When EA Sports started to advertise the upcoming technical test for NHL 23, that meant the game’s arrival is finally getting closer.
It’s expected to come out in August, and we should get more information on the game in due time. For NHL video gamers, the excitement over even the smallest information on the next game is about to ramp up.
But, as always, it’s easy to be cautiously optimistic for the next offering. The EA NHL video game series has been criticized for its lack of true additions and improvements to the game, with the same bugs being abused for years and years and nothing truly game-changing coming to the series in quite some time.
If there is a major feature this year, we’re not aware of it yet. So, let’s just look at some simple fixes that would make the playing experience so much better:
Crossplay, or at least CrossGen
With every new console video game generation, you’ll get people lagging back and waiting a few years to pick up the newest system.
This time around, though, it’s a much bigger issue. Due to chip shortages preventing more PS5s from flooding the market, it’s been an extremely difficult two years for people looking to snag one. It’s been a bit easier the past few months, but if you weren’t actively seeking one consistently, you had a tough time getting what you wanted.
So, on both the Playstation and Xbox side of things, the game was split into four versions representing the past two console generations. That meant, unlike in NHL 21 where it was the same game on both generations, allowing people from the same console family to play together regardless of system, you couldn’t do that in 22. If you had a team of six people you typically play with, and one didn’t have the latest hardware, they were essentially relegated to the AHL.
I can’t explain how frustrating it is a month or two after the game to have to wait 2-3 minutes for a game of 3s Eliminator, a fun, arcade-style mode that should have no issue finding available teams to play. And then half the time after you’d get into the match, there’d be a server issue and you’d have to start all over again.
Crossplay — or in the case of this specific example, crossmarket — would also be a huge boost for the HUT community, allowing you to buy and sell cards with people on other
FIFA 23 and F1 22 both have crossplay enabled, so there’s hope that, maybe, just maybe, fans of the NHL franchise will get it. But I wouldn’t get your hopes up, either. If we can’t get crossplay enabled, could we…
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