They have more tools in their toolbox now, more differentiation in the way that they can make saves. вЂњWhat it means for fans playing the game is youвЂ™re going to see the goalies with different behavior. Last year we had Eddie Lack come in here and do some motion capture for us, which really helped being a big goalie himself in terms of just nailing that technique. So, a lot more efficient movement and for us we wanted to make sure that we replicated that. Then when we looked at the real world of hockey versus our game and took an objective view of the differences, we looked at the way goalies play today, and so many of todayвЂ™s goalies are 6вЂ™4, 6вЂ™5, 6вЂ™6, 6вЂ™7, in some cases, the way the goaltending positionвЂ™s evolved over the last 15-20 years some of the big guys now today are just so positionally sound and take up so much space in the net that theyвЂ™re less frequently having to scramble because of desperation, big limb saves with their arms or their legs and are just more positionally sound and making shorter movements, little shoulder shrugs and things like that. One was just really just continuing to focus on the precision control and the balance of the entire gameplay experience and that forced us to touch base with every system that we had within our gameplay. вЂњWhen we looked at our gameplay as a whole thereвЂ™s a couple things that we focused on. Compared to NHL 16, how are goalies going to be different this year? IвЂ™m curious about goaltending this year and the Reactionary Save Intelligence youвЂ™re promoting for NHL 17.

Note: Since vintage NHL logos and jerseys are already in the game, you can bring back teams like the Hartford Whalers or Quebec Nordiques in modes like Franchise where you can move to various cities.) So weвЂ™d have to oversee every single asset that goes into the game or be able to react really, really quickly when people flag stuff as inappropriate.вЂќ The challenge associated with that, with the Internet these days, itвЂ™s just tough to moderate what actually gets uploaded into the game and weвЂ™d have to monitor every asset based on our E10+ rating. ItвЂ™s something that other games have done that weвЂ™ll look at. Will fans be able to create their own logos and upload them into the game? ItвЂ™s something we have our eyes on, but no firm commitment or date weвЂ™re going to commit to quite yet, but itвЂ™s something weвЂ™re definitely watching closely.вЂќ For us, weвЂ™re sort of taking a back seat right now, watching FIFA and seeing how the story mode resonates with their fans, seeing what we learn are from them on the creative, on the development, on the fan side of things and then weвЂ™ll evaluate for the future.

I say this all the time but I think every year we get better and better at just sharing within EA SPORTS ourselves, working closely with the FIFA team, working closely with the MADDEN team. вЂњItвЂ™s fantastic what FIFAвЂ™s doing right now. When can we expect something like that in the NHL series? For people that play in the EA Sports Hockey League and leveraging the customization of the progression mechanics, lots of great feedback as to other stuff that people want see for customization down the road added to the suite of customization assets that we have added to the game right now, which is great.вЂќДЇIFA is introducing a story mode this year based on a player coming through Manchester United. вЂњPeople really enjoyed the customization that we made available. Just minor, minor things with gameplay that weвЂ™ve been tuning and tweaking and creating a new tuner set for so we have that experience dialed in for when the game launches. The biggest thing was lot of feedback in the EA Sports Hockey League around the balancing of the different classes so we worked closely with our game-changers, the group nominated by the fans to represent them working with us closely, to really interpret the feedback that weвЂ™re getting around the balance amongst the player classes in the EA Sports Hockey League. I would say nothing major, nothing game-changing for us.

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