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Two popular game modes from earlier NHL titles will not appear in the PS4 and Xbox One versions of NHL 15, EA has confirmed.
EA Sports Hockey League and GM Connected will both be absent from the next-gen releases, the former offering a 6 vs. 6 player mode that had proved popular with fans.
The two modes will still be available in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.
“Given our commitment to build a truly new generation of hockey games for our fans, we had to make some tough design decisions,” said producer Sean Ramjagsingh. “I’m writing this to let you know that despite our team’s best effort to squeeze as much into the game as possible at launch, we will not be able to deliver EA SPORTS Hockey League or Online Team Play when NHL 15 releases on September 9 for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.”
EASHL will return in future NHL titles, though, EA says.
“As a franchise, we’re 100 per cent committed to the EA SPORTS Hockey League,” continued Ramjagsingh. “While we can’t deliver EASHL in NHL 15 on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, we have huge plans for the mode in future iterations of the game. We will be putting together a small EASHL committee made up of you, the fans, to ensure that we deliver an experience that is bigger and better than any of us would have imagined when we first introduced the feature in NHL 09.
“Decisions like this are never easy, nor do we take them lightly. We know that there is a passionate group of fans that loves these modes and is no doubt disappointed with this news; but we also know that this same group of fans expects a high quality gameplay experience above anything else. We’re a franchise built on quality, so launching these modes without confidence in their quality wasn’t something that we were willing to do.
NHL 15 launches on Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360 and PS3 on September 12.
Source: easports.com
