NCAA Football 12 Title Update #2 - Waiting on Approval From Microsoft and Sony

[Strings74]

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Because people overestimate what these boards do. Honestly your going to see the devs around here around February until about June, then the week of the release then they won't be back. Not to mention, people forget EA devs are working. When they have a flame on their *** are they going to be going on message boards when their bosses could very easily be pushing through that they NEED to complete the patch, or section and have it out?

And at the other poster:
Also EA said they were aiming at a release at the end of August, obviously those words ended up biting Haumiller in his ***.

[K0ZZ]

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It's a new generation, hell there was a time when Demos was a way to get a game out, now your lucky to see a demo for games anymore. Sports games and occasionally other games. Hell they are releasing demos now, months after a game is released (Reach and Fable). it sucks but it is true, with all the enhancements, it's not worth them putting a lot of money into quality assurance as it is to push in that extra feature. Patches gave them that ability. It's a double sided sword in that sense.

[bcruise]

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Member when u never had to worry about patches for video games because they made the game playable out of the case? Good times...

Er...no, I don't. I remember a lot of sucking it up and dealing with problems that had no way of getting fixed. I also remember becoming a primarily PC sports gamer during the PS1/early PS2 era due solely to the fact that patches could actually be released for those games. With the later PS2 games I started getting back into console because companies (mostly EA) were losing focus on PC sports games.

[Sundown2600]

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Anyone else losing interest in NCAA due to the patch delay and Madden being out?

I'm doing a 3rd run on Mass Effect 2 on PS3. Sports games annoy me quickly because they come out every year with bugs that can't be addressed either properly or promptly or both, or they ship with bugs that the devs have no intention of fixing. I'm not tripping out too much though. I'm patiently waiting to see what the patch does.

On another note we need to realize what we are dealing with. These annual sports games will be like this every year and nothing will ever change. The devs just can't implement new and innovative ideas while at the same time improving on existing features without the game being messed up in some way. They just don't have enough time to do this without the game shipping with lots of flaws. We see it every year with NCAA whether it's broken fatigue, gray sleeves, broken progression, or whatever, but this year it just happened to be a nasty game freeze bug. That's why the heat is turned up so high.

[SECElit3]

I'm doing a 3rd run on Mass Effect 2 on PS3. Sports games annoy me quickly because they come out every year with bugs that can't be addressed either properly or promptly or both, or they ship with bugs that the devs have no intention of fixing. I'm not tripping out too much though. I'm patiently waiting to see what the patch does.

On another note we need to realize what we are dealing with. These annual sports games will be like this every year and nothing will ever change. The devs just can't implement new and innovative ideas while at the same time improving on existing features without the game being messed up in some way. They just don't have enough time to do this without the game shipping with lots of flaws. We see it every year with NCAA whether it's broken fatigue, gray sleeves, broken progression, or whatever, but this year it just happened to be a nasty game freeze bug. That's why the heat is turned up so high.

That's awesome because I am going through my sixth. Mass Effect 2 is the game of all games and has tremendous replay value! Funny thing though, it is made by EA.... hmmmm

[hawkeyebred2332]

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That's awesome because I am going through my sixth. Mass Effect 2 is the game of all games and has tremendous replay value! Funny thing though, it is made by EA.... hmmmm

It's made by Bioware and published by EA, huge difference.

[Mo]

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Member when u never had to worry about patches for video games because they made the game playable out of the case? Good times...

What? I dont recall this at all.

Er...no, I don't. I remember a lot of sucking it up and dealing with problems that had no way of getting fixed. I also remember becoming a primarily PC sports gamer during the PS1/early PS2 era due solely to the fact that patches could actually be released for those games. With the later PS2 games I started getting back into console because companies (mostly EA) were losing focus on PC sports games.

Boom, Nailed it.

[Strings74]

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It's made by Bioware and published by EA, huge difference.

Dead Space and Dead Space 2 were likewise pretty awesome.

[Rancid Radio]

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Don't want to be a pain or anything, but can anyone tell me or point out a link where it shows everything the patch is going to do/fix? I've tried searching, but I suck at stuff like that and couldn't find anything other than fixing online dynasty..

[bucknut7]

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The lack of a patch is horrible, but what is even worse is that EA tweeted that they fixed the transfer fail issue today....and its not fixed!

[balcobomber25]

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I would agree with this post if it wasn't for games like NBA 2k, NHL 12, FIFA and MLB the Show. While these games do have minor problems none of them are as destructive as the two football games. The bigger problem is Madden and NCAA are cash cows for EA. The devs are forced by the board of directors to have the game out by a certain date whether it is ready or not. There is not a single game developer in the world who wants to release a crappy game, most times they don't have a choice.

[balcobomber25]

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Don't want to be a pain or anything, but can anyone tell me or point out a link where it shows everything the patch is going to do/fix? I've tried searching, but I suck at stuff like that and couldn't find anything other than fixing online dynasty..

Its on the NCAA 12 website under blogs, click on August. It lists everything from the originally announced. Apparently they found more while they were doing it though and what that was hasn't been announced.

[tpeserik]

I'm hoping somebody can help me here. We had some nasty storms last weekend & my personal internet was knocked out. The only internet access I have is the free stuff in my apartment complex. It isn't good enough to connect my xbox to live when I wire it in. I noticed there are sites that you can download the title updates from. The new NCAA update isn't uploaded yet. I have no idea what you need to do to get the update online or even if it's legal, but if anyone knows how & is willing to help me by uploading it onto a site like xbuc.com I'd really appreciate it. Otherwise I have to wait until next week. Thanks.

[Dr Death]

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I'm hoping somebody can help me here. We had some nasty storms last weekend & my personal internet was knocked out. The only internet access I have is the free stuff in my apartment complex. It isn't good enough to connect my xbox to live when I wire it in. I noticed there are sites that you can download the title updates from. The new NCAA update isn't uploaded yet. I have no idea what you need to do to get the update online or even if it's legal, but if anyone knows how & is willing to help me by uploading it onto a site like xbuc.com I'd really appreciate it. Otherwise I have to wait until next week. Thanks.

We're all waiting until next week... because they haven't released the patch yet.

[tpeserik]

What? I was under the impression it was out in the last day or two. Don't I feel stupid.