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Banned
OVR: 1
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: atl
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Re: A Letter to EA and to all the community sites
i personally feel i have been ripped off. i am one of the loyal fans that has literally bought this game on, or before release every year since 1997. i was 13 years old then and i had played the previous bill walsh game and college football game the years before. i was also lucky enough to have an older family member introduce me to madden when i was only 7 years old. i have many memories playing madden 92 and can recall trying to get everyone injured to bring out the deadly ambulance. i spent my entire youth, ages 8 to now, giving every single ea title a chance, every single year. i buy tiger, i buy madden, i buy ncaa, i buy mma, i bought college baseball, i bought nba, i bought march madness, i buy fifa, i buy nhl and i would say i have dedicated 95 percent of my 20 years of gaming strictly to ea titles.
the last 3 years, i have just become absolutely disgusted by the way im treated as a loyal customer to this MEGA ENTITY. all customer service has seemed to just fall through the cracks and ever since the announcement was made years ago that ncaa and madden would become exclusive titles, we have been given nothing but half hearted attempts and minor game tweaks being sold to us as breakthrough's in gameplay. we are also resold features that were available to us in previous versions of the game, some dating back 5+ years.
i tell myself every year i will not buy this companies products to send a message, then i am suckered into the hype machine that offers nothing but broken promises, edited and controlled reviews, old features being resold and promises that past bugs/glitches have been addressed. every year i find myself buying into this and exhausting all routes to score a copy of ncaa early. every year when i first put that game in and fire it up, the excitement level is amazing, the fun had is unmatched by any other game i have ever played. then, about 12 hours in, i realize it's the exact same game with the smallest of small tweaks, that either negatively affect something else or completely take away an element of realism.
i was ready not to purchase this year, and coaching carousel and custom playbooks were introduced. i have been waiting for a coaching carousel since 989 had it in their terrible college football game ncaa gamebreaker in 1998. i have waited 13 years for a college football game to give us the option to actually grow a coach, since were essentially coaching little fictional teams. well, as you can imagine, within 4-6 hours of diving into dynasty and simming a season, the disappointment was overwhelming when i quickly realized this feature wasn't going to work, and in typical ea fashion probably wouldn't work for at least 2 years. then i realize custom playbooks are broken, then i realize the promised removal of suction blocking and route mirroring was nothing more than a flat out lie.
ea and tiburon have completely alienated everyone who supports them, while offering us nothing but lies. i dont know what else to call it when producers and developers do interviews and promise things are gone, like suction blocking, only to find them withing hours of playing the game. they dont fix anything that they know is broken, they just tweak something else to cover that up. just like a pathological liar, when you start with a small lie, then add 20 more lies on top of the first one to try and cover it up, things are going to come crumbling apart. this is how ea has built their engines. they start with a good concept, then instead of actually fixing anything, a cover up is added that tries to take attention away from the issue. when you add 15-20 of these little programming cover ups to a broken product, how do you not understand that eventually, all of these cover ups are going to lead to a complete engine failure? where one coverup screws up another, then another, then another, and before you know it....none of the features work and things that use to work become useless.
at this point in the game, here is my overall view of the ea team and the ncaa series:
liars, theives, failures and bullies.
they lie blatantly to hundreds of thousands of us for 4 to 5 months out the year, hyping things they know dont work and offering new incredible features that dont work. they also offer promises of fixes, which always in turn breaks something else or doesnt even work as intended.
they literally steal from us every single year. theyre like a bad seller on ebay who sends you half of what you paid for then refuses to refund or return product. they coax us into giving them our money then refuse to fix anything or make anything right or offer some sort of refund for a game that is widely documented as a fail.
fail. this word is overused, but it works here. how the hell does a company full of smart, intelligent brainiacs sit back, overlook the problems of their work and not make one effort to address them? this to me is a fail. if i reviewed my work and allowed it to be released blatantly incorrect and told my boss i fixed something only to have it wrong, repeatedly, i would be jobless.
bullies. this article describes one hundred percent what they've done to competition and anyone who voices concerns about ncaa for the better of the community. their is no respectable ncaa site that just attacks and tries to hurt ea's business. every negative article written abotu the game or the company is written with the best of intentions to warn consumers about potential flaws. consumers that ea should care about in the first place.
this company has become shady in the way it treats the loyal customers, fortunately for ea, there's no other company to even consider for a competitive football game.
Last edited by voltool16; 09-15-2011 at 09:09 AM.
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09-15-2011, 07:19 AM
