Madden NFL 13 Title Update #2 Available Now (Updated to Include Full Details)

[kc10785]

Quote: Originally Posted by whaley

I'm a software developer for a living (albeit in server-side business middleware, which I'd argue is way simpler than platform game development). This game has only been released to the public for two weeks. Depending on the bug sometimes it takes that long just to reproducible bug, triage it, and get a patch for it and get it committed to the main code line. This isn't even counting manual QA and several other things that go into the release process. This stuff isn't easy. Chances are the stability fixes being mentioned are things that were causing actual loss of gameplay, crashing, major loss of functionality, but were only rarely occurring such that the risk of releasing the game with those bugs in there was small and they've probably been able to successfully reproduce and patch those critical issues. Developers aren't gods and can't just simply "write more code" to fix something. Give them a break in expecting something so soon. Of course, with this said, there are lots of warts (and CCM gameplay!) that really should be able to get patched in time for that bigger patch that people keep alluding to in 1-2 months. Realistically hold off on being disappointing until then. The fact there actually seems to be a somewhat predictable patch cycle shows that EA Sports actually does care here - I've worked in software shops that didn't care before and never bumped priority on things that caused loss of functionality for a minority of users and didn't plan a patch cycle accordingly.

THANK U!!!

[zionblitz21]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

All capitals appears as if you are yelling, ok? Moving along.

haha it was a joke bro lol

[brandon27]

Quote: Originally Posted by ProbieByKO

I just checked the Madden twitter Feed and they just posted that ccm rosters will not be posted until Friday the 14th.

So the week 1 rosters, come out for week 2? Great. With a lack of editing and custom rosters, the one thing EA needed to do was keep up with roster updates. They're failing miserably at that right now IMO. Sure we have the week 1 roster for play now, and that's fine because it came fairly quickly, but this update for CCM is really slow.

Glad to hear however, that the patch has apparently fixed the offline CCM scheme issues though. That's pretty important IMO.

[steamboat]

Quote: Originally Posted by brandon27

So the week 1 rosters, come out for week 2? Great. With a lack of editing and custom rosters, the one thing EA needed to do was keep up with roster updates. They're failing miserably at that right now IMO. Sure we have the week 1 roster for play now, and that's fine because it came fairly quickly, but this update for CCM is really slow. Glad to hear however, that the patch has apparently fixed the offline CCM scheme issues though. That's pretty important IMO.

Maybe they wanted to have the ratings reflect what happened on week 1 for CCM? Its weird cause another EA rep on twitter stated it would come out today.

[lon515]

Can someone tell me how to get the schemes to save because there still not doing it

[assclown25]

so just read review for NHL13 and they added CCM mode without taking out Franchise and editing players. Way to drop the ball Josh and crew, trading in M13 for NHL13. As big of a football fan as i am i cant handle this game without being able to edit or bring my own custom roster into CCM.

[CajunPunk]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

Everything about Madden 13 is what they said it would be...

So, the assisted tackles not being counted, bad late game AI play calling, time outs at 1:01, bad depth chart AI a few years into CCM, broken sliders, broken zone/man defense, schemes not saving, bad line play, etc. (almost all of which has been a problem for years) was to be expected?

I guess I should have read a little more.

My issue isn't with the modes but with the bugs that make the modes less fun year after year after year. Why that is so hard to understand is truly mind-boggling.

[steamboat]

Quote: Originally Posted by CajunPunk

So, the assisted tackles not being counted, bad late game AI play calling, time outs at 1:01, bad depth chart AI a few years into CCM, broken sliders, broken zone/man defense, schemes not saving, bad line play, etc. (almost all of which has been a problem for years) was to be expected? I guess I should have read a little more. My issue isn't with the modes but with the bugs that make the modes less fun year after year after year. Why that is so hard to understand is truly mind-boggling.

Depth Chart AI? I'm a little confused because I was sure that was working as intended (of course that leads to old running backs running well past there usefulness imo but *shrug)