NCAA Football 10 Rosters Issue

[jp2]

Speaking from the perspective of someone who has been around awhile, and has worked for several Fortune 500 companies - goof ups like this, and FAR worse, happen all the time. They typically are addressed, and usually resolved, in some manner.

I'm more intrigued as to whether they will revisit the idea of being more involved with the NCAA gaming community though, at least in terms of message boards. Posters on this site and NCAAStrategies make up a tiny fraction of the folks who buy this game. I suppose I see a benefit for them during the early build process to get feedback, but after that, I'm not sure what they get from all this. Not only do they have bosses to answer to you, but they're getting an unrelenting beating from what seems to be a community of posters with the patience and tolerance of five year olds.

You think they haven't had last minute bugs in the past? EA has given the community more access and visibility into how these games are made....be careful what you wish for

[JoshCA916]

ok i guess i am a little confused as to what the real problem is, if the game hasn't gone gold they haven't started to mass produce the game as of yet so they won't be losing money on making all new discs. they are saying the game shipped with the wrong rosters but EA hasn't said the game has gone gold so i don't get that one. now as for issue if they update the roster file for the disk and bringing a TB team on the game would mess it up i am lost also because isn't downloading a TB team just like downloading somebody's roster from the EA locker and you making changes to it? i mean i know last year i had maybe 4 different rosters on my ps3 and you could change rosters when you saw fit. so can somebody please explain to me why this isn't an easy fix?

[Herky]

Quote: Originally Posted by jp2

Speaking from the perspective of someone who has been around awhile, and has worked for several Fortune 500 companies - goof ups like this, and FAR worse, happen all the time. They typically are addressed, and usually resolved, in some manner. I'm more intrigued as to whether they will revisit the idea of being more involved with the NCAA gaming community though, at least in terms of message boards. Posters on this site and NCAAStrategies make up a tiny fraction of the folks who buy this game. I suppose I see a benefit for them during the early build process to get feedback, but after that, I'm not sure what they get from all this. Not only do they have bosses to answer to you, but they're getting an unrelenting beating from what seems to be a community of posters with the patience and tolerance of five year olds. You think they haven't had last minute bugs in the past? EA has given the community more access and visibility into how these games are made....be careful what you wish for

I think the answer is simple. Hardcore gamers are being left out in the cold more and more these days. NCAA will still sell even if it's done half-assed and that's what counts for companies. Sales might dip, but I doubt the people on here mad about issues will hurt them much. Look at how bad Madden 08 was on next gen. It still sold.

Money makes the world go round and hardcore gamers (sadly) is not the main source of income for these companies. I like the developers being here, but they still have an agenda when they make games.

[Ziza9Noles94]

Quote: Originally Posted by bangpow

If blame is going to be placed on anyone, it's not the roster guy's fault. I'm sure there's a central place where all the files are stored and whoever's job it is to grab the current files to send to print is the one that messed up. Seriously, do you think that the roster maker would spend all that time making sure the rosters are as accurate as can be and then send the wrong file?

Probably an intern or someone's assistant.

[Ziza9Noles94]

Quote: Originally Posted by jbdeuce

I'm just going to say thanks EA dev team for trying to find a solution to the roster issue and I wish you well on correcting the problem. I for one am not panicking because I deal with issues in my life often. For example, my light bill might be due on the 13th and I don't get paid until the 15th, but my kid had a medical emergency that exhausted my light bill money on the 4th and its now the 7th. I have time between the 7th and the 13th to FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION. I could give many more examples but my point is this. The game did not RELEASE with the wrong roster, teambuilder did, and I didn't and am not using that feature. The EA team is aware of the problem and has time to find and implement a solution. So there is no need for me to get on this thread and complain. But if the game releases with F'ed up rosters.....I'll be opening up that can of whip a$$. So my comments are on ice until July 14th.

+1.

[nstod]

Quote: Originally Posted by jp2

Speaking from the perspective of someone who has been around awhile, and has worked for several Fortune 500 companies - goof ups like this, and FAR worse, happen all the time. They typically are addressed, and usually resolved, in some manner. I'm more intrigued as to whether they will revisit the idea of being more involved with the NCAA gaming community though, at least in terms of message boards. Posters on this site and NCAAStrategies make up a tiny fraction of the folks who buy this game. I suppose I see a benefit for them during the early build process to get feedback, but after that, I'm not sure what they get from all this. Not only do they have bosses to answer to you, but they're getting an unrelenting beating from what seems to be a community of posters with the patience and tolerance of five year olds. You think they haven't had last minute bugs in the past? EA has given the community more access and visibility into how these games are made....be careful what you wish for

It's amazing how the few of us who actually know how things like this work have a completely different response to the problem than the 15-17 year olds on the board.

If an SCM manager got fired for every screw up like this, the world would be void of SCM managers. And stuff like this happens on things much, MUCH more serious than a silly video game.

[RynoAid]

Quote: Originally Posted by nstod

And stuff like this happens on things much, MUCH more serious than a silly video game.

yup.. like in the Airbus A330 autopilot software source code...

[Boulton26]

I was very excited about Team Builder, and other various tweaks in the game.

But, simply put, if the game ships with bad rosters and the solution EA comes up with isn't acceptable, I won't be purchasing NCAA 10.

Current economic times are forcing people to make drastic changes to disposable income in their budgets. If NCAA 10 ships with a glaring issue, regardless of who did what and how it happened, INFORMED consumers will make appropriate decisions. The sad part is, which has been touched on before in the thread, is that many potential buyers won't know about the roster problem should an acceptable solution not be applied.