NEW: NCAA 14 Interview w/EA Producer Ben Haumiller

[aksarben21]

Atlas VSN and Mr. Bill,

I just wanted to say thank you for fielding our questions and getting some answers for us. I understand you didnt have to do this but were gracious enough to do so and I appreciate it. The answers may not be what we wanted to hear but it is what it is. Thanks!

[RamsPackersRedskins]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrBill

He was pretty straight forward that the NCAA team didn't get all of the resources that they needed to do everything and that the focus was on gameplay. Teambuilder apparently is important to a small hardcore group of gamers but not the general public. Kind of how Online Franchise was treated after it launched and before Connected Careers overhauled it last year.

I wouldn't mind finding out the amount of hits the teambuilder site has had in 4 years though ?

[Gotmadskillzson]

SMH, people tripping over making an account that the man had no knowledge of was mistakenly changed ? Good lord, you do realize it is parts of OS itself you can't view without an account. Besides Mr Bill isn't the owner anyway, not like he knew something was different.

That would be like snapping on Millennium for something he didn't know Steve OS accidentally changed. Got to be nice to other websites guys. Sharing of information benefits us all. Can't be snapping on people and running people off over something so trivial as making an account, that was later said to been a mistake to require anyway.

[aksumite]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrBill

The VSN Arcade Podcast team had a chance to sit down this afternoon and discuss the upcoming release of NCAA 14 with EA Producer Ben Haumiller. I'll post a few bullet points on some of the questions that were answered tomorrow but in the meantime, here is the link to the podcast for those of you that are interested in what Ben had to say in response to the questions from the community. http://www.virtualsportsnetwork.com/...-Ben-Haumiller

MrBill,

I would like to thank you fine gentleman for asking BOTH of my questions despite the fact that I posted my final question AFTER the 12pm cut off point.

I listened to the entire podcast and it was great info.

I can't tell you how delighted I was that you actually got some great answers for me from Mr. H himself!

The first question I posted was when will we see this outrageous 12 user limit in online dynasty mode lifted? I long for the day we can have ALL teams user controlled. 12 is just ridiculously low.

Unfortunately, Mr. H began to brutally obfuscate at this point. I was saddened when he made it sound as if even on NEXT GEN we may not see an increase anytime soon.

I thank you for pressing him on this question.

My final question, which I thank you dearly for asking since I posted it after the cutoff, was will they be properly importing the draft classes to Madden 25' CCM mode....

I was happy you pressed him on this once again.

He said that technically, we should take this question to Mr. Josh Looman.

But he also went on to say that to the best of his knowledge, the Madden team did improve this process to some degree from where it was before..

This is great news for a lot of us.

I really hope importing draft classes works properly.

Thanks again for getting those answers.

Good work indeed, sir!

[moylan1234]

can anyone provide bullet points? I can't listen to the podcast

[Wildcats302]

Quote: Originally Posted by NateDogPack12

Wow. This clown gets contradicted by his own staff after being an ******* to someone. Even if I don't have to register, I certainly won't be visiting your site. What a ridiculous fool you've made or yourself.

Yeah...you are clearly a scholar with the language you used in your post. That was uncalled for and not wise considering the thread today about how easily one can be banned now.

Thanks to the guys for the interview, apologies that some people that post on these forums can be so ungrateful and hateful over a video game or issues surrounding it, no matter how trivial and minor it appears to the rest of us.

[PVarck31]

Keep this on topic from here on out.

[richmondn96]

Thanks very much for asking my question.

He said that we can use any stadium including bowl game stadiums for a neutral site game in dynasty mode. My only remaining concern is whether or not the field art will actually look like a regular game and not a bowl. Guess I'll just have to wait till July 9!