While EA has yet to release an official statement regarding the problem users have found success with two bandaid solutions -- which point to cache problems in the game. According to the EA Forum users clearing the cache of the Xbox 360 and disabling the auto-save feature in NHL 09 may help fix the problem but as gamers play more of the game the issue returns.
Let's hope we'll get a fix for the game soon. Actually, it's cool. We'll just play our 82 game seasons in one sitting. No, really.
Update: EA Sports actually responded to this issue late last night recommending the cache clear route as a possible solution. They have yet responded to the cries for a patch.
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
9-14-2008 @ 3:00PM
Brian said...
First!
L)
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9-14-2008 @ 10:20PM
Pixelantes Anonymous said...
Ah, the old "delete your cache and everything will be ok" placebo.
Remember folks, whenever someone tells you to do this it's a sign that they have no idea what the hell is wrong, but they want you to think that they do.
Frankly I find it a little bit surprising EA still tries this crap on anyone. XB3F, do us a favor...next time some clueless game company lies to you like this, call them on it rather than just report their lies as some sort of miracle cure.
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9-14-2008 @ 11:39PM
Mal F4cti0n said...
I have been saying this for....god, five years now....if the trolls/zombies/troglodytes would just stop buying the new, yearly roster updated games, maybe EA would be forced to make a good, bug free product that was worth my 50 or 60 dollars.
Please, boycott EA sports games for one year and show them they need to please the consumer.
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9-15-2008 @ 2:37AM
MrViznasty said...
if you knew anything about this years nhl 09 maybe you wouldnt of said your comment. Nhl 09 has something a sports game has never had so its not just an updated roster.
9-15-2008 @ 10:12AM
Mal F4cti0n said...
@MrViznasty,
While you may be right about great new features in the game (I will believe you), this post shows that the product should not have have been shipped to consumers as it is broken. If no one buys next year's version (nhl 2010) because this year's was so broken, maybe EA will take the time to fix bugs before they ship 2011's version.
But....I can dream, can't I? ; )
9-15-2008 @ 5:44AM
ThomasJay said...
It's not like the bugs are confined to just the sports titles. Pretty much everything I've played from EA within the past year or two has had something annoyingly wrong with it. They need to seriously rethink their quality assurance process.
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9-15-2008 @ 7:47AM
Intangible 360 said...
How does a bug like this not get caught? It seems nigh impossible that this could have been overlooked.
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9-15-2008 @ 9:08AM
Ujn Hunter said...
i've played online games daily... and be a pro season mode daily... and have yet to have any problems whatsoever... i don't think it's the game... it may be the disc, or the console... considering it only hits some people. also... NHL 09 is the sports game of the year again... ;)
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9-15-2008 @ 10:30AM
Romo SBC said...
Well...I reported this bug awhile back in the EA forums and although EA has yet to come out with a fix, this only affects certain users with certain 360's/hard drives.
I had an original launch 360 hard drive. After going through 3x360's due to RROD issue, my hard drive followed me the whole time.
All 2008 EA titles would freeze up on me...Madden, NHL and occasionally Tiger. I recently upgraded my 360 to the falcon chip version which I bought 6 months ago. I kept my original hard drive to avoid having transfering all of my content since both HDD were 20GB. When I purchased the new Madden09 and found that this game kept freezing on me at the identical spot as the 08 version, I knew something wasn't right considering I had a new 360. Ahh...but my hard drive was still the same from my launch 360.
If I would clear cache, it would sometimes let me get past where it usually froze, but would freeze up again eventually and I was stuck not being able to continue playing the game.
Last month, to prove a point about this issue which I logged in the EA forums, I went out and bought a new hard drive (120GB), transferred all of my content, and all of my freezing issues went away. This is why certain users have no issues and others do. Not sure if thsi is an EA problem or MSFT problem, but I'm problem free now and that's all that matters to me!
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9-15-2008 @ 11:52AM
Pix said...
Huge mistake by EA... I loved the demo and was about to get the game this week. Now with this news I am sure I won't get it until they fix this.
... and usually when I don't get a game when I had it planned I don't get it at all... so if more people do this then EA has lost a lot of costumers.
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9-15-2008 @ 12:10PM
Jimmy P said...
This is the same problem they've had with their games last year. It seems to only be an issue in franchise or dynasty modes. It's still frustrating, and why EA is the only game maker that has a problem is even more frustrating
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9-15-2008 @ 1:30PM
Jimmy James 70 said...
Dudes, don't worry about the new version. Just trade for NHL 08. I wrote about it here:
http://thegoozexreport.blogspot.com/2008/09/hockey-for-360.html
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9-15-2008 @ 2:14PM
nick said...
I am have extreme problems with this hockey game. I first thought that the game could be bad.; however, after my third replacment disc i found that i am not the only person with this "disc read error". I then tried the quick fix. No Joy! Problem came back the next day. Even when the game worked i could not play a good game online. This game needs some serious work. EA needs to fix this problem quickly.
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10-08-2008 @ 1:39PM
Shawn said...
It was awesome, it didn't load for the first 15 minutes I tried. Then randomly it worked! Then froze again. Then kinda worked! Shortly after I gave my box a rest and came back a few days later. Now, without ever having a load problem with any other disc, after the NHL 09 debacle nothing loads. Could this widespread disc error have been just the nudge my elder xbox needed to put it out of commission? I guess generally my question is, could a disc have really knocked my xbox out or is it more that I just happened to buy a bogus game right as my xbox was bound to die on me sooner or later?
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