Patch imminent..?

[dalecooper]

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/1441062.page

Deserves its own thread I think, just so people are aware of this. I hope this is for real. The post seems legit enough. I kind of doubt it's coming yet today or even tomorrow though - these things take time to deliver.

[Reggie16]

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Idk if i believe it. since when has EA done something like this. i smell BS

[dalecooper]

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Idk if i believe it. since when has EA done something like this. i smell BS

If you wish upon a star...

[Rebel10]

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COpy pasta for people not interested in clicking thru to another site:

Just got off the phone with customer support Ryan, who was very nice and helpful.....(FYI, like most companies, EA uses a call center not associated with them for customer support, which also runs their online forums apparently)

He apologized for the problems and said that EA didn't expect the popularity of this years game. He said it far exceeded the initial players from last year, which is why there are so many online issues.

He said two that they just received a company wide email saying that the patch was due by "end of day" which means 6pm central time. The said it should fix some of the major problems such as progression.

He said, and this was just his opinion, that EA always gives a brighter forecast for the update then what usually occurs and that his guess would be that the patch would actually out between midnight and tomorrow afternoon.

He put me on hold for about ten minutes, and when he came back he said that he just spoke to the people running the forums and that they had an onslaught of activity which is why they haven't been updating. He said that the call center has received tons of calls and that the online administrators were going to give some announcement on the EA forums, and hopefully this would alleviate some of the calls that they were getting.

Anyway, I'm not saying this is rock solid, absolutely true information. Just what I was told and he sounded credible and honest.

Just wanted to pass this along so we have some idea of what to expect.

Also, from posts on the EA forum I read that Madden 08 I believe had some problem regarding progression, and it made you start a new dynasty after the patch. Again, just info and not necessarily 100 percent accurate.

Sounds good, but I'll take this all with a grain of salt. I doubt we'll see a patch for well over a week, and that will probably be when we first "hear" about a patch in the works. From that point, it takes testing, and the all important approval process from Microsoft & Sony. I hate to be pessimistic... but I'll lay an egg if I boot up my console this week and am prompted to DL an NCAA 2011 patch. The dynasty recruitment bugs didn't hit critical mass until this week... there were rumblings of it a week+ ago, but it didn't become the focus of forum discussions until the last few days. Also, the issue is deeper than just progression... It's rosters, it's ratings, it's AWR, it's roster management... they're all related to one another in some way, but can't be captured with just a single term.

[dshill]

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I'd like for this to be true. But I don't think it is. The game will get patched eventually, just hopefully before I hit the offseason in my dynasty.

[dalecooper]

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Also, the issue is deeper than just progression... It's rosters, it's ratings, it's AWR, it's roster management... they're all related to one another in some way, but can't be captured with just a single term.

Right on. I keep referring to it as the progression/recruit ratings issue, because it's all one convoluted bowl of spaghetti. Personally I think both need patching in different ways, but they have to be careful not to overdo it too.

[MattUMD224]

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We didn't see a progression fix until October last year.

[dalecooper]

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We didn't see a progression fix until October last year.

I don't think the squeaky wheel was squeaking loudly enough to get greased last year. This year the issue has consumed this board, IGN, and the EA forum, and tons of people have been calling, e-mailing, and live chatting support about it. I don't know exactly how it was last year, but if anything would get their attention it was the conflagration of complaints that has been roaring the last week.

[Pull n Pray]

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The things that are wrong with dynasty are very blatant. People on here often ask, "how could they not know about this bug? Don't they do any quality testing?" or something to that effect. And I think they probably do know about the bugs and release the game anyways because they have deadlines to meet. They've probably been working on fixing dynasty progression (and many other issues) since before the game was released.

This game has a ton of annoying bugs. But you can tell that a lot of effort went into it. I'm confident that things will get fixed.

[Deegeezy]

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I pray for two things:

1.) this thing about the patch being out tonight or tomorrow is true (not likely)

2.) us being able to apply the patch without having to restart dynasty

If #2 happens, I think I would be done with the game altogether.

[19]

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Even if the patch is "imminent", it still has to be certified, which is usually a 2 week process. Just sayin...

[DrPhibes]

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Perhaps what he meant to say is that there will be an announcement for a patch within the next couple of days. No chance an actual patch is released on such short notice (unless EA knew full well the progression problems existed and they just shipped the game off while in the mean time *the last 2 weeks* fixing the problem)

Doubt we see anything, but it is a little hopeful I suppose.

[TripleCrown9]

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Makes me glad I never play online or play dynasty. I just play offline with friends and the computer. I like the idea of dynasty, but stuff will always be busted.

[Wilson16NCSU]

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I'd like for this to be true. But I don't think it is. The game will get patched eventually, just hopefully before I hit the offseason in my dynasty.

That may not matter if it is like Madden 08 and you have to start a new dynasty to have the patch actually work.

[Rebel10]

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I pray for two things:

1.) this thing about the patch being out tonight or tomorrow is true (not likely)

2.) us being able to apply the patch without having to restart dynasty

If #2 happens, I think I would be done with the game altogether.

I could live with it with #2.. I could go either way. If they do patch it, I could live with them patching it for all future seasons in current dynasties. It wouldn't be perfect and you'd have some real weird scenarios (ie, 3* HB freshman who is better than a 4* starting Junior HB), but after about 2 or 3 seasons, it'd all even out... And you could pretend in your head that in 2011 - 2014 there was something in the water in the US, and every athlete performed below their talent level

Or, if EA switched things and made it only take effect for new dynasties, I could live with that, honestly. I'll be playing this game for a long time if things are patched correctly.