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Thanks for the feedback Everyone. League Administration genuinely thought we were doing a good thing by this approach, but it turns out we were wrong. This most recent decision will be rolled back and no new bans will be put in place for this Winter season. Regarding the timing, we didn’t know the timing of the WOC seasons when scheduling the ECL originally. When the new season started this week, we were a bit surprised by EA’s approach and decided to make a quick decision. But as we’ve now learned, it was the wrong one. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your swift and honest feedback. As we said in the original news story, the plan is to move away from Abilities for the Spring season, as that seems to be what the majority is asking for.

No1 in our team had none of these since we only play pw games and dont pay for virtual abilities. So this is peukku (not the drug) from us. Or idk after reading we might have these abilities. idk dont care

But now you’re adding the pay-to-win angle to a situation where SG just banned things because you have to buy certain items now to use them, even though you had more than 8 weeks to unlock them for free. Meanwhile, you’re ignoring items that still can’t be unlocked anymore, but players could unlock them during Season 1. Why weren’t those banned when Season 2 started? It would’ve been pretty nice to not deal with Elite Stick ‘Em Up, which can make anyone look like Lidström in the defensive zone. The defensive X-factors still break the game more than the offensive ones do. Even I can admit that as a defenseman, even though I haven’t used Stick ‘Em Up at all this season and only recently tried Quick Pick. (I'm stupid) Everything is just weird. The arguments don’t hold for why this is being done. Anyway, I’m going outside to touch some grass now. Have a good evening, Antti.

Ban elite sponge also, it was behind the pay wall

Free RW/LW for upcoming tournaments.

Pay-to-win doesn’t mean you must pay. Amongst other things, it means you can skip the grind if you pay. I think it would be a good idea to let teams play with the abilities they want to if both teams agree to it.

The reactions are probably because nobody asked for this, but it’s happening anyway. If they had listened to the community, they would have banned everything before the season started. People have adapted their playstyles based on perks. There are even teams that actively “hunt” X-factors to trigger during their attacks. I also think it’s reasonable that some things get removed. I recently played another tournament without them and it was actually pretty fun. But there is no valid argument that it’s “pay-to-win”, because everyone could get these things for free. And there are still items in the game right now that were on the Season Pass in Season 1 as well. And I remember, for example, Furyan saying “make the choices before the season starts”, and those choices were made. But now they are changing things right before playoffs start, and it affects teams. It’s honestly pretty clumsy.

Amateur hour. Releasing this update two hours before playoffs starts... fck me sideways, cause I paid the other day for the quick pick trait. Back to black... truly a game changer.

u cant ban before a playoff wtf is this?

Weren’t the previous season’s XFs granted to everyone after the season? And it’s not me, I don’t care either way. I’m just confused about the community response as I would have assumed everyone would have been against pay to win. But I guess HUT has fried our brains in that aspect. 😅

Yeah even these selections are not making any sense. If i remember correctly, season 1 battle pass abilities were Stick em Up, Sponge, Post to Post maybe something else also(?) And like Svamp said above, AGAIN doing decisions without asking any opinions from community. And especially this timing?? LA knew since release of NHL 26 that there is abilities behind paywall/grind, so they could do this before season? No... Midway of the regular season? No... 1-2h before teams start their playoffs. 💀

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Just ban elite sponge also then ffs, simple as that...

Why are you flipping the argument the wrong way? Why should everyone who actually put time and effort into the game and their season be punished just because you did not? I have not seen anyone complain that another player has Elite Quick Pick just because they do not have it themselves. If you really wanted it, you had the same chance to unlock it as everyone else. If players did not care about getting it during the whole regular season, why should it suddenly become unfair now only because the “lazy” player now wants to be “smart”? If you want it now, you can buy it. If you wanted it before, you could get it for free.

Must have missed it. 10€ per ability is even more insane. Sure, everyone had time to unlock the abilities but that means they have had to not play password games and play the game enough to do so. Why would people need to be punished for not doing so? In what world does it competitively make sense you have to spend money to become better in the game? I think it would be better to ban them all at this point as well (which is the case for next season if I’m reading the post correctly).

Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game. So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors. But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs. Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game. So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors. But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs. Forgot to Quote Antti

They are in chel store 10€/ability

Just ban everything... But now!!! 🍿🍿🍿🍿time!

No i dont think so

It was ~40€ last I checked. Of course you’re not forced to buy anything or even add attribute points to your player but if superior abilities are locked behind a paywall the game becomes pay to win.

kympin+kukaan ei pakota ostaan👍

Big fail from gamer to ban something mid season and 90 mins before we start playoffs 👎

I’m confused about the community response. Having to pay 40€ for abilities is insane.

100%. By this same logic there are Elite perks from season 1 (like Stick Em Up for example) that are/were also ”locked behind a paywall” if you didn’t grind the Battle Pass for them.