having your normal team. It would be fun to have something like that so you also look at drafting more. Like I take Ottawa and Germany and then trade for jj and reichel and try to draft as many German players as I can
That wod be super cool as well, not as familiar with the FIFA games myself so good to know!