NHL 24 Franchise Wishlist [ Edited ]

[johum2886]

Since NHL 23's Franchise did a fantastic job of listening to the communities wants, I'll bite the bullet and start the list for next year

Some of this stuff could be in the game this year, but I wouldn't know since I have yet to buy it. List is in no particular order (although some are more important than others).

Ones in bold are the ones I think would be valuable inclusions

Ones in italics are the ones that need to be in the game yesterday

• ability to edit players
• ability to edit existing jerseys or add new ones
• new menus
• ability to create custom logos
• no-trade/move clauses (and modified versions)
• being able to edit draft classes, or custom draft classes
• sim engine logic
• real NHL coaches
• hall of fame inductees
• international leagues and free agents (even of it is not the KHL)
• ability to retire numbers
• advanced analytics? (corsi, xGF, xSV%, etc.)
• free agency revamp (have players sign on the day it opens and not the 8th of july)
• conditional draft picks in trades
• elite forward and defencemen player types (McDavid and Makar would be elite players while Marchand and Ekblad would only be 1st line/top pair)
• dual archetypes (expanding on the playmaker, sniper, two-way)
  • pure playmaker/sniper (Backstrom/Ovechkin)
  • playmaking sniper/sniping playmaker (Matthews/McDavid)
  • offensive/defensive two-way (Barkov/Aston-Reese)
  • replicate for defencemen
• winter classic/outdoor games/wjc/olympics/world championship
• custom goalie masks
• able to trade more than 5 assets
• player loyalty and value of winning/money
• add more hockey analysts to the news tab (it can be joe smith for all i care, just more than one)
• able to see box scores from calendar menu
• give cpu gm's a name and face
• expansion/rebrand of teams after beginning mode
• playoff/pre-season/post-deadline rosters are not limited to 23 players
• be able to loan players to europe or ahl teams
• player progression/regression sliders
• ridiculous contract demands from players
• development or loss of zone abilities
• be able to relocate AHL team
• player agents
• cba accurate entry level contracts
• college free agents (does not have to be NCAA)

[johum2886]

Forgot these ones

• a start today feature (similar to Madden and NBA)
• region accurate names (no more Travis Tootoo from Austria, Tiny Zinger from Hungary or Manny McNeely from France)
• accurate region prospect generation
  • CAN/USA/SWE/RUS/FIN/SWI/SVK/CZE make up ~97% of draftees since 2010, but in NHL games they are consistently between 80-85%

[VeronicatheCD]

What?  They did an excellent job?  Have you actually played the game or are you going off of the promotional videos?

[johum2886]

@VeronicatheCD no i'm well aware the only addition was the custom leagues which i'm hearing are not great

[VeronicatheCD]

They also removed most of the presentation, the new on ice light shows and national anthems rarely trigger, and they took away the ability to edit strategies (while adding new strategies and giving online players the ability to save them for quicker play).  This was all intentional and not a bug.

[johum2886]

@VeronicatheCD cannot say i am surprised whatsoever

[kyl_35]

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@VeronicatheCD wrote:

What?  They did an excellent job?  Have you actually played the game or are you going off of the promotional videos?

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I took that as sarcasm 

[johum2886]

@kyl_35 especially considering that the second sentence of the post says that I have yet to buy the game

[IrishOwl]

@VeronicatheCD Even though you could edit strategies, they did nothing to effect game play. I ran multiple simms, and never saw a difference. Besides the coaches are pretty much worthless since the X-Factors appeared. You can have a Snp/Ply/Pwf with 12 green checks and 3 yellow dashes (which I have) and I still get a +0, but I've got a Snp/Twf/Ply with tape to tape and make it snappy with 5 red x's 7 yellow dashes and 3 green checks and still they get a +5. Its all about the X-Factors now.

@johum2886 I'm in agreement with you on most of this post, but they did a good job mixing the line strats. I got a bunch of balance, holds, pinches, cycles, and shoots in this draft class.

The names don't bug me so much, I mean culturally names appear everywhere anymore. So, you could be a Tootoo from Austria becuase people move countries alot anymore.

[johum2886]

@IrishOwl true, but my gripe is with the fact that there is not a single ethnic Austrian, French, Lithuanian or Italian name (simply to name a few)