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Open question~ PATCH PHILOSOPHY
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07-02-2009, 01:40 PM | #41 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Re: Open question~ PATCH PHILOSOPHY
I see an advertisement on a Transformer for that says "Bumble Bee will play 10 different songs when I press the button...". I take my kid and buy this Transformer and when I get it home it only plays 7 songs. This product is broken and I am taking it back to the retailer for a refund or a new unbroken product. If they don't, then I am going to make the appropriate calls to the better business bureau. There are things that I can do. Unfortunately, in the world of software it is not that way. Laws should be written to protect consumers from faulty Software. Unfortunately, Laws are not written. EA being aware of the circumstances makes it even worse. NCAA 2009 was Broke... Field Degradation and Weather Channel were both Advertised features. These features didn't work. I will also argue that EA advertised a Collegiate football game. 4 Defensive linemen getting pancaked every pass play doesn't constitute a collegiate football game. That is more like a High School playing against a Middle School. EA new about this feature and did NOTHING about it. They said they would patch it, but didn't. The OL/DL made this an unplayable game. |
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07-02-2009, 01:48 PM | #42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Re: Open question~ PATCH PHILOSOPHY
The way I see it, if you guys can spend less time patching major bugs, that should give us a higher chance of getting other patches, such as community requested gameplay tweaks, etc into the game instead of simply fixing problems.
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07-02-2009, 01:49 PM | #43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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So don't call it broken because its not broken. |
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07-02-2009, 01:57 PM | #44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He messages me... "Bro, this game is about as broken a video game I have ever played." This is a person that hadn't played in forever. People do notice. That is why there is a trend of lower sales numbers. Again, in THE REAL WORLD... this game is broken. If the volume on a Sony Home Theater Receiver was broken would you take it back? That is reality. If the pass rush is Broke then the game is broke. I don't care about bugs, glitches, or whatever. That is all semantics. A bug or glitch means the game is broken. Last edited by hcopenhagenh; 07-02-2009 at 02:00 PM. |
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07-02-2009, 01:59 PM | #45 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I agree that the game is/was no where near as good as it should be, or even as good as previous generations. But it is going to an extreme to say it isn't even college football or that the game is unplayable. |
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07-02-2009, 02:00 PM | #46 |
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I think there should be a $10 or $15 price drop...i can't keep throwing out 60 bucks every year for an incomplete or broken game...just my opinion, i think if there was a price drop that would satisfy a lot of people.
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07-02-2009, 02:11 PM | #47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Code can be patched easily. Data is tricky. Content cannot be patched. Our cameras are not "hard coded," they are "data driven." So every camera in the game (gameplay, cut scenes, beauty shots, replays) has a data file that sets up the camera's position, its target, FOV, stuff like that. So we'd have to find out if we can include a new camera file via the patch. Assuming we could, the next step is determining how the end user will switch between cameras. There needs to be an option in a menu somewhere. This is part of our UI, which is conent and cannot be patched. However, some of our UI is driven by code so we might have a place to do that. There would certainly have to be some investigation done and designs written to patch cameras. It might not be feasible at all... we really wouldn't know unless we spent time investigating it. Who knows, maybe we already are investigating it? Sorry I don't have a clear yes/no answer. As you can see there are a lot of questions that all must come up as "yes" before answering yours. |
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07-02-2009, 02:15 PM | #48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I guess I am just old school. To me what your saying is unacceptable. This lacks customer service and putting out a quality product. I don't care how hard it is or how much code is written. If they can't produce a game that doesn't need a patch DAY 1 to play the game then it is BROKEN!!!! They shouldn't be manufacturing the game if that is the case. They should delay the release. What they are doing is poor business practice. Do you watch College Football? Someone on the DL does not get pancaked every play. NCAA 09 at least one got pancaked every pass play. THIS IS NOT COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!! EA is advertising a Collegiate Football Game and the OL/DL is not up to the level of collegiate football. There are other thing broken on this game also. |
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