Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

[drugsbunny]

Listen, These schools cost 40-50,000 dollars a year to attend and these athletes get to go for free. Room and Board, meal plans and other perks. I am not buying this "not getting paid" nonsense that they are talking about. Ed O'Bannon had a mediocre life after college and now wants to ruin our fun. This "I didn't get picked so give me my ball, i'm going home" mentality is sickening to me. The AAA video game companies are all pu$$ies for not taking some chances with continuing with making these games. NCAA Football could have used fictional teams or D2 teams and still made it happen.

[mestevo]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

6 weeks since the release date announcement, still no news on actual development starting.

They're floating big ideas like working your way up from player to coach and working your way through the coaching ranks. I sure do hope that's a result of negotiating a statement of work with BigAnt or something.

Looks like they already know they can't host or facilitate sharing of rosters/uniforms:

@BIGw357 - Oh ok, will there be a option to upload teams and uniforms that we. can make on our own online, basically a teambuilder thing

@IMVGAMING - Not at this time.

https://twitter.com/IMVGAMING/status/1002384606333685761

[SilverBullet19]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

6 weeks since the release date announcement, still no news on actual development starting.

They're floating big ideas like working your way up from player to coach and working your way through the coaching ranks. I sure do hope that's a result of negotiating a statement of work with BigAnt or something.

Looks like they already know they can't host or facilitate sharing of rosters/uniforms:

@BIGw357 - Oh ok, will there be a option to upload teams and uniforms that we. can make on our own online, basically a teambuilder thing

@IMVGAMING - Not at this time.

https://twitter.com/IMVGAMING/status...84606333685761

I like the "work your way up" idea. Kinda like Coordinator to Coach in NCAA, but more in depth.

It's too bad you can't do a teambuilder type option, but it makes sense. If it does well, maybe colleges will jump back on board as long as rosters themselves stay generic. Bill Walsh College Football was generic too, and was still enjoyable.

[ElectricAggie]

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Looks like they already know they can't host or facilitate sharing of rosters/uniforms:

@BIGw357 - Oh ok, will there be a option to upload teams and uniforms that we. can make on our own online, basically a teambuilder thing

@IMVGAMING - Not at this time.

https://twitter.com/IMVGAMING/status...84606333685761

They better come out an make an announcement saying that. Many people who have donated to the game thought that you would be able to create real NCAA teams even if the game doesn't ship with them since they essentially promised that beforehand. The fact that the only way we now know that Gridiron Champions won't do that from a single Twitter reply is pretty ridiculous.

[mestevo]

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I like the "work your way up" idea. Kinda like Coordinator to Coach in NCAA, but more in depth.

It's too bad you can't do a teambuilder type option, but it makes sense. If it does well, maybe colleges will jump back on board as long as rosters themselves stay generic. Bill Walsh College Football was generic too, and was still enjoyable.

Yeah, easily my favorite part of NCAA was bouncing around schools as coordinator and coach over the course of my career and I hope we get that in Madden one day once the requisite depth (coordinators) is there.

They better come out an make an announcement saying that. Many people who have donated to the game thought that you would be able to create real NCAA teams even if the game doesn't ship with them since they essentially promised that beforehand. The fact that the only way we now know that Gridiron Champions won't do that from a single Twitter reply is pretty ridiculous.

It's likely referring specifically to them having some form of online team builder. I expect customization will be there, the ability to share it easily I expect will be a very big part of their statement of work negotiations with a developer/publisher.

[canes21]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

All I get from that reply is they won't have a Teambuilder replica. It would shock me if they didn't have customization that mirrored Big Ant's other games and the ability to share all user created content in those games.



That is, if the game ever comes to light.

[MDSavageBeast]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

Something that somewhat turns me off from this game, or at least the developers, is that when you criticize them, their panties get in a bunch. I personally am not a fan of their idea of working from High School coach and on up because I feel like (at this stage) they don't need that stuff. Just make a functioning football game first before adding icing to the cake.

Basically, I told them that and they were like "We have to make our game stand out." In my eyes, the fact that you're making a CFB game already makes your game stand out. Now just do the simple things well lol.

