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    IMPORTANT UPDATE: ECL ’26: Winter - No New Ability & build Bans

    Edit: No changes have been made to the Ability & Build Bans. Based on your feedback, League administration has decided to revert the planned changes.

    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.

    For the most current information on the Ability and Build Bans, see this article:

     

     

    For transparency, you can still read the original article quoted below, but please know that this decision has been reverted. 

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    NOTE! This information is not accurate anymore and is only available for transparency for anyone who missed the original story!

    Hi Gamers,

    It has come to our attention that Abilities available in the last WOC season Battle Pass are no longer unlockable via player progression and are instead locked behind a paywall. After investigation, we found that the progression via the Battle Pass was incredibly slow, and this, coupled with the amount of games played through private password games, meant that very few players would have unlocked the Abilities.

    As such, to reduce the possibility of our tournaments becoming in any way “pay-to-win”, these Abilities (as seen below) will be banned for any upcoming games this season.

    While we do not want to bring in changes midseason, we felt that this situation warranted a response from the League Administration, and we have passed on our decision to EA as a form of community feedback.

    • Elite Quick Release
    • Elite Second Wing
    • Elite Quick Pick
    • Elite Showstopper
    • Elite One Tee
    • Elite Ankle Breaker
    • Elite Recharge

    Note: these bans are not a reflection of the strength of the Abilities and should not be taken as such

    Due to the urgency of the matter with the Playoffs starting, the rulebook does not yet reflect these new changes, but will be updated with the new Ability bans by the end of the day.

    Additionally, due to these bans, previously announced bans, and the way EA has handled the X-Factor system, we are penciling in a full ban on the Abilities for the next season this year.

     

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    imosi

    If you have to make this change in the middle of the season why wont you ban all elite abilities then to make it fair? There is absolutely no point just banning certain abilities. 
     

    Elite stick em up is also a pay to win perk? Elite backhand is very broken. Elite sponge the same.

    You can make a glitch goal with elite backhand shooting from the boards. Goalie goes to some weird animation..

    So while your at it. Ban all the elite perks from skaters and goalies!

     

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    iSvamp
    2 minuter sedan, imosi säger:

    Why wont you ban all elite abilities then? 
     

    Elite stick em up is also a pay to win perk? Elite backhand is very broken. Elite sponge the same.

    You can make a glitch goal with elite backhand shooting from the boards. Goalie goes to some weird animation..

     

    This time at least they did not write that they "listened to the community" and turn it into a lie.
    Now they just did what they wanted without asking anyone.
    You have to give them that. This was the most honest post in years!

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    pakjiz
    4 minuuttia sitten, imosi kirjoitti:

    Why wont you ban all elite abilities then? 
     

    Elite stick em up is also a pay to win perk? Elite backhand is very broken. Elite sponge the same.

    You can make a glitch goal with elite backhand shooting from the boards. Goalie goes to some weird animation..

     

    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.

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    1mmu9
    2 minuuttia sitten, tbnantti kirjoitti:

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

    kympin+kukaan ei pakota ostaan👍

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    tbnantti
    Just now, 1mmu9 said:

    kympin+kukaan ei pakota ostaan👍

    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. 

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    1mmu9
    1 minuutti sitten, tbnantti kirjoitti:

    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. 

    They are in chel store 10€/ability

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    iSvamp

    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.

    3 minuter sedan, tbnantti säger:

    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. 

    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

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    tbnantti
    2 minutes ago, 1mmu9 said:

    They are in chel store 10€/ability

    Must have missed it. 10€ per ability is even more insane. 

    2 minutes ago, iSvamp said:

    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.

    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).

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    iSvamp
    10 minuter sedan, tbnantti säger:

    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).

    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.

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    Pekedipeks
    34 minuuttia sitten, pakjiz kirjoitti:

    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.

    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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    tbnantti
    10 minutes ago, iSvamp said:

    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.

    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. 😅

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    BeastBenn14

    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.

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    iSvamp
    7 minuter sedan, tbnantti säger:

    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. 😅

    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.

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