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EASHL Committee / EA NHL GameChangers Event #2 Recap!



This past week, the group of people introduced as the "EASHL Committee" and now known as "EA GameChangers" attended the EA studio in Burnaby, British Columbia for the second meeting.



While the first meeting held in January was discussions, debates and conferences with various members of the development team, the second one was more play-testing and giving direct feedback.



Legally, the required thing for us to say is "We attended the EA studio in which we play-tested a possible future iteration of EA Sports NHL and its game modes." - use your intuition and you should probably be able to decipher it.



EA Sports themselves will be making an announcement about this new iteration to the franchise sometime this month.



We arrived Wednesday April 29th and departed Friday night May 1st or Saturday during the day May 2nd. The event started on Thursday and we spent a portion of the first day re-meeting with the software engineers, computer design and other members of the development team in which they showed us what they had accomplished from the time we left last meeting to now. Many things that we advised and suggested to them were addressed.

We then spent approximately the next nine hours playing in a room with twelve xbox one development kits, two projectors and a whiteboard full of feedback that we gave them.

A picture of the set-up can be viewed here :



The second day we came back we started in the morning and played for another seven or eight hours before saying our goodbyes and leaving.



At this point in time, the game we played was an alpha/beta version of what may come in the future. For the most part, all of the core features they have planned have been implemented and work properly. There are some things which still need to be fixed, tuned and perfected.



If everything that they said will be done in the next few month actually gets done, then I will be very excited for the next installment of the EA franchise. I'd rate the beta game I played at a 9/10. For reference, I'd give the current NHL 15 game a generous 6.5/10



I can try to answer questions to the best of my ability.



-Oohwayy



Edit: I'm no longer on twitter anymore. The account " @TheJonnyOohwayy " is not me. Please do not trust that as a legitimate source. My only access to twitter is via @YouTubeOohwayy in which I only view tweets and don't actually tweet anymore myself. Hello OS.This past week, the group of people introduced as the "EASHL Committee" and now known as "EA GameChangers" attended the EA studio in Burnaby, British Columbia for the second meeting.While the first meeting held in January was discussions, debates and conferences with various members of the development team, the second one was more play-testing and giving direct feedback.Legally, the required thing for us to say is "We attended the EA studio in which we play-tested a possible future iteration of EA Sports NHL and its game modes." - use your intuition and you should probably be able to decipher it.EA Sports themselves will be making an announcement about this new iteration to the franchise sometime this month.We arrived Wednesday April 29th and departed Friday night May 1st or Saturday during the day May 2nd. The event started on Thursday and we spent a portion of the first day re-meeting with the software engineers, computer design and other members of the development team in which they showed us what they had accomplished from the time we left last meeting to now. Many things that we advised and suggested to them were addressed.We then spent approximately the next nine hours playing in a room with twelve xbox one development kits, two projectors and a whiteboard full of feedback that we gave them.A picture of the set-up can be viewed here : http://gyazo.com/6b3ac6da771f6126af4eb0cb6f4a50b8 The second day we came back we started in the morning and played for another seven or eight hours before saying our goodbyes and leaving.At this point in time, the game we played was an alpha/beta version of what may come in the future. For the most part, all of the core features they have planned have been implemented and work properly. There are some things which still need to be fixed, tuned and perfected.If everything that they said will be done in the next few month actually gets done, then I will be very excited for the next installment of the EA franchise. I'd rate the beta game I played at a 9/10. For reference, I'd give the current NHL 15 game a generous 6.5/10I can try to answer questions to the best of my ability.-OohwayyEdit: I'm no longer on twitter anymore. The account " @TheJonnyOohwayy " is not me. Please do not trust that as a legitimate source. My only access to twitter is via @YouTubeOohwayy in which I only view tweets and don't actually tweet anymore myself. AdamJones113, headzapp and Cletus like this. Last edited by Oohwayy; 05-04-2015 at 10:53 PM . Reason: Adding in that last part.