Also, another thing that turns me off, is that they tend to have typos in their tweets and marketing promotions. Attention to detail stuff like that matters in video game production. 2K and EA wouldn't be making those mistakes so consistently.

[mestevo]

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Thankfully these guys are just the middle men. They're basically just looking for someone to make a game for them w/ their money.

No developer signed yet, and are going to the 'it's premature to talk about it until something is signed' well after their hyped up 'we've got Bigpoint - if we get the money' announcement last year.

[Unlucky 13]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

Thankfully these guys are just the middle men. They're basically just looking for someone to make a game for them w/ their money.

No developer signed yet, and are going to the 'it's premature to talk about it until something is signed' well after their hyped up 'we've got Bigpoint - if we get the money' announcement last year.

So basically, they have the idea to make the game, but not the knowhow or the money themselves? How does that make them any different from the rest of us then?

[boxboy99]

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So basically, they have the idea to make the game, but not the knowhow or the money themselves? How does that make them any different from the rest of us then?

It doesn’t, these guys have been clowns from day 1. No developer has any reason to work with them unless they completely deliver on funding. Even then, a developer is going to sit them down and slash half their ideas at least initially. They have no idea how development really works. It’s laughable anyone news outlets reported a 2020 release date based on an idea without even a basic prototype.


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[mestevo]

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So basically, they have the idea to make the game, but not the knowhow or the money themselves? How does that make them any different from the rest of us then?

They are basically running a multi-year Kickstarter to have someone else make a game for them, but they don't have that someone lined up yet. Until that happens and they have that statement of work agreed on I'd take any feature suggestions or expectations with a grain of salt.

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[SilverBullet19]

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So basically, they have the idea to make the game, but not the knowhow or the money themselves? How does that make them any different from the rest of us then?

It doesn’t, these guys have been clowns from day 1. No developer has any reason to work with them unless they completely deliver on funding. Even then, a developer is going to sit them down and slash half their ideas at least initially. They have no idea how development really works. It’s laughable anyone news outlets reported a 2020 release date based on an idea without even a basic prototype.


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Not to mention they supposedly used some of the money to get a graphic artist to do renderings of their player models...yet they don't have a game yet. So they're saying "here's the player model" when in reality it should say "we don't have a develop and have no code or anything written...but this is what we HOPE to make the players look like"

[Unlucky 13]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

Sheesh! I was thinking that these guys were either

A) A few rich guys with the desire to make a new college football game who were trying to hire game designers to get it done

or

B) A few experienced game designers with the experience and training to make the game, who needed funding

But they're just a couple of dudes with neither? Pretty stupid that they even got anyone's attention then.

[boxboy99]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

Sheesh! I was thinking that these guys were either



A) A few rich guys with the desire to make a new college football game who were trying to hire game designers to get it done



or



B) A few experienced game designers with the experience and training to make the game, who needed funding



But they're just a couple of dudes with neither? Pretty stupid that they even got anyone's attention then.

Their first video ever was terrible. If I recall, it was a guy talking into a phone behind a strip mall and you could hear a bunch of wind. Yup, it’s dude with no experience other than they want someone to make a game. They have a few ideas, don’t we all. They have a few mock up. And they are trying to get funding. Wouldn’t be shocked if we never hear another word about this project. Or maybe someone will get bored in a few months and reveal more meaningless details.


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[drugsbunny]

Re: Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

I just hope the company remembers that without a NCAA License, they are not bound by NCAA's oversight and can take chances on things that really immerse the gamers. We can have helmets flying off, and grade tampering options if a player is in danger of failing a class. There is a huge need for some RPG elements built into a sports game to keep things moving forward. I should be able to build a program with boosters and rich alumni that can help recruit top tier talent. Choose a coach or an AD with benefits that affect gameplay. If you have School spirited AD verses a more financial minded AD, School Impact: If your school is supportive of your football program or not so much can affect money therefore, you may not be able to recruit that big name star. The more you win, the more lose, the more these things are affected. Just a few ideas, I have many more... :-D