Re: Summer Storms: The NCAA Release Story
Exactly, and the reason why these games weren't roasted like '09 (outside of '05) is because outside of the dropped passes glitch there were weren't any "broken" items in the games. Sure, the momentum meter and impact player may have been blown out of proportion and too effective but that's the way EA intended for it to work, it wasn't broken.
As for the article, it is a complete slap in the face to the posters who come in here and put in a lot of effort to help make the game better and provide EA with what the problems are, basically making their jobs easier, yet are labeled as whiners and nitpickers in the article.
Those paragraphs are the biggest crock of BS I have ever read. Just look back over the history of releases on OS, when a game is good or great the masses will agree here. The base of OS vets only focus on the negative when they rightfully should, when it is overpowering the positives.
Do you really think guys like AA don't care about the game and want the game to be bad? Do you think he was waiting for July 15 so he could open his copy of NCAA and jot down every possible bug he could find and only focus on the negatives? The guy was more pumped than anyone on the damn boards before it came out. The second EA drops a great football game guys like him will praise the ever living hell out of it.
To think that gamers are focusing on negatives and not trying to enjoy the game when the basic foundation of the game is broken is such a load of BS. What if OS was the same as NCAA? The "submit reply" button worked once every five times you clicked it, the quote button simply never worked, when you voted in polls it didn't calculate the results properly, etc. Would you say, "Well, you can get in a post every once in a while so have fun with what ya got!"
So to quote the article one more time, yes, myself and several other people will continue to trust "Average Joe" in the forum when it comes to impressions, what else are we suppose to do especially after seeing blatantly biased articles like this on the front page of OS?
Exactly, and the reason why these games weren't roasted like '09 (outside of '05) is because outside of the dropped passes glitch there were weren't any "broken" items in the games. Sure, the momentum meter and impact player may have been blown out of proportion and too effective but that's the way EA intended for it to work, it wasn't broken.
As for the article, it is a complete slap in the face to the posters who come in here and put in a lot of effort to help make the game better and provide EA with what the problems are, basically making their jobs easier, yet are labeled as whiners and nitpickers in the article.
the fact that people who dislike something are more vocal than people who actually care about it. Because if you were on the boards during all the impressions, or should I say complaints, then it became a little trying. Several die hards proclaimed the game was busted and that they wouldn’t be purchasing this year -- mind you this was still before the game was even officially released. Glitch after glitch began to surface, and as more and more people received their games, the question was how could this be going bad again after things looked so bright and promising?
It shouldn’t come as a surprise though, reactions like these tend to happen when you mostly focus on the negatives. And with the masses getting the product and reporting on just the bad functions, overlooking any possibility of fun or happiness with the game, the forums became a bit of a downer to read.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise though, reactions like these tend to happen when you mostly focus on the negatives. And with the masses getting the product and reporting on just the bad functions, overlooking any possibility of fun or happiness with the game, the forums became a bit of a downer to read.
Do you really think guys like AA don't care about the game and want the game to be bad? Do you think he was waiting for July 15 so he could open his copy of NCAA and jot down every possible bug he could find and only focus on the negatives? The guy was more pumped than anyone on the damn boards before it came out. The second EA drops a great football game guys like him will praise the ever living hell out of it.
To think that gamers are focusing on negatives and not trying to enjoy the game when the basic foundation of the game is broken is such a load of BS. What if OS was the same as NCAA? The "submit reply" button worked once every five times you clicked it, the quote button simply never worked, when you voted in polls it didn't calculate the results properly, etc. Would you say, "Well, you can get in a post every once in a while so have fun with what ya got!"
So to quote the article one more time, yes, myself and several other people will continue to trust "Average Joe" in the forum when it comes to impressions, what else are we suppose to do especially after seeing blatantly biased articles like this on the front page of OS?
